VW ID.4

20s coming on my as already in production

hey all, quick question maybe someone can answer. The id4 has randomly stared to turn the heat up to 25.5 c inside the car Today my wife was driving and had it set to 19 and it just jumped to 25.5. She says it started doing this in the last week or so and she hasn’t changed any setting in the car or on the app. Any suggestions?

"Buying an ev in general is riskier than buying a proven diesel or petrol car ."

Just tidying this up to be…."Buying a Volkswagen or BYD is riskier than buying a proven vehicle from other manufacturers".

Equally, or less outlandish than the original statement? 🤔

My id4 gone off to hospital via AA, this morning. Passenger door opening randomly and also failing to open. Can be either of two issues, I understand. Garage didn't want me driving it to the garage.

Less than 12 months.

Exactly…

thanks I will check that

Leave it with them to fix and demand a hire car at their expense if it’s in warranty. That’ll speed up the repair I expect.

close to 100%.

Mine was taken to the nearest dealer, who told me it will take between 7 to 12 days. Was supposed to have a hire car, which is what VW Assist give, within two hours of my car being received in the garage. Turns out to be 24 hours.

Problem is it's intermittent, not constant like some others. If it happens before the garage appointment then I might give them a call

you will! I have a 222 ID4 with 50k kms and it just started to happen on mine last week.

They stopped selling ID4's in USA for a while until they applied the fix to any being sold.

I’ve a 221, 60,000 and no issue with the doors

Maybe they fixed mine when doing the upgrade in the garage. No idea, but I've had no issues. Changing it for a ProPlus soon.

ID.4 owners can now join the frunk club

For €300....ouch

https://www.frunk.at/produkt/set-vw-id-4-id-5-frunk/

Might wait for the Alibaba knock offs to appear

I tried cleaning with white spirits last night, and thought they look spotless, the error is back this morning. I'll try WD40 this evening and if that doesn't work, I guess it's back to the dealer. I thought I read here, or somewhere else, that VW are blaming issues with parking sensors on stone damage, even though there isn't a mark on them?

Anyway, thanks for the responses and hopefully the WD40 will work🤞

Thanks for that. Brilliant bit of info! How do you get the sensors out, I don't want to do more damage through stupidly.

Update on the door saga, I managed to get an earlier appointment with another VW garage

To give the full story, I'd booked it in to have the AC fixed, then cancelled that appointment after getting it fixed by an independent garage. Then VW forgot to cancel the appointment and sent me a reminder yesterday, so called them and told them about the door issue

Dropped it in today and I asked how they were going to fix it. The service agent said they'd have to see it happening to diagnose the issue

I wasn't too happy with that answer and pointed out the door only fails to close on hot days and it wouldn't be a good look for VW if the door opened while driving and a child fell out

They gave me the same BS about needing to see the problem but they were confident the diagnostics would see if something was wrong

Seriously, do they just assume people are lying and dropping their cars in for the craic? Whatever happened to root cause analysis?

I suppose I was lucky that it was warm enough today, maybe the issue actually happened. I'll try to get the full story tomorrow

Anyway, got a call earlier saying the car was ready for pickup. I asked what they fixed and was told they had a door seal on order and I'd need to drop the car in again when it arrives

A door seal....seems like the kind of cheap parts you'd keep in stock

I'm genuinely curious how people who use their cars for work survive? Imagine telling a taxi driver he couldn't work for 3-4 days because of a door seal

I get that it isn't economical or practical to have every part in stock, but you'd think there'd be a list of relatively cheap and likely to replace parts that they'd keep around

I'm also curious about how they figured out the problem. The cynical part of my brain keeps telling me they hadn't a clue what was wrong but knew they had to do something and they just went for the cheapest and easiest potential fix

Anyway, that's my rant for the day, thanks for listening, it was very therapeutic 😂

On a winter morning, my wife might be heading off to work at around 7:30am. Do you simply tap on the "Air conditioning" tab on the home screen and tap "Start" while you're eating your breakfast? Or, if you always head off around the same time every morning, does setting a "Departure time" in the app do the same thing?

You've answered your own question there. Those are the two options. There is no right or wrong answer. If manually starting it works for you then go with that.

The departure time setting only works if you consistently leave at the same time.

And the bigger question I have is, does the car need to be actively drawing power / on-charge in order for this cabin pre-heating (or cooling) to work?

No

And if off the battery, does it eat much battery % doing so?

Depends on how cold it is!

A percent or two would be typical. Just try it out for yourself and see.

If it’s a known issue which it would appear it is, you should at least get some goodwill towards the repair from VW Ireland. A full VW service history will help with your claim.