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    #1922
    hold my beer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    Did you add the car to your home WiFi? Think it has to have an active data connection


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    #1923
    TitianGerm
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    hold my beer wrote: »
    Did you add the car to your home WiFi? Think it has to have an active data connection

    The car has a 4G connection.


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    #1924
    Black_Knight
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    TheBigEvil wrote: »
    Just wondering, has anyone been able to get the ID Connect app to work with pre-heating the car? Every time I try to set it, change the temperature in the car, it fails to connect when trying to update the car. Can't figure it out at all.

    It was failing for me this morning (couldn't connect to the car), but it's worked a few times before no bother. This morning was the one morning I actually needed it though.


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    #1925
    TheBigEvil
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    hold my beer wrote: »
    Did you add the car to your home WiFi? Think it has to have an active data connection

    But the car has a 4G sim in it, as per above post. The app is correctly showing the battery status and KM left. But anytime I go to set it to pre-heat it always fails connection.


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    #1926
    TitianGerm
    Registered Users Posts: 28,080 ✭✭✭✭TitianGerm


    TheBigEvil wrote: »
    But the car has a 4G sim in it, as per above post. The app is correctly showing the battery status and KM left. But anytime I go to set it to pre-heat it always fails connection.

    Have you tried signing out of the app and back in?


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    #1927
    hold my beer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    I plugged mine in for the first time to charge and the app keeps saying 'Error ocurred. We cannot connect to your vehicle right now. Please try again". The green light on the car is pulsing on and off, presume that means it is charging?

    The app is really poor.


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    #1928
    hold my beer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    TitianGerm wrote: »
    The car has a 4G connection.
    TheBigEvil wrote: »
    But the car has a 4G sim in it, as per above post. The app is correctly showing the battery status and KM left. But anytime I go to set it to pre-heat it always fails connection.


    Is that the Cubic Telecom thing? If you didn't sign up for it, does the car still have 4G?


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    #1929
    TitianGerm
    Registered Users Posts: 28,080 ✭✭✭✭TitianGerm


    hold my beer wrote: »
    Is that the Cubic Telecom thing? If you didn't sign up for it, does the car still have 4G?

    I didn't sign up to anything on my ID3 and I've a 4G connection icon on the screen and have no issues using the app to turn on the heating.


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    #1930
    TheBigEvil
    Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭TheBigEvil


    TitianGerm wrote: »
    Have you tried signing out of the app and back in?

    Well what do you know... Just did that and was able to start the aricon via the app... cheers !!


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    #1931
    hold my beer
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    I've tried logging out and in again but it's not recognising that I'm charging (hopefully).


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    #1932
    the_amazing_raisin
    Registered Users Posts: 11,373 ✭✭✭✭the_amazing_raisin


    hold my beer wrote: »
    I've tried logging out and in again but it's not recognising that I'm charging (hopefully).

    I think pulsing green is charging, solid green is charged

    There should be a sticker inside the charge port cover with the different light patterns and their meaning

    As for the app, if signing back in doesn't work then maybe try pairing the car to your VW account again?

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



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    #1933
    Black_Knight
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    the_amazing_raisin wrote: »
    I think pulsing green is charging, solid green is charged

    There should be a sticker inside the charge port cover with the different light patterns and their meaning

    As for the app, if signing back in doesn't work then maybe try pairing the car to your VW account again?

    Thought solid green was charging.


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    #1934
    hold my beer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    the_amazing_raisin wrote: »
    As for the app, if signing back in doesn't work then maybe try pairing the car to your VW account again?


    How would I do that?


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    #1935
    hold my beer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    I went out and looked and the sticker says pulsing is charging. Solid green is charged.


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    #1936
    the_amazing_raisin
    Registered Users Posts: 11,373 ✭✭✭✭the_amazing_raisin


    hold my beer wrote: »
    How would I do that?

    Not sure but I'm guessing you need to repeat what you did the first time to generate the QR code on the infotainment system and scan it with your phone

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



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    #1937
    Black_Knight
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    The id4 isn't the quickest off they line, it's a big heavy suv at the end of the day, but it's no slouch.

    Lights today I seen some audi, I think a TT, beside me and could feel he wanted to beat me off the line (2 lanes merge into 1 in a few hundred metres). No joy though, id4 blew him away. Pretty sure the gear change was what swung it.

    BMW 440i had me the other day though. Wasn't much in it (in sure the car would have no bother) and he was creeping at the lights when they changed green, but still fun.


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    #1938
    cannco253
    Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭cannco253


    Bjorn nails it with his infotainment review, nothing really that VW can't fix with later updates.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6dcmRFd55o


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    #1939
    Black_Knight
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    cannco253 wrote: »
    Bjorn nails it with his infotainment review, nothing really that VW can't fix with later updates.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6dcmRFd55o

    Hopefully "later" isn't too long away. Sure the UX can be a bit all over the place, but it doesn't functionally break things. Preheating being a timer is a bit silly, but it does what it needs to do. The app is slow, but again, it does what it needs to do... Eventually. Scheduled charging on the other hand, doesn't work in my and others experience.

