VW ID.3

Did you try logging out of the app restarting your phone and logging back in?

You should be fine to start a charge without the app.

The plaza is long enough trip off from that route. About 15-20mins each way.

Glynns in Carnmore cross would be closer and likely less busy though not as fancy. You'd be coming off at the rathmorrisey interchange for both

You don’t need the heat pump.

A three year old 1st will be slightly less before Christmas when all the initial PCP contracts are up and a 1st Plus maybe 21k?

I'd planned in driving my 2017 Ioniq into the ground but I could be tempted back into an ID3 as I loved my one.

Back again wth my timed charging issue. So pull into home and its set as a location to charge immediatly to 30% then to 80% for departure time. I pull in tap to charge for departure I was at 16%(at 7pm, depart following day 9am). Car charges but keeps going past 30%.

So I checked on the app what my settings were, all ok. Then I changed from charge and air con for departure to just charge for departure....and it stops charging and says waiting for departure time as it should perfect.

So me changing charge for departure with AC on/off seems to help it reember what I had asked it to do?

If it is a “1st plus” it has these extras, have seen several adds described as “1st”, when in actual fact they are a “1st plus”, there was circa 7k premium for the “1st Plus, when they 1st came out, the easiest visual differences to spot easily, is the two tone seating cloth, has the 1st badging, and it has a ski hatch.

There's some debate over if you'd even notice a difference with the sport suspension on the Born so it seems there isn't a huge difference in ride comfort between the two cars. I'd be double checking the tyre pressure and making sure the transport blocks aren't still on the suspension. My rear tyres were 3-4psi over which made it fairly harsh/crashy.

The Born is a marginally softer ride than my old Golf, also on sport suspension, and that's with the Born having around 5% less sidewall. (215/45/20=97mm, 225/45/17=101mm).

On the topic of tyre pressure, I picked up this portable Xiaomi air compressor off Amazon for €50. Handy for topping up air pressure regularly since I don't go to the garage anymore. Didn't want to get a wired one as it would be a bit awkward to reach with the cigarette lighter in the back. Even has a light on top if you're caught out in the dark.

There's 3 pucks in each of the front springs during transport but you need to jack up the car to be able to get to them. I've seen mixed reports on whether you can check if they're there with the car on the ground. Apparently it's not uncommon for dealers to leave the last one there.

There's been no indication yet that the ID.3 will receive that new AP550 motor from the ID.7 like the ID.4 and ID.5 have, is there?

Be interesting what efficiency improvements it could bring.

Yes, they work if you are on latest VW software (v3.2).

Simplest method is set the "preferred time" in the car to 2-5. It should start/stop at those times. However, if you want the car to also soak up excess solar during the day you would have to change the car to "charge immediately" when that happens and then back to "preferred time" again when you want a night time boost. Not ideal to have to keep switching like that.

It is probably better all round to manage it all via the Zappi rather than having two sets of timers fighting each other.

Its a bit strange that the car keeps charging when your boost is complete. I presume that's because you have batteries and the Zappi is happy to let the charge session continue thinking its "renewable"?

The original ID.3 has a door lock button (see below, top right lock button) by the mirror adjustor alright but its not a child lock. You can still open the doors from the inside.

This is what it has

What does the new ID.3 have?