VW ID.3

Thanks it seems like it must be something up like that as everything was working fine.

The VIN number finally showed up today for my ID3 Tech. I had placed my order in July.

How long does it typically take for the car to be on the boat after the VIN shows up?

I think there’s no real answer to that question. Not only are there too many variables, most of which are unknown, but the process as a whole seems to be slowing down over time.

I also ordered in July. If memory serves, I had a VIN in late September and the car was in Ireland the first week in November. I delayed taking possession until the new year.

Thanks, I hope mine gets delivered in a couple of months 😊

Help, my car is being held hostage! I took it to the dealer last Friday for two things, 1 possibly serious, 1 not. The serious one was that my wife reported some sort of brake failure at low speed. I wasn’t in the car and it’s hard for me to ascertain what happened. I drove out to her and did find that there were lights on the dash indicating things like “check tyre pressure” but none related to the brakes and all of them yellow rather than red, so not indicating serious problems. I drove it home with no problems and in the days following, it was fine. But, I thought, better to get it checked out.

The other problem was repeated disconnections of the car from the internet.

So I took it in last Friday. Work was completed on Tuesday and they asked to keep it overnight for a technician to do some on the road tests. I expected it delivered Wednesday morning. It wasn’t delivered. Dealer claimed they were waiting for the OK from VW. Spoke to VW Ireland. They said their technician was waiting to hear from “the factory” in Germany.

Thursday came and went with my car still being held in limbo: not being worked on, not being tested, just being held by the dealer.

Here we are now on the 8th day and my car remains in limbo and still waiting for somebody somewhere in either Germany or here to give the OK to give me back my car. This is now the third day since work was completed that the car has been sitting at the dealer’s. But I can’t have it and nobody has offered a full explanation for why.

Here is the service schedule for the I'd range.

Bring it back after 2years,regardless of mileage,dealer is being a tosser if he tries to float anything else.

Yes, they did. A Tiguan (a truly awful car, but that's neither here nor there).

I'm perfectly fine with them being certain the brakes are OK. That's not what's happening here. The car has had no work and no testing done on it in the last 72 hours. Rather, they sent everything off to VW (in Germany) on Tuesday and have been waiting ever since. Nobody has told me what the hold-up is, what the likely resolution is, when I'm likely to get the car back. And I'm looking at the second consecutive weekend without it. I don't know, for example, whether the paperwork is sitting on someone's desk or being minutely pored over by an entire team. I have no idea whether this is something that affects only my car or all ID.3s. Someone at the dealer did suggest that they were "waiting" for a "software update," but it was by no means clear what that meant. I asked if he meant software 2.4 (which could take weeks to come down) but he didn't know.

I have no confidence that anyone at VW is able to repair this car. I don't think anyone else should, either.

I got an email from vw ireland confirming, the 2 years unlimited "milage".

The service manager at my dealer had claimed that vw ireland had said the unlimited milage on the website was a mistake and that a service was due after 30,000km or 2 years whichever is first.

Speaks for itself really.

Post a screenshot because I'm not seeing that anywhere on the app.

We Charge Go say no extra charging fee which I assume is no connection fee.

Yes that's the connection fee.

On the Free plan they charge 30c connection fee to ESB chargers but that's waived on the paid plans.

I saw that fault once a couple of months ago but it hasn't appeared since. I've had similiar messages (no more than 4 or 5 in six months) about Travel Assist or other assist functions not available but they clear after a couple of minutes driving or after restarting the car.

on the infotainment panel, you see the car and 'easy open' pointing towards the boot - what does that mean?

Also is there some massive manual somewhere thats up to date? online? The included one is nothing basically.

Oh also collected my one :) ordered in July :) Thanks to the forum for all the help/answers. Happy to answer a question if I can, I have a ID3 and ID wall box. Other than that, I know very little else.

My ID3 is 2.3 software but I see a notification saying that and software update is availible, I clicked it and then it tells me unable to retrive at this time or similar.

Also if I ask for internet radio, it just says unavailible.

Any ideas?

Perhaps a stupid question: am I right to assume that I'm not obliged to have the car serviced at the dealer I bought it from? That last experience was woeful and, when I got the car home, I found that it was put back together carelessly such that insulation was showing in the boot and the left rear seatbelt clasp was wedged under the seat in a way that I can't put it back, making the left rear seat unusable.

This is after they kept the car for 8 days, did nothing but tests (no repairs), and returned it to me with a promise that the two issues would be solved with "software updates" at some future time.

I no longer have confidence (at all) in that dealer. It may turn out that they're all just as bad, but I'll take my chances...

Can anyone help with the following:

1) I linked the car to my home wifi, 4 bars - but I don't see what the use of that was, what can it do that it can't from it's own standard wifi? Internet radio is not availible in either case.

2) On the media section of the infotainment, my phone is linked via bluetooth and my sources -> bluetooth -> music -> empty, while on my phone VLC has plenty of music. I also see another source thats not my bluetooth not sure what that is.