VW ID.3

I dont man. It aas the same with me and I played around a lot with vents, aircon, temperature, re-circulation and glass cleaning products. I was under the impression its a humidity issue that leads to slight condensation over time. I wiped the whole windscreen in the beginning with a tissue and it felt slightly wet. Its annoying but the ID4 doesn't seem to be as bad as the ID3 when looking at my mates car.

His ID3 is pretty much like the one in the picture.

I have that persistent screen haze too, really noticeable on sunny days. They need a good clean every couple of weeks, even with aircon on auto, but it always comes back. Even worse, if the windscreen fogs up, what looks like someone's name ('Jelic') is revealed. No amount of cleaning will remove its - like they used a candle to write it!

I got the impression from a VW salesman in August that VW are meant to update the range around Oct/November.

He advised me to come back in November.

Could have had an ID3 straight off the lot back then but it was a Family.

That car (a cancelled order) took 7 months to come from when it was ordered incidentally.

At 40 k the Cupra is a nicer product.

Was specifically talking to the salesman because if 33 k euro a pop ID3s were a thing again then id look at it.

If you could get the Seat for 40k it’s a no brainer, the family is now €44,862, used to be €39,373 !, without metallic or upping the spec on the wheels- that puts it 5k over the born- whilst the matrix set up was a deal breaker for me at €5k it wouldn’t be worth the price difference, not by a long shot - it will be a long time before id3’s hit 33k - anyone who bought before the energy ‘crisis’ or the new wave of ev people are in positive equity ..or if you have an ev trade in ..

They must be 2023 prices, I got one on Thursday for 42k with 1200 of extras.

It's €40,820 now up from €38,160 on their updated pricelist and that still includes the service pack (4 tyres, brake fluid, front brake pads, cabin filter and wipers). Their prices also seem to exclude VRT relief as my car was €2k less than what I was quoted as it isn't calculated until the car is being delivered.

I did say the price on website is 40820 and he said the price has now gone up, there was only few hundred of extras, not that much at all... Maybe he made a mistake but that's the price he gave me...probably better discuss this on the Cupra Born thread, better keep this thread for ID.3 - so I'll leave it here

Well you wouldn't have a choice paying that for something with less spec considering everything has gone up, when I was pricing a 58kWh ID.3 Tech they were €40-41k two years ago, it's now €48,400. The Born with updated pricing is €40,800 now, I think the ID.3 Family is similar spec which are €44,200.

A 77kWh Tour 5 is €44k and has less spec than the likes of the Tech from what I can see. Both the Born 77kWh and ID.3 Tour are €50k.

So, just looking at new September ID3 pricelist, from what i can gather, they have added 2 grand onto a Life DX model bringing it to 42k

I thing the T5 already went to 46k a few months back, it looks like they just increased the Life DX on this pricelist, as its currently the only variant, that can be ordered

I genuinely don’t know what our next cars will be. I will always need something that can easily pull at least 2 tonnes. And I’d like an estate ev for the other car. I’d love to ditch one car altogether tbh but would still need the jeepy thing.

We aren’t likely to get something with as good a spec as the tour for a while. A few of us were very fortunate to get that on 0% finance.