VW ID.3

No don't think the dealer put on gardX or anything like that. They'd charge you for it and they didn't charge me.

Yeah I will have to go to Halfords in Carlow tomorrow to get Glass cleaner and clean the wipers, inside also had mad residue.

ID4 has normal wipers ? didn't know that but VW really should do a recall and fix it for right hand drive.

Below 7 deg C your Summer Tyres begin to loose their effectiveness and much more so when the road temps get lower, frost and ice is dangerous with Summer Tyres and snow not very practical do drive with.

Winter Tyres, as in proper Snow Tyres make a massive difference on Frost and ICE/Snow, can actually be the difference between able to drive or not depending on conditions.

Whether you think you need these tyres or not is up to you, we might have a cold winter, we might not, might only have frost in the mornings as usual and gone by 11am and if you live close to main roads that are salted then it might not be necessary unless there's lots of snow which is unlikely in out climate and if there is snow it's usually wet snow few cm in the morning and gone by 12 Pm but the thing is that our climate is highly unpredictable and we could have a colder than usual Winter to Hardly cold at all.

I don't intend to get Winter tyres and where I live if there's a Decent amount of snow on the road I'll just stay at home because the standard of driving in Ireland in snow is absolutely appalling causing chaos and chances are the roads won't be cleared so it's not worth travelling to me.

I live 4 kms to the M9 and can cope with Ice on the road, last year there was some crazy black Ice on my local roads and I managed in the BMW i3 which was difficult because you can't turn off the regen so at times it's like pulling the handbrake because the rear wheels locked up a lot so I had to be even more careful. At least with the VW ID3 I can turn off regen in D mode which will make it a lot easier but you need to play with the settings and turn off all the stuff that makes the car brake when it detects bad bends or junctions because it can brake pretty hard on it's own and you don't want this on ICE so time to figure all that out now before People start to drive on ICE for the first time with a Rear Wheel Drive EV it can be quite dangerous when not used to it.

Do you know what temp the battery heater switches off ? This shows, just like the BMW i3 that the battery heater function is only there to allow max regen and acceleration and of course protect it from severe cold in colder climates but it's just not for fast charging which is a disappointment.

No definitely doesn't try keep the battery at anywhere near 25 Deg, with ev notify I haven't seen the battery heater come on.

Battery temp when I got into the car this morning was around 9 Deg c and no battery heating which is fine for me as I was doing some local driving. But it would be a real nice feature to have it pre warmed prior to fast charging.

That's got me thinking now, perhaps the battery heater will come on when it knows it's at a fast charger ? Might take some time to warm the battery though from around 8 degrees.