VW ID.3

the_amazing_raisin · 26-02-2021 6:46pm

KCross wrote: »

Ford are going to use it alright but I would have assumed they would buy the MEB platform (chassis, motor, battery) into their factories and integrate into their cars as opposed to VW building Ford cars in Zwickau?

Do VAG build cars for other OEM's already... like a VW and, say, a Mazda coming down the one line?

I believe that is the plan, Ford will buy the chassis and assemble the car in one of their European plants. Probably do something similar in the US when they're building the ID.4 there as well

VW will sell platforms to other companies, but I don't think they do assembly, or at least I doubt they'd be doing it cheaper than any of the existing manufacturers can do it in house

They build VW group cars at Zwickau, for example the Cupra El-born will be assembled there as well

dublinscot · 26-02-2021 8:52pm

Had my ID3 Tech for 2 days now. My first EV. My previous car was a 13yr old diesel, so this is a quantum leap technology-wise.

I'm loving the EV life so far!

Have gotten to grips with the public chargers - used EasyGo in Mullingar yesterday and eCars in Lusk today. Home charger installed next week.

I also worked out the Travel Assist function today. It's great... the car basically drives itself. Makes for a very relaxing drive. The HUD highlights the traffic in front by 'targeting' them with a green line, but i'm quite disappointed VW didn't fit missile launchers.

Pic attached....

TitianGerm · 26-02-2021 9:03pm

dublinscot wrote: »

Had my ID3 Tech for 2 days now. My first EV. My previous car was a 13yr old diesel, so this is a quantum leap technology-wise.

I'm loving the EV life so far!

Have gotten to grips with the public chargers - used EasyGo in Mullingar yesterday and eCars in Lusk today. Home charger installed next week.

I also worked out the Travel Assist function today. It's great... the car basically drives itself. Makes for a very relaxing drive. The HUD highlights the traffic in front by 'targeting' them with a green line, but i'm quite disappointed VW didn't fit missile launchers.

Pic attached....

That's a very nice colour.

eagerv · 26-02-2021 9:11pm

dublinscot wrote: »

Had my ID3 Tech for 2 days now. My first EV. My previous car was a 13yr old diesel, so this is a quantum leap technology-wise.

I'm loving the EV life so far!

Have gotten to grips with the public chargers - used EasyGo in Mullingar yesterday and eCars in Lusk today. Home charger installed next week.

I also worked out the Travel Assist function today. It's great... the car basically drives itself. Makes for a very relaxing drive. The HUD highlights the traffic in front by 'targeting' them with a green line, but i'm quite disappointed VW didn't fit missile launchers.

Pic attached....

Best of luck, looks great. Looking forward to more reports, would love the HUD..

MarkN · 26-02-2021 9:14pm

Used a 50kW today, 16 mins, added 100kms in less time than I could finish the coffee. Have found the whole EV thing a doddle I must admit.

dublinscot · 26-02-2021 9:28pm

eagerv wrote: »

Best of luck, looks great. Looking forward to more reports, would love the HUD..

Cheers!

The HUD is a cool feature, but it's only really useful when combined with the travel assist as it shows you it can see where the lanes and traffic are, so makes you more confident in relinquishing control of the car to the AI....(for me anyway, my previous car didn't even have cruise control nevermind level 2 automated driving!

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I can see why VW combined the 2 on the spec list.

JohnK · 26-02-2021 10:08pm

Anyone know why VW don't seem to offer PCP on the likes of the Tech version?

L-M · 26-02-2021 10:20pm

JohnK wrote: »

Anyone know why VW don't seem to offer PCP on the likes of the Tech version?

You can get PCP on all models?

JohnK · 26-02-2021 10:22pm

L-M wrote: »

You can get PCP on all models?

I was looking at their finance calculator and once you select tech or max the only option is hire purchase at a much higher rate https://www1.volkswagen.ie/finance

TitianGerm · 26-02-2021 10:24pm

JohnK wrote: »

I was looking at their finance calculator and once you select tech or max the only option is hire purchase at a much higher rate https://www1.volkswagen.ie/finance

Website probably just doesn't have all trim level up on it as the calculators are only a guideline I think.

yop · 27-02-2021 1:21am

dublinscot wrote: »

Had my ID3 Tech for 2 days now. My first EV. My previous car was a 13yr old diesel, so this is a quantum leap technology-wise.

