VW ID.3

Edit: deposit taken on the car after about two hours of listing the car on DD.

It's time to say goodbye to my ID3 First after nearly two years and a pitiful 12,000KM.

During Covid my milage dropped off a cliff and I then changed jobs recently so I've a five minute commute and no work related driving. Between that and adding a 73KW Ioniq 5 to the house that does all the family travel the range of the ID3 is wasted.

If anyone is interested in purchasing a second hand ID3 just send me a PM. I've a very good offer from a local dealer but I'm sure they'll look to sell it for over €37K so I can try look after a Boardsie if they want to cut out the middle man.

Without showing your hand, I presume you are getting more than (or very close to) what you paid for it 2yrs ago?

My Niro has a (somewhat buried in the settings) feature that piggybacks on the adaptive cruise control called Smart Regen. While less extensive or elaborate than the smart feature within the ID.3, it uses the radar from the ACC to ramp up regen (from whatever you have it set to, range 0-3) if required due to traffic in front, etc. I was driving some roads in Wicklow at the weekend and found it seemed to engage a bit in response to approaching bends as well (I hadn't noticed this before), but I suspect this was more the radar detecting the hedgerow and ditch than using GPS.

My usual now with that would be to leave the braking at 0 on main roads (coasts very well, suggesting to me there's no regen) and let that feature kick in as required, but on windy roads I'll put it up to 2 or 3 to get close to one pedal driving.

The Irish models of the Kona, despite being built on a shared platform with the Niro, does not have this feature due to not having ACC (baffling decision on Hyundai's part IMO, but it is what it is).

I used to use N mode occasionally to clean the brakes..

Ok, after 8 days at the dealership and failed SOH tests they're going to replace 2 busted battery modules. They promised to do the replacement by the end the next week. I believe it when I see it... Will ask them to provide a SOH report when it's done. So morale of the story is - if you own an ID.x series car and it doesn't charge to the full capacity and has a low range - get yourself an obd scanner and check the cell voltages. All 5 cars I found online bar 1 had battery modules replaced.... The problem can be more wide-spread then we think.

Yes, definitely a result. Thanks again for helping me out!. the manager said 2 modules to be replaced. Quick google shows that a 62kWh battery has 9 modules with 24 cells in each. So they are replacing 22% of the battery:)

is 32k good trade in offer good for my id3 first with 20k km? thinking of getting new id3 in Jan

was 34 ish i think

Original price was about €34K less incentives. Will they hold that trade in until Jan and how much is new model then?

I think I'd be pushing for more to be honest... as crazy as that sounds.

They will put your car on the forecourt for €37k,€38k... I think you could squeeze another few €k off them since you are going to buy a new car where they will also scalp you for the new price, which has gone up by a few thousand since you bought the 1st edition.

At the very least get a few more trade-in offers and look at done deal to see what the asking prices are.

THIS.....

A starting point is.....

1) asking point of cars like your current car - minus 4 k or thereabouts on a recent car

So a car making 32 k on a dealers forecourt might be 28 k on a trade in.

2) list price of new car - lets call it 55 k with delivery included (54 k plus 1 k delivery for illustration.

A cost to change of 27 k seems a reasonable starting point in this scenario

27 k is the figure that matters and is the basis for comparison with other dealers and makes of car

Was offered 34.5 for my first with 55k/kms.

Theyre selling them from 38+ used from the main dealers.

The 32 seems very low.