VW ID.3

Unfortunately, 1st of July.

Well done on using up all the free credit. I tried really hard to get rid of all mine. Even randomly charging volvo's, e-tron's,ID4'S,e-golf's, etc. Still managed to leave about €85 on it. I just wasn't doing the mileage.

Anyway, on a completely different note, the phage has arrived in the house. Herself has had a positive antigen test this morning, so I'm off for 5 days as a close contact and we're both to get pcr tested today. Feel fine, booster jab last Saturday too. I felt it was inevitable. That's Christmas f**ked now anyway.

My dealer is trying to upsell me on a service package at the moment. In year 2, it's €300 for a service, pollen filter/brake fluid change and a wash and vac.

Is it worth it? I'm used to only spending about €120 on my eNiro service yearly and never got a pollen filter/brake fluid change.

When I picked up in August, the basic service pack had been added to the base price. You could still upgrade to the premium version for another €350 or so.

The premium package is well worth it as it includes a set of tyres.

Fair enough, I do about 25k a year.

That said I've seen folk in the UK reporting worn out tyres after 6k miles. The Bridgestones that come with the car are not highly rated.

What is the name of the service plan he is selling?

it should be S, M or L

the items you list are “required” as per the cars service schedule so you need to weigh up the cost of paying upfront via the service plan vs trying your luck at 2yrs by pricing around. I’d be betting it will be easily €300 for all those items in a VW garage.

At that rate we would have given Kia €360 per year on our milage €120x3 every 15,000km which is ridiculous - or €720 over two years.

If your not feeling the service pack get them to take the €300 off the total price. Think we left it included as it’s one less thing to worry about in 2023 …wait, it’ll be 2024 with the current delays ))))

I got to try out the 150kW eCars charger in Manor Stone Services (Ballacolla). In theory the ID.3 should be able to pull 100kW from that given the right conditions.

I took some other motorway stats from the trip too.

It was 11°C outside and a miserable rainy night but I had a 20km/h tailwind

I pre-heated the car and the battery was at 14°C when I started.

I reset the clock for the last hour of the motorway.

20.7kWh/100km isnt too bad but the tail wind helped alot as will become evident when you see the return journey stats!

Fortunately, the battery just hit 20°C as I arrived at Manor Stone and I was at 9% SoC so I had perfect conditions for max kW from that charger and it duly obliged.

I took pics for each 10kW that it dropped and it seemed to closely match the SoC.... for each 10% increase in SoC it dropped the charge rate by 10kW.... see the following few pics to see that.

I also saw the battery temp increase quickly during the charging session from 20°C to 40°C and the cooler kept the temp steady at 40°C but I was able to get max kW when it was at 20°C, so that is the magic number (along with a low SoC when you plug in).

Once it got to 70% SoC it more or less held the rate at 50kW all the way to 80% SoC.

So, 9-80% in 33mins, 39kWh taken on, so an average rate of 71kW for the session.

As mentioned earlier, the trip home wasnt as efficient. A 20km/h head wind and so the consumption went to 24.5kWh/100km (vs 20.7kWh/100km). I think going home was also uphill.

I did motorway runs(Cork-Dublin return) before in winter/summer and got similar enough figures (winter: 21kWh/100km, summer: 19kWh/100km)

simple answer, I wanted to show actual consumption at motorway speed and not a mixture as that obfuscates the figures as everyone will be on different roads and drive differently so I got onto the motorway, got up to 120km/h speed and THEN hit the reset button and an hour later took the pic.

it was unobstructed motorway driving so cruise control at 120km/h for the entire hour hence the average was also 120km/h!

What tethered charger people can recommend for price as close as possible to the grant? Free charging is gone and I didn't even use half of it. Time for home charging.

Re tyres

I've got continentals on mine,13k up and 6mm front 5mm rear still left extrapolation would suggest they'll do 25 K,that's the best I've seen out of a set of tyres on anything I've ever had ........ever

Journey to north done, 12° dropping to 8° and no real breeze to talk about. Arrived with more than I was expecting, 26%, and took a few km's off the route.

420km range? on the 77kwhr or the quoted number for the 58?

I bought it off the installers, was ab €1300 before the grant.