I'm loving the EV life so far!

Have gotten to grips with the public chargers - used EasyGo in Mullingar yesterday and eCars in Lusk today. Home charger installed next week.

I also worked out the Travel Assist function today. It's great... the car basically drives itself. Makes for a very relaxing drive. The HUD highlights the traffic in front by 'targeting' them with a green line, but i'm quite disappointed VW didn't fit missile launchers.

Pic attached....

Love it.
I'm on the fence for id3 or id4. The options on 3 look a lot better now

the_amazing_raisin · 27-02-2021 11:52am

yop wrote: »

Love it.
I'm on the fence for id3 or id4. The options on 3 look a lot better now

I would say if you don't need the space then the ID.3 is probably better value

Interior of the ID.4 definitely looks nicer IMO, the ID.3 is nice enough but there's an awful lot of grey

Greenbin · 28-02-2021 5:57pm

Optimistic for efficiency in the warmer months ahead!
First image shows outward leg of essential journey yesterday. Temp around 9 so no heat on of any kind. Mostly N roads with about 20km motorway and some R roads too.
Second image with 14.9 kWh/100 km shows partial return journey up to re-charge stop. All N & R roads. No heat. Car was parked up for around 4.5 hours before return journey but looks like battery still was warmed up?
Got home showing 17 kWh/100km total for full return trip approx 170km. Final leg was wet so wipers and heat on for final 45mins.
With today’s temps I’d imagine figures would be a little better..
Would be very happy if I can repeat those figures in months ahead.

rocketspocket · 28-02-2021 7:05pm

Greenbin wrote: »

Optimistic for efficiency in the warmer months ahead!
First image shows outward leg of essential journey yesterday. Temp around 9 so no heat on of any kind. Mostly N roads with about 20km motorway and some R roads too.
Second image with 14.9 kWh/100 km shows partial return journey up to re-charge stop. All N & R roads. No heat. Car was parked up for around 4.5 hours before return journey but looks like battery still was warmed up?
Got home showing 17 kWh/100km total for full return trip approx 170km. Final leg was wet so wipers and heat on for final 45mins.
With today’s temps I’d imagine figures would be a little better..
Would be very happy if I can repeat those figures in months ahead.

I got 13.8 last sunday over 40KM - of late under 20 would have been an achievement so yep - good weather will give this car a much better range it looks to be..

DermoMIO · 01-03-2021 5:32pm

My Dad just got his Life, I’m fairly sure his software isn’t the most up to date one available ?

eagerv · 01-03-2021 5:41pm

DermoMIO wrote: »

My Dad just got his Life, I’m fairly sure his software isn’t the most up to date one available ?

No, that's the initial software. (Home button etc on left of screen)
But not a problem, he will probably get the full update very shortly to 2.1

Hope he is happy with car..

DermoMIO · 01-03-2021 6:49pm

eagerv wrote: »

No, that's the initial software. (Home button etc on left of screen)
But not a problem, he will probably get the full update very shortly to 2.1

Hope he is happy with car..

I thought as much but didn’t want to jump to conclusions! Will advice him to get onto his sales person. Fairly poor from them they’ve had it since Tuesday and he signed his finance agreement on Thursday, plenty of time to update to 2.0 IMO

TitianGerm · 01-03-2021 6:58pm

DermoMIO wrote: »

I thought as much but didn’t want to jump to conclusions! Will advice him to get onto his sales person. Fairly poor from them they’ve had it since Tuesday and he signed his finance agreement on Thursday, plenty of time to update to 2.0 IMO

2.1 is meant to be available this week or next week I think. 2.0 was only for people with certain issues with the car and wasn't installed on all cars.

MarkN · 01-03-2021 10:00pm

Silent Running · 02-03-2021 9:16am

Jeez, some of the comments. :rolleyes:

cannco253 · 02-03-2021 10:40am

Has anyone tried to use an OBDII on the ID.3 (I presume you can) ?