    Be nice if VW had some public facing list of bugs they're aware of and working on. Doubtful though


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    #1940
    v10
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    Black_Knight wrote: »
    BMW 440i had me the other day though. Wasn't much in it (in sure the car would have no bother) and he was creeping at the lights when they changed green, but still fun.

    I have a similar powered BMW (and iD4) .. there is no comparison, the iD4 wouldn't come close, I'm sure it was fun but I assume the 440 driver wasn't trying !


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    #1941
    the_amazing_raisin
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    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Be nice if VW had some public facing list of bugs they're aware of and working on. Doubtful though

    It'd be nice but that's more of a software company mentality, not sure if automakers are that willing to admit their products aren't perfect

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



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    #1942
    the_amazing_raisin
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    v10 wrote: »
    I have a similar powered BMW (and iD4) .. there is no comparison, the iD4 wouldn't come close, I'm sure it was fun but I assume the 440 driver wasn't trying !

    That'll be my excuse for buying a Taycan :D

    Right after I win the lottery

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



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    #1943
    v10
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    the_amazing_raisin wrote: »
    That'll be my excuse for buying a Taycan :D

    Right after I win the lottery

    Now that would be proper fun :)


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    #1944
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,374 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    v10 wrote: »
    I have a similar powered BMW (and iD4) .. there is no comparison, the iD4 wouldn't come close, I'm sure it was fun but I assume the 440 driver wasn't trying !

    The noise from his exhaust suggested he was. He did look like a moron though. Overstretched tyres on the car, baseball cap. Ugh.

    Don't get me wrong, the BMW had me no bother, but it wasn't as much a walkover as I expected. Very short 2 lanes though, so it was the best chance the id4 was going to get (quickest at early acceleration).


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    #1945
    Black_Knight
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    the_amazing_raisin wrote: »
    It'd be nice but that's more of a software company mentality, not sure if automakers are that willing to admit their products aren't perfect

    I've more respect for those that admit fallacy than those who pretend to be perfect.


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    #1946
    Black_Knight
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    Another charging update. Scheduled between 1am and 7am. Departure at 7.45 (though I don't think this has anything to do with charging). SOC was 83%, charging to 100%

    Nothing happen at 1am, but at 5.30 it started pulling about 4kW and at about 5.50 it start pulling the full 7kW, at about 6.30am it dropped that slightly to maybe 6kW, until it ended at 7am. Final SOC this morning is 96%.

    So maybe the car tried to have it fully charged at departure time, but that was outside the scheduled time so it couldn't? Bad system though. Charge time and departure time don't need to be related. We'll see does it preheat at 7.45...


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    #1947
    Black_Knight
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    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Another charging update. Scheduled between 1am and 7am. Departure at 7.45 (though I don't think this has anything to do with charging). SOC was 83%, charging to 100%

    Nothing happen at 1am, but at 5.30 it started pulling about 4kW and at about 5.50 it start pulling the full 7kW, at about 6.30am it dropped that slightly to maybe 6kW, until it ended at 7am. Final SOC this morning is 96%.

    So maybe the car tried to have it fully charged at departure time, but that was outside the scheduled time so it couldn't? Bad system though. Charge time and departure time don't need to be related. We'll see does it preheat at 7.45...

    Preheating away now... And charging!? Weird. It shouldn't be charging IMO. It's outside it's charging schedule.


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    #1948
    TitianGerm
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    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Preheating away now... And charging!? Weird. It shouldn't be charging IMO. It's outside it's charging schedule.

    It's taking charge to preheat the car.


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    #1949
    Black_Knight
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    TitianGerm wrote: »
    It's taking charge to preheat the car.

    Why do you assume that? How could it be charging and preheating if it was talking from the battery to preheat.

    In still plugged in, and it's taking power from the grid to preheat, and also taking power from the grid to charge. Taking power to preheat if fine, I expect that, but charging outside of the schedule is not what I expected, or wanted


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    #1950
    TitianGerm
    Registered Users Posts: 28,080 ✭✭✭✭TitianGerm


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Why do you assume that? How could it be charging and preheating if it was talking from the battery to preheat.

    In still plugged in, and it's taking power from the grid to preheat, and also taking power from the grid to charge. Taking power to preheat if fine, I expect that, but charging outside of the schedule is not what I expected, or wanted

    If I have my ID3 plugged in and turn on the heat in the car before I leave the house the car shows as it's charging in the app and the green light flashes on the car to indicating it's charging.

    It's also most likely preheating the battery before you leave and using the grid to do that.


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    #1951
    Black_Knight
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    TitianGerm wrote: »
    If I have my ID3 plugged in and turn on the heat in the car before I leave the house the car shows as it's charging in the app and the green light flashes on the car to indicating it's charging.

    It's also most likely preheating the battery before you leave and using the grid to do that.

    Oh mine added 3% battery during the "preheating". App even said adding 10km/hr or something like that.


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