VW ID.3

No buyers remorse here. My id3 is going grand and have no issues. Wouldn't buy a tesla as i have issues with Mr Musk. Promotes free speech as long as you don't say anything bad about him.

I wouldn't say remorse, but I am really fed up with the pathetic approach towards software implementation by VW.

I remember writing a list of maybe 10 bugs when I bought the car in August 2021 but adding that I was sure they'd all be ironed out in the next software update.

Nearly 18 months later and every single bug is still present and I believe that only 2 or 3 are due to be fixed in v3.

That's simply not good enough.

No ID3 remorse here either. Great car. Looking at at getting a Tesla also but not worried if that doesn’t work out as more than happy to keep the ID3.

I'll go see if I can find the list...

I don't think it's overblown at all.

The infotainment screen and system is piss poor compared to my old i3. Even the Leaf before that had a smoother interface and it was bog standard.

The progress (or lack) from 2.1 or whatever it was to 2.4 to 3.0 is comically bad.

Tesla can spit out software updates regularly and easily across the range. Meanwhile VW are farting about with small batches of upgrades, then promises of proper release, then radio silence for months, then another vague batch of updates including bricking a fair number of cars, now more radio silence. Ludicrous.

I sat in a mate's new Tesla model 3 the other week. The infotainment screen is so smooth and polished its embarrassing.

Apologies, it was only 7 and 2 of those I figured out shortly after posting the list.

1 - why is there no way to change the speed limit sign display to stay in miles when you cross a border? Even with all units set to miles, when I drive into Ireland, the little red circle changes to a 100 which of course is km. Directly below that 100 it says mph which refers to the actual speed.

Why on God's name would I want to know what the limit is in km, given that my speedometer, all units, and my brain are working in miles??

2 - is the android app just crap? I don't have a separate option to heat my steering wheel, and the car image is left hand drive with no option to change it.

3 - the lack of battery % without digging into the vehicle menu is annoying.

4 - I don't want to know my mph charging speed on the screen. I want to know my kW charge rate.

5 - I have the option to dip my passengers mirror on reverse, but I have to select it each and every time. Is it too much to ask for the option to always dip, never dip, or dip when I manually select it?

None of those are an issue or bother me. Haven’t noticed travel assist switching off without warning.

We Connect updated the app and now has a widget available for android.

Shows % as well..Very Cool ,you can also refresh the %

Refresh works for me on iOS. Not sure what it’s refresh rate is, it’s not in minutes, but it does update in the background.

I get that it wouldn't show until you hit the refresh button but for it not to respond when you do makes it pretty useless.

Maybe it's just on the android app and will be fixed sometime before 2032.

Android?

Do you have any settings disabling background refresh turned on on your phone?

Not that I know of, any idea how to check?

iil add a few:

1. the car switches randomly to comfort mode. Really annoying if you want eco mode or sport or even worse created your own settings. Also no way to know it did that until you see higher battery drain and click through the system to find it, should have eco/comfort/sport/custom on front screen highlighted. But they have an internal setting wanting you in comfort mode.
2. the speed sign detection uses the gps location and maps first. So it tries to go 120 on the M50 because the maps are wrong or worse because they went the cheap route with eir, think you are off the m4 on a side road and drop you to 30. If the cameras recognise a speed sign, which are nonexistent on our motorways it will update. Dangerous and really annoying.
3. user settings. You can’t see them and set the. They have an automated timer to set them automatically. So I’ve changed my temperature to 17 from 19. It keeps coming up continually with an option to switch it to 19 even though you keep pressing cancel. Also it will just randomly change to it for no reason as well to.
4. it was never set up properly for our roads. So if there is a car going 80 on the motorway and actually is in the appropriate lane, it will identify it and not let you pass because it thinks we drive on the other side of the road and are trying to undertake. This happens a lot on dual carriageways and motorways.
5. when bought they promised quarterly updates over the air. Obviously first one was in house. So far 2 over the air 2 in house. So that’s wasted time etc.
6. also anyone buying one with the hepatic buttons, you need to buy the most expensive one to have full voice control. Basically you get basic voice functions on everything else. The area to change temperature etc is not illuminated so you have no clue where the buttons are at night. They’ve said this is an oversight, but if you f*ck up something so simple and basic, there is a lot more wrong with the car. In general I have one with full voice control and girlfriend has new one without it. Mine is night and day better to drive and she bought hers for 10k more than mine

ive ordered a model 3 and giving up mine. Think she’ll do the same as well as quite frankly the car isn’t worth more than 30k with all its problems

Tried that, took off the restrictions on background use, no difference. Still won't refresh the widget unless I open the app.

Lol, so the widget is pointless if you have to open the app first.