VW ID.4

Was at the VW dealership yesterday getting new tires, puncture in one of them but need new ones and had the tire package so got new 20's on the back on my GTX.

Anyway was shooting the breeze with the salesman who sold it to me and he said things are slowing down 9.9% interest on everything is killing them. Selling no more GTX's the price hike last year put them over the 60k so no grant.

There was an ID5 there and I was looking inside of it and noticed the battery was at 12%....so I said to him you should charge that, he said it came from the factory at that level so no Biggy!! 😮😮😮 Just wondering how many weeks has it been below 20%?? We are all worried about battery being below 20 for a few hours and here we have the dealer keeping it less than 20% for days/weeks possibly

Where possible you shouldn't leave the car at below 20% or above 80% SoC, it's not good for the battery

That's pretty poor, you should have told them they'll need to discount the price because of all the battery degradation they're causing, that'd get them off their lazy arses pretty quickly

I'm honestly not sure what the dealership's are expecting, there's a cost of living crisis, interest rates are going up and yet they're hiking prices and pushing the most expensive models. I get the profit margin and commission is higher, but at some point reality is going to come knocking

Hey I'm just repeating the info from VW 😉

I believe the general advice is that it's fine to go outside that range when driving, just don't leave the car outside that range for days or weeks at a time

Certainly I've gone down to 5% SoC and it doesn't seem to have caused any degradation

VW also seem to be tracking some of the battery metrics as someone found out earlier. Might be that VW will feed that info into a battery warranty claim to determine if you hadn't been following the battery care guidelines

From what everybody says, what VW "and the car" is not to leave it for any long periods at above 80% or below 20%. There is no problem with charging to 100% or going down to single figures but leaving the battery for a couple of weeks at very low levels go against all guidance....

Warehouse Sales Event (frankkeanevolkswagen.ie)

Read the savings. It’s comical. Comparing a ID3x price against a business

if you

take the 1.9% PCP you lose a 3k discount

Yeah, I figured there must be a catch.

Booking the car in for new tyres as part of a service pack.

I was told it’ll take all day. So I told them to cop on and do them while I wait. I was then told there’s an update to the hinges that is the reason it’s taking all day. And they won’t give a loaner

has anyone else been told about an hinge update/ recall and surely if it’s there F up they need to provide a loaner

So since we got an ID.3 facelift this year, anyone taking bets on whether we'll get an ID.4 update next year?

I'm not sure they'll do much with the exterior, considering they just made the ID.3 look more like the 4

Interior could do with a refresh though, it'd be nice if someone in VW could discover the concept of covered storage

And not using f**king gloss black plastic everywhere 😫

3% increase coming in July, grant being reduced, is putting a lot of models above the grant. You will only be able get the base models within grant.

Bit the bullet and ordered a new ID 4 today. Getting it in the next week or so stock model. Got a great deal ID 4 DX moonstone grey.

Nice congrats!

No signs of any facelift coming just yet. From next year I think VW will focus on the new Tiguan for a while and try to push as many Hybrids as possible. That car will probably date the ID4 quite a bit so maybe a facelift for the ID4 at the end of 2024. I actually think the ID3 facelift was a bit premature. I'd like to see them remove the dull plastic exterior trim on the ID4 along the doors. Would I be right in saying they have replaced this with shiny black plastic on the facelifted ID3?

I think the interior updates will only happen with the mk2 ID4. It would be too expensive to change the interior on a mid-life facelift. Usually, they focus on a few panels outside the car and spend as little money as possible to make the car look visually different. Traditionally VW actually removes interior luxuries from their midlife facelifted cars to phase them out of production for the next model. I think on the Facelift ID4 they will focus on one exterior lighting option for the car instead of standard and Pro, change the bumpers and lights, and perhaps update the software to whatever is in the Id7 with a bigger screen.

My front passenger door doing the same thing again this evening. Getting really concerned now.

Dealer can’t see the car until next week.