VW ID.3

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If the national fleet of cars is everything from brand new to 15 year old cars, only 6 to 7% need to be able to afford the car new, mess around with numbers all you want but it's still a low percentage needed to be able to afford 37k. Or 47k. Or 57k, whatever a new car costs.

The majority never have, nor never will, but cars brand new.

I've only done it once, I'm not doing it myself again. I'm revising the amount I'll spend on a car again in my life downwards all the time. I spent 40k twice in last 2 years but I think I'll be happy buying 4 to 5 year old EVs in the future and keeping them for 2 years. I'm not mad about the idea I can't sell my car without a massive loss which I'm not prepared to take so feel a little trapped in it!

But once someone does, it keeps the show on the road.

Just found this thread, Id started a query elsewhere about this….

Im about to confirm an order for a 2024 facelift ID3, 58kwh. Am I being crazy, or is it a reliable platform now? Some of the stories of glitches are quite worrying.

Who is paying 37k. the discount on list for our fleet purchases is 21%

absolutely no issues with ours. It’ll be fine.

Just bought a 2nd hand ID3 6 months ago, updated to software to latest version, 3.2 I think and the car has been flawless, the user interface isn't the most intuitive, too many options and submenus but hopefully they have tidied things up a little in the new cars.

1st generation cars are always going to have bugs and issues, you are buying a newer model so I would expect they have sorted any bugs, you should be getting a nicer car.

Thanks for that. Just worries and doubts Im having. Its my first EV

I've cupra born which is more or less the same car and my only complaint is there's too much reliance on the screen for controls, was a novelty when they came out but pain in the hoop after a while you'd just prefer a single tactile button. Voice controls for Google maps, phone calls and Spotify etc is decent though

I presume the ID3 drives similar to the born and they are lively, I've driven id4 and id5 and they feel much heavier and more cumbersome, although maybe more comfortable.

personal choice i guess

Are you for real?😮

You must not be driving in the proper position.

Out of curiosity, what kind of roads do you drive on?

I've found the lane assist to be no issue on well marked roads. Generally it might kick in for a second where the lane markings aren't exactly parallel and the car gets a bit worried.

Splits and merges can cause this, but the car only nudges at most, doesn't jerk the car to the side

Unmarked roads can cause it to start nudging sometimes but in general I find it's because I was a bit closer to the edge than the car prefers. Going a bit slower also seems to help, the lane correction is probably more severe when driving faster

I live in rural Donegal, have never in nearly 3 years felt the need to disable the lane assist.

Anyone want to take a guess as to the pricing of the 52kWh Pure when (or if) it arrives here?

The cheapest one I could configure in Germany was around €33k, it'd be nice if they could match that here

However that was a pretty base spec, didn't even have ACC

Yeah, I'm not surprised they cut the spec. There's a decent argument that a 52kWh doesn't need a lot of the creature comforts that you'd want on a long journey

Or at least not as standard

However the old card trick of cutting the price by €1k but ripping €5k of spec out certainly never get old

Still, it's not exactly the worst deal. I priced one in Germany with some basic add-ons (matrix headlights, heat pump, ACC and heated seats) and I think it was just under €35k

I've never had it nudge in the wrong direction. And it only ever nudges when in the wrong position. The car also doesn't have anything near agency, it can be overruled easily

First long trip in my new (to me) 2021 58kWh ID.3 doing Dublin to Achill via Galway and return. Left Dublin about 83% and drove straight to the Brite chargers in Galway retail park arriving with 9%. Nobody there but the ESB across the way was busy. Easy to use and no issues. The car pulled 109kW peak.

I got a fairly high charge there and that was enough to land into Achill about 50% which was my plan. Return leg stopped in Westport for lunch and a short charge on EasyGo (50kW only) and then onto Ionity Athlone. I arrived into Ionity with 12% and pulled 115kW which was the highest I'd seen yet. What's the max on the car?

Overall very happy with how the car went. Speeds were mostly 110km/h GPS on motorway on the way down and then whatever was posted on lesser roads. On the way back I did posted and 120km/h GPS on motorways.

My only slight niggle is that the car could be a bit better on corners but I have a feeling that may be the tyres. Dealer put some ditchfinders on the front and originals are on the rear.

Has anyone noticed something funny with the brakes, it happens me very infrequently that I've not bothered to post about it a few times now.

When I'm coming to a stop from a slow speed like for example in slow moving traffic or approaching a stop sign while in D mode, I've noticed that sometimes the pressure needed to stop the car is not linear, like if I apply 20% pressure I'd expect to stop eventually but not abruptly, where as I've noticed the car kinda feels like it hasn't engaged the brake at all in some cases and then I need to hit them hard causing me stop much more aggressively.

Could all be in my head, but thought I'd ask!

After a quick google, it looks like a known behaviour of switching from regen braking to traditional braking, poor design imo and quite dangerous

https://www.speakev.com/threads/id3-brakes-revisited.166215/

Maybe check if eco assist is enabled? That can override the brakes to try and recover energy, but I think it can only apply more braking force rather than less

I finds I get full use out if the 52kwh. It’s a 55kwh battery

Oh there's a limit alright and it will cost you around 8c per Km if your contract ends but under half rule this doesn't apply :-) well, it didn't in my case and it was a very nice way out of paying another 21 K to own the POS.

The half rule is where you have paid half the total loan on the car, you can then cancel the contract without any penalty or issue showing up on your financial record.

It applies to Hire Purchase and PCP but I don't think it applies for personal loan.

In the end you are far better off getting a car on Hire Purchase, PCP is a fools game in the end and you can end up wasting a lot of money on new cars every 3 years.

If 700 a month seems expensive then get a 2 or 3 year or more old car because PCP is not going to be cheaper and it means less money goes into savings as you will most likely be tempted to change the car rather than face up to that balloon, especially when you see the interest.

Save up over 3-5 years what you'd pay on a car and put it in an investment savings and lock it away for 5 years……..Spend as little as possible on cars.

I'm older and wiser now lol.

My mileage was what made it expensive and that was 20K kms less a year the dealer put me down for lol. but you're caught either way, big deposit for cheaper monthly payments and big balloon or , less deposit, lower mileage and large GFMV, aka the balloon. No such thing as cheap pcp, if a car costs 40K then it costs 40K the only real difference might be 0% interest but then the shock of higher interest if the cash isn't there for the balloon, the stick is the balloon the carrot of course being a new car every 3 years, no, it's a bad way to buy cars to be honest.

Too much tax on cars too, just not worth it in the end, they depreciate too much, in my case the depreciation was insane, granted if I had got another PCP it might have worked out that they would have at least taken the car but I would have ended up getting another new car it's just not worth it to "hide" the depreciation or balloon. It's the 3rd time I got nothing for trade in, basically handed back the leaf and BMW i3.

Anyway that's my 2 cents having gone through it 3 times I won't do it again, I understand why people do it, it's too tempting but there you go but no matter how you slice it a new car never makes sense vs older car, the tax alone is enough to put a sane person off new cars.