Why can't car manufacturers just show the SOH of the battery in the settings somewhere? Surely this could be something easy enough to introduce and provide on screen or in the app.

the_amazing_raisin · 02-03-2021 10:42am

Silent Running wrote: »

Jeez, some of the comments. :rolleyes:

Yeah Mr Hydrogen Yaris whatever was certainly off on another planet

And then we've got the usual lad giving out about cobalt and forgetting the oil industry is the main user of cobalt :rolleyes:

Anyway, I thought it was a great series, very informative

KCross · 02-03-2021 2:46pm

cannco253 wrote: »

Has anyone tried to use an OBDII on the ID.3 (I presume you can) ?

Why can't car manufacturers just show the SOH of the battery in the settings somewhere? Surely this could be something easy enough to introduce and provide on screen or in the app.

You can use them on the ID.3. Getting an app that can decode it is the issue. Only one or two so far.

eagerv · 02-03-2021 3:41pm

What a day for driving. 11c, too warm and stuffy in car with heater off. Just turned on fan with heat on low.

Had to go to Thomastown from West Co Wexford. About 75km total (Home to home). Twisty, smooth 80km/h roads. The ID.3 is in her element with this sort of driving. Had fun with the multiple hairpins and still managed 13.8kWh/100km.

Love it..:)

richardob50 · 02-03-2021 7:02pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

2.1 is meant to be available this week or next week I think. 2.0 was only for people with certain issues with the car and wasn't installed on all cars.

The technicians are having a zoom call on Wednesday with vw Ireland to go through the update procedure again and should be good to go from Thursday (according to the local vw dealer last week)

the_amazing_raisin · 02-03-2021 9:58pm

richardob50 wrote: »

The technicians are having a zoom call on Wednesday with vw Ireland to go through the update procedure again and should be good to go from Thursday (according to the local vw dealer last week)

Hopefully they remember to open the firewall this time to let the update through

yop · 03-03-2021 12:17pm

Lads
Any comments on the new range and say what the value maybe down the line?
I'm looking at the longer range as I will need to be making longer trips once lockdown ceases so the Tour (77kw) is where I am now at.

TIA

the_amazing_raisin · 03-03-2021 1:37pm

yop wrote: »

Lads
Any comments on the new range and say what the value maybe down the line?
I'm looking at the longer range as I will need to be making longer trips once lockdown ceases so the Tour (77kw) is where I am now at.

TIA

So first thing to know about the tour is that it's a 4 seater, there's no centre seat belt in the back. Something to do with the weight being too high

If you're looking at the tour I'd also look at the ID.4, it's got the same battery, slightly less range, nicer interior and more space. It might suit your needs better

There were some articles a while back saying the bosses in VW wanted to upgrade the interior of the ID.3 to make it a bit more premuim to address the main complaints people had around the quality. I'm guessing that'll be next year earliest so if the interior bugs you then it might be best to wait a while

03-03-2021 1:59pm

cruisey1987 wrote: »

So first thing to know about the tour is that it's a 4 seater, there's no centre seat belt in the back. Something to do with the weight being too high

If you're looking at the tour I'd also look at the ID.4, it's got the same battery, slightly less range, nicer interior and more space. It might suit your needs better

There were some articles a while back saying the bosses in VW wanted to upgrade the interior of the ID.3 to make it a bit more premuim to address the main complaints people had around the quality. I'm guessing that'll be next year earliest so if the interior bugs you then it might be best to wait a while

there will be a 5 seater. It is discussed on goingelectric.de(in German)

Silent Running · 03-03-2021 2:00pm

cruisey1987 wrote: »

So first thing to know about the tour is that it's a 4 seater, there's no centre seat belt in the back. Something to do with the weight being too high

If you're looking at the tour I'd also look at the ID.4, it's got the same battery, slightly less range, nicer interior and more space. It might suit your needs better

There were some articles a while back saying the bosses in VW wanted to upgrade the interior of the ID.3 to make it a bit more premuim to address the main complaints people had around the quality. I'm guessing that'll be next year earliest so if the interior bugs you then it might be best to wait a while

There's a new version of the ID.3 Tour coming very soon. It's called the Tour 5, it has 5 seats but loses some of the spec to get there. No HUD, no massage seats... some other stuff.

VW ID.3

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