VW ID.3

Picked mine up at start of October.

2.3 was installed at the factory, so don't know what's so special about your update that you still are in a "Queue"

Life Pro Model

I have no heat pump, just estimating battery temp from the ambient air temperature shown on car. (Should be similar enough on a sunless day when car hasn't been driven)

Others do have an OBD device which will show battery temp amongst other info..

I'm glad I bought when I did,

204 hp car for the price of 150

1800 euro difference in list price at the time.

And 0% pcp

Yes we have been lucky any of us who got cars over the last year or two. Not just EV's but also small economical ICE cars. My son recently sold his first car (Not traded in), a 2018 1L Astra which he owned for 1 year, back to the trade (For convenience) for almost what he paid for it.

And my missus has traded in her 2017 Ioniq (She bought it second hand almost two years ago) for a new Ioniq 5 in January. Has cost very little for her two years ownership, one service for €99, no other costs apart from Tax, Insurance and cheap lecky. (Incl some of my free VW allocation..😉)

Can't see it lasting though once production gets back to normal...

i dunno; great that it's not depreciating like a car normally would but part of me is tempted to get rid.

the efficiency is shocking at the moment. to give you an idea i drive about 180km a week if doing the normal commute.

i am having to charge the car (admittedly to 80%) as often as i had to charge the egolf - once a week. So i'm using about an extra 10kwh per week to do the same drive. and some part of that i can't even charge at night rate as the timer still don't work.

i saw a post from VW the other day about increasing range in the winter and to be honest i was mightily annoyed - drive in B mode, reduce cabin temp etc. stuff that would be reasonable 10yrs ago in a Leaf24 but not right now.

Hi, I charge every night up to 80% now in the winter to do my 120km return commute. I get home with about 36% whereas I was getting home with 47% in the summer. Doesn't bother me as the difference in cost is so little and I use that timer on the charger in the absence of a working timer on the car. The fact that night rate now starts at 11 means I could start it manually anyway. To put it into perspective, that extra 10kwh per week would cost me 89c on my current night rate. It's a lovely car, way nicer that the 182bhp Civic I replaced it with, and no more expensive for the Life model. Enjoy.

i assume you've done the 'turn the car on and don't engage drive' trick? look at your navigation screen, wait for your suggested destinations to turn green - this tells you that you're connected and receiving data on your 4G.

then look for your notifications and if it's still not there go into settings and software and look around there too.

and obviously don't install until you're back home!

If anyone finds an appropriate space saver, let me know.

I had a puncture a few weeks back. Fortunately the spray was able to sort it and get me home but I'd prefer a space saver especially for a long trip.

I'm a bit baffled by all the charging cards/programmes. There's eCars, WeCharge, EasyGo, Ionity and probably a few others. For someone who is mostly going to be charging at home and at work, what's a good option? I probably wouldn't want any kind of subscription plan because I've got the home/work chargers.