VW ID.4

Hi all, fantastic til off regarding the reduced PCP APR until the end of March. It is allowing me to change my City for a Life! Now my problem is choosing the colour. I have Mang Grey currently so Now this is discontinued Black is probably the choice but the Kings Red looks appealing. Any thoughts?!!

GET THE RED!!!!

Seriously, it's a fantastic looking colour, really stands out in a good way

I've just had a look at the relatively new charging function in the WeConnect app. I set up "home" as a location in the app yesterday. When I went in to set charging times, all I could see were departure times which seems a bit pointless. In settings, however, there are a few options to set your charging time to "off-peak." Do I just turn one of these on and the car will charge at those times only? I can see that it is possible to adjust the time slots in the car. I'm not risking a timed charge until I have full confirmation. 😂

yeah it can get messy... thats why ive just set the zappi to take care of any overnight charging schedules.. of course the vw app gets cranky about that to with notifications but i just ignore them

Get the Red !! I exchanged my 1st edition, in Mang Grey, for the DX Life and picked it up two weeks ago. The Red is fab, absolutely delighted with it.

It works reasonably well except for the fact that it resets the charging method every so often

The charging will behave slightly differently depending on which option. If you set it for departure time then it'll try to load the charging towards the end of that time

If you select preferred times then the car will try to spread out the charging across the whole time window

I think the idea is to try and reduce the load on the grid, so you might charge at 3.6kW for 8 hours instead of 7.2kW for 4 hours

Personally I use the Zappi to control everything, but that's because I'm trying to charge the car from Solar as much as possible

Point me to this dealer. Mine are usually telling me my car is worth nothing and hiting me with a large deposit and higher repayments. 😅

Latest on 3.0 rollout from fb page

We have been quiet about OTA in the last few weeks. This is something that many of you have noticed and rightly criticized.

Although we may not have been very active here, a lot has happened behind the scenes.

With your helpful feedback, our developers have analyzed problems that some customers had when installing the 3.0 update, identified the causes and implemented optimizations in the software and backend systems to combat them.

In order to make these changes effective, we had to stop the ongoing update waves. Those of you who were part of one of the waves and downloaded the ID Software Update 3.0 but have not yet installed it should have seen a message in your infotainment system.

And now?

We now need a little more time to be able to tell you specifically how the updates will continue for everyone. We plan to have all the information in April and then pass it on to you as soon as possible.

We understand that this is not the message you have been waiting for. However, it is important to us to be honest and transparent with you.

Thank you for putting up with us.

Best regards,

Your ID driver club team

You probably know this already but just to note you're paying interest on that GMFV from day 1, the higher the GMFV the higher the interest charge, with a 7%ish PCP rate that is a big chunk of change to be paying.

Aren't VW offering 3.9% PCP this month on ID4s? Worth asking the dealer.

So it’s an extra €6500 +€2160 =€8660

is it the life 52 KWh or 77 KWh?

the 52kwh life is effectively the City. Not much difference

when the city was available the next model up was the style and the life was the entry 77kwh

First editions had some issues with the software but the cars are rock solid. I presume you are on a 3 year PCP. I never understand, apart from the obvious financial benefit, 😂 why people refinance PCP cars after three years but I envy your sensible approach. Let's see if you get the itch after year three once the facelift models come out. Most of us can't help ourselves. 😉

IT is behind a paywall now. And the Ford Explorer deserves its own thread. Very interesting though that Ford can't profitably make its own budget EV platform so they buy it from VW. Surely this will mean the car will end up either more expensive or with less margin than the same platform cars from VW?

I think the VW deal already has an expiry date, there was some news a while back that Ford are developing their own platform

I guess for Ford they weren't sure how the EV thing was going to turn out at the time and hadn't been making any real investments in that direction

So when it came time to make an EV, I guess it was cheaper in the short term to buy in a platform than invest in changing over one of their factories to manufacture EVs

This is a real pain. Especially where it normally happens is on the motorway when you need it most.