VW ID.3

I had the 3.2 update done recently. Updated without any issues. The update containing the shop arrived via OTA while leaving the dealers. After adding the main user the apps were visible in the shop from the car UI. Online contract renewed for 3 years after they were installed and my mobile app started to work again.

I was able to add a location in the charging section. Was looking forward to finally being able to set the charging time period. I still think it is flawed. I set a start and end time during the night. No departure time. It does work, but every time it keeps changing the drop-down for my home location from timed charging back to "charge immediately". Really frustrating. Have to remember to change it from the leaving-car screen or else it will go back to charging immediately when I plug in at home. I have forgotten this a few times and I needed to stop the charging from the mobile app. Unless I am missing some setting to make this stick?

Loaner car was a manual t-cross. I forget how soft braking is with an EV motor compared to non-EVs. First time putting my foot down in the t-cross was a pretty swift stop.

Other minor changes that I have noticed after the update: The rear lights come on when you unlock the car. It also doesn't continuously beep when driving on the N7 around Naas when heading back to Dublin. One slight turn there would always beep until the yellow line in the left-hand lane turned back to a white line after the road straightened out. I could never position it in the lane that would stop the beeping. All good now.

I don't have a 1st edition, but I did get a drop link replaced. I didn't know about it being a known issue, I got my neighbour to have a nosey as I could hear and feel the rattle. He diagnosed the drop link and suggested that I chance my arm and ask for a warranty repair as 2 years old is too young to have it packing in. I asked, they replaced under warranty.

Yeah I had priced the part around €20 I think and the neighbour wouldn't have been hard to pay. I was surprised they agreed under warranty, but given what @KCross has revealed, I suspect they were aware of it being an issue and that's why they didn't argue.

330km range in winter/autumn on a 58kw with 70,000km happy enough with that! How are ye finding the winter/autumn performance?

at 80% im getting 260km ( linear approx would suggest 325km ), Im at 23k total, 58Kwhr and mainly doing motorway + city +rain. Have noticed the temps <10 really take a bite on the battery range. Also doing small <5k journeys in city (3 different trips in one day all 1-3km) takes about 10% in the current weather im finding.

Current ID3 owner on a PCP that's up in April. Have been shopping around as ideally would like something with a bit more space. Knew that trade-in offers from other brands would not be great but have actually been shocked by some offers or even being flat out told would not take it.

Just wondering if others have had similar experiences.

New Kona was probably top of list, but also looked at the Niro and MG5. I definitively got the impression that a lot of garages don't want to touch an ID3

The garage that wouldn't take it as a trade-in said they had been offered only 10000 in the trade for a similar car last week. Had a test drive in another garage who said would call me later with figures as they hadn't taken an ID3 before and needed to come back to me but haven't and suspect it's because of what am trading in.

Other offers varied between 16-21 k. Not too interested in changing to a newer ID3 and the ID4 just doesn't look like good value. Knew wouldn't have much equity but surprised that some wouldn't even consider taking an ID3.

Would you be better off looking at a private sale?

Not sure if its related but I had a top strut mount bearing replaced last year, it had been creaking from around 6 months but took a lot of time and work to convince them that it wasn't normal. The creaking started again recently and I'm booked in for yet another 'investigation' and hopefully a proper fix this time.

Thats a different issue I think. Strut and drop link are different parts.

I didn't have any creaking. In fact the car was rock solid in terms of driving, just that when you drove on rougher roads there was a rattle and it was getting worse.

What causes creaks at full lock when stopped? I was turning full lock to the right as my missus had the door open in my Born and it was quite loud.

The OP indicated that trade values of 2-3 year old ID.3’s appear to be well back. Hence I wondered if the GFV of the PCP agreement would provide a solution without the hassle of say a private sale.

Of course I could do that but as pointed out it is likely not to make sense. The GFV I think is around 14.8k. Cheapest ID3 I can see on DoneDeal at the moment is 22.8K.

My preference is for something a bit bigger and with at least similar range but ideally more. I would have no issue with VW but I think the price of the ID4 is way too high considering the alternatives.

I'm guess I'm just surprised by the hesitance of dealers to take an ID3 for trade-in and was wondering if others had experienced the same.