VW ID.3

A good natural fix for a lot of bad smells in the car, cut up 2 oranges into slices and leave in 2 x lunchboxes one in the front and one in the rear with lid off so they don't fall all over the place. Leave for several days if needed. The orange will then get sucked into the vents curing any fish smells there too.

Indeed the range of the tour and tour 5 us really great to have very impressed with the whole car to be honest, it's made a big difference to my commute.

Yeah I have to agree here, the wipers are a bit sh1t, in heavy rain the passenger wiper dumps water on the drivers side in line of sight, I reckon there should be a recall to fix it.

There's also some kind of film on my windscreen since I got it that causes massive smearing as if the wipers are completely worn, so maybe some Sonax might help but definitely, the wipers are a pain for me, I mean it's not the be-all and end-all but it's something that should have not left the factory until it was changed for right hand drive.

There's a reason they're different for driving on the left vs right so why they let right hand cars out of the factory is beyond me.

No don't think the dealer put on gardX or anything like that. They'd charge you for it and they didn't charge me.

Yeah I will have to go to Halfords in Carlow tomorrow to get Glass cleaner and clean the wipers, inside also had mad residue.

ID4 has normal wipers ? didn't know that but VW really should do a recall and fix it for right hand drive.

Below 7 deg C your Summer Tyres begin to loose their effectiveness and much more so when the road temps get lower, frost and ice is dangerous with Summer Tyres and snow not very practical do drive with.

Winter Tyres, as in proper Snow Tyres make a massive difference on Frost and ICE/Snow, can actually be the difference between able to drive or not depending on conditions.

Whether you think you need these tyres or not is up to you, we might have a cold winter, we might not, might only have frost in the mornings as usual and gone by 11am and if you live close to main roads that are salted then it might not be necessary unless there's lots of snow which is unlikely in out climate and if there is snow it's usually wet snow few cm in the morning and gone by 12 Pm but the thing is that our climate is highly unpredictable and we could have a colder than usual Winter to Hardly cold at all.

I don't intend to get Winter tyres and where I live if there's a Decent amount of snow on the road I'll just stay at home because the standard of driving in Ireland in snow is absolutely appalling causing chaos and chances are the roads won't be cleared so it's not worth travelling to me.

I live 4 kms to the M9 and can cope with Ice on the road, last year there was some crazy black Ice on my local roads and I managed in the BMW i3 which was difficult because you can't turn off the regen so at times it's like pulling the handbrake because the rear wheels locked up a lot so I had to be even more careful. At least with the VW ID3 I can turn off regen in D mode which will make it a lot easier but you need to play with the settings and turn off all the stuff that makes the car brake when it detects bad bends or junctions because it can brake pretty hard on it's own and you don't want this on ICE so time to figure all that out now before People start to drive on ICE for the first time with a Rear Wheel Drive EV it can be quite dangerous when not used to it.