VW ID.3

Didn't the emergency brakes not kick-in. Don't know if i'd trust it to be fair - worked with me one when on ACC but don't think it would kick in when driving normally?

Car definitely must have slowed. If he was doing 100km/h into a stationary vehicle there'd be a hell of a lot more damage then that.

As an aside, many, many years ago I did some advanced motor bike training, I had a K1100

one of the exercises was testing braking distances at different speeds.

We got set up on the Mullingar bypass at 06:00 one Sunday morning, dry road.

Instructor marked the stop line for expected stopping distance at 70 mph, x yards away from the first line we were to cross at 70 mph.

We all more or less stopped.

The next question was, if the stopping line was a truck across the road, and you cross the first line at 100mph, what speed will you hit the truck at?

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the answer is 70 mph, which we proved on test, and that is already knowing what was coming up!

No way he hit at 65mph: half mv squared and all that

If anyone wants to buy a slightly damaged 18" alloy wheel for an ID3, let me know. Might be some use as a spare I suppose.

Ordered a set of 4 for winter use, 2 arrived with terrible packaging with scuffs on them so I rejected.

The company have asked if I can dispose of the damaged ones to save them the bother of collecting.

Tempted to just keep the full set now as the 2 damaged ones aren't that bad but the replacement set are already on the way.

No probs. If I hadn't already ordered the new set I'd just keep all 4 current ones. But to send back the new ones I'd have to pay return shipping, plus I prefer the new set I think.

I can post up pics of the damage if you or anyone is interested. It's a Dezent TA black polished 18" wheel. Cost €165 each new.

I'll stick a link up in the EV parts buy and sell thread shortly.

*note it's the wheel only, no tyre.

No, just the one crashed 😀

Am I going mad or are they looking for more than the 1st retailed at brand new?

I use a wheelie bin. Filll it with water from a tap and wheel it to the car. Connect a short hose to the washer and the other end in the bin

Off the top of my head my 1st was €33/34k and then I got €1,100 back and €600 public charge credit so there's quite a bit of difference between what I actually paid and what they're looking for.

I actually nearly had the side of my car swiped off yesterday when another ID3 was in the wrong lane on the roundabout and tried forcing thier way across.

Got part 1 of 2.3 update yesterday. Loads of triangles with various symbols come and go. Some i know, stop sign, road curve, . Any ideas?

I got all the enhanced road signs after the first part also. But they vanished again after the second part..

But they appear again when I cross the border. Strange..

Finally got the second part of my 2.3 update the other day. Not sure how much I’ll notice the improvements (or even what they are) but just glad to get it out of the way. Should hopefully make future upgrades easier. The only thing I have noticed is that the id light flashes blue occasionally on the drivers side and I’ve no idea why.

And also, every time I get in the car there’s a notification that Internet radio is not available. Presume that’s because I’ve no data plan, but is there any way to stop the notification appearing? When I dismiss it it just reappears the next day.

The Id. light flashing is warning you of an upcoming junction ahead. The internet radio notification is a "feature" that we can't do much about..