Make sure you get a charging cable and granny cable with the car, they should be standard but they sometimes get nicked from showroom cars. The granny cable will be your charger until you get a home charger sorted
Make sure they load the latest software onto the car in the garage. You can check it in the infotainment, if it's running the old software then don't hand over the balance until it's updated
B mode is most useful for town and country road driving, most people seem to prefer D for motorways as the car will glide when you lift off the throttle
Other than that, enjoy the car, you've made an excellent choice 😁
Put a deposit on a brand new id3 today. They have the life model in stock and I should pick it up next week. They were saying March/April next year for a 221. So I decided to get a 212. Any recommendations/tips re home charger, charging… driving style, (I found the b mode strange during the test drive), anything advice about the car really!! I’ll take everything on board.
I have the 1st edition,with 19" wheels. I got the repair kit and I have Goodyear self sealing tyres. Maybe drop in to your dealer and look for it. Should have been included.
Don't think the cars with 19" wheels get a repair kit. The tyres are supposed to be "self sealing" on small holes. I 'd like to have a back up plan though!
Did you not get the kit with it?
There's a compressor and a can of gunk... I'm going to hate to have to use it, but hopefully it'll get me out of a hole if I need it.
I did have a screw cause a slow puncture some time ago, and I had that fixed. Last week I got the low tyre pressure indicator again, but I know it's sometimes caused by a change in temperature. So when I checked the pressures and reset the system it sorted it out.
Another query for the ID3 owners! What is your strategy for punctures? I have always had a spare wheel. Not sure what to do…the car has Goodyear self sealing tyres (up to 5mm?). Should I get a spare wheel of some sort (takes up limited space) or some puncture repair kit in case I get stuck somewhere?
Feck I suppose we better sort out 2.3
There'll be word about the 3.0 update next week 🤫. Embargo in place until 3rd. November
You’re quite right, it refers to the We Connect Plus service in conjunction with the We Connect app. It’s hard to imagine (though not impossible!) that they won’t roll out the We Connect Plus services (as opposed to We Connect Start) on the We Connect ID app in the coming months. Maybe with car software revision 3.0?
Sorry just skimmed it, but is that definitely available for ID owners?
All of the app mentions seem to refer to the we-connect app. Not the we-connect-ID app.
Had an unfortunate day yesterday. Decided last minute to go to glendalough so I went out to car to load it. car hadn’t been touched since Friday so when I opened it was greeted by a horrendous smell. a piece of fish from the market had been left in over the weekend. It didn’t leak or anything but car smelled bad. We aired it out for a few minutes and brought out some coffee beans. Stinky car still preferable to stinky diesel. Set off with 80%. Glendalough was mental of course. By the time we got parked took kids out we discovered one needed a complete outfit change and in the fish hoohah we had forgotten to bring the changing bag.
back into the car and headed for Dunnes in cornelscourt to buy a change of clothes and went for a walk in cabinteely park instead. Both chargers there were in use. We had 40% ish left and one more stop to make. We could have made it home but decided to try public charging at kilcullrn services. 5 minutes there and we had plenty to get us on our way again.
car performed well for an unplanned longer journey fully laden. Delighted with the range of it and ease of use tbh.
and yeah it was a rubbish day but we all got home safe, sound and well so that’s the main thing.
Here is the full description of We Connect Plus services that will be available to ID owners at some point in the future, though not all services will be available in all territories.
https://www.myvolkswagen.net/weconnect/help/weconnectplus/weconnect_plus_en.pdf
No, you don’t need to.
you might be mixing it up with the need to unravel an extension lead fully when using a granny cable in case it overheats and melts... not required on the tethered charge points.
Are you not supposed to unravel the cable completely?
sounds like you need the longer cable as you don’t seem to have much to spare. As you said, you need slack otherwise it will be pulling on the charge port.
you can wrap some of the longer cable around the charge point so you are only dealing with the amount you actually use and as someone else said it gives flexibility on being able to park the car nose or rear in... that was my main reason for buying the longer cable as my wife won’t back the car in!
Some of the German forums have owners who are able to access the car. I’m not sure what they’re using (will ask).
There’s a guy who is trying to get Travel Assist working by changing the setting on his car (didn’t come with Travel Assist) and he thinks a software hack/update will do it. I thought you needed some additional camera for it but he seems to have it working .
Mind you, he did replace his steering wheel for another VW with actual buttons so he must know a thing or two.
My understanding is that ACC is completely independent from Lane Assist and Travel Assist and is not part of either of these systems. Cruise control is a separate functional system to lane monitoring and utilises radar as opposed to cameras (for lane monitoring).
Have a 5m one which means we have to reverse the id3 into drive to charge, a 7.5m cable would have allowed charging in either parking configuration. Unfortunately 7.5m wasn’t available on WallBox when I installed. If you want flexibility go for longer cable.
We need the 7.5 one but it would be nice if it were shorter when wrapping on holder at 6 am.
About to buy the VW charger, I can pick either 4.5m or 7.5m cable. Depending on what the electrician says when he starts drilling,
4.5m will easily do the job or probaby do the job with about 50cm to spare, assuming measuring with a 3core cable is comparable, but slack and give in the cable is hard to know.
Clearly 7.5m does it either way. But 7.5 is more cable to 'hide' and wrap up.
Any opinions from people who have chargers and having cables to manage?
Has anyone noticed that climate menu is not accessible when charging from ac (22kw charger in this instance). I presume its a new "feature" in 2.3?
Was having the car/internet connection problem this week , used the disconnecting and reconnecting Fuse 19 to fix.
The lane assist though is amazing. Really. Made a huge difference to my commute.
Yes you are right.
Lane assist includes ACC. You dont need travel assist for that, unless VW have changed that recently.
Travel assist has ACC from what I understand.
Re OBD Dongle.
I'm using my OBDeleven one it works perfectly.
OBDeleven recognised the car reads everything,inc HV battery it does not however allow you to do any coding ,run any apps ,switch on any features etc etc.
It won't even allow you to monitor live data/inputs etc.
This is common to ALL new VAG group cars it's called SDP or suchlike ( software diagnostic protection or summatt ).
There is no DIY programming tool available as yet for these cars,I doubt there's even a commercial option other than VAGS own diagnostic available.
If anything changes ROSSTECH/OBDeleven will be first out of the traps,but it's gonna be a LOOOOONNNNGGGGG time before we'll be able to just switch stuff on...if ever.
Alot of that is available in standard lane assist though.
Travel assist’s main thing is lane centering. If that’s important to you then fair enough but the rest is standard lane assist which all ID.3’s have, I think.
There are two types of boot liner available from vw. One is flexible and one of a more solid type. Got the flexible one myself. Nice fit.
Unfortunately Travel assist is not available even as an option on trims that doesn't have it.
As far as I can see the Executive, Tech, Max, Tour and Tour 5 have Travel assist.
If you can justify having it if you do lots of Kms like I do or just want to chill more on the motorway it's definitely worth having, I love it and would find it difficult not having it now. For my Commute along the M9 from Carlow to Dublin I hardly have to do anything just tap the wheel when it Bugs me and keep an eye on things and watch cars jumping lanes quickly and when traffic slows down fast from say 100 Km/hr to 50, don't trust it yet lol but it's better to be safe than sorry because the car can't see the traffic slowing ahead, it can only see the car in front but it works very well at slowing and coming to a complete stop in most circumstances.
In crawling traffic you don't have to touch the wheel at all from around 10 Km/hr and below. Once the car is stopped for 15-20 seconds you have to tap the accelerator to get it to move again, then it takes over.
It will be interesting to see if OTA updates change how it performs in the future.
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