I don’t have an answer to your question but this behaviour seems to have changed for the better in the v2.1 software (maybe v2.0 too). In earlier software it was often difficult to unlock the charging cable, requiring multiple presses on the key fob and/or stopping charging on the infotainment scree...

Congratulations on being an ID.3 owner! As scott28tt indicates, I hope you've had EV experience before. That journey is eminently feasible but EV rapid charging does have its nuances if you've not done it before....

Thanks for highlighting this, but it really hasn't improved my warm feeling at having bought a VW, in fact I now wish I had bought a Tesla. I had avoided thinking "dieselgate" as it seemed unfair to blame VW for past poor practices, but this appears not to be case as the company avoids fi...

A Fully Charged podcast has just been released that is highly recommended. It is a recording of a chat between Robert Llewellyn and Alex Voigt, a sometimes controversial German engineer and commentator on the German automotive industry. The title is a little misleading as the talk is mainly about Ge...

Thanks for the warning. Related to this I've often wondered what would happen if you select R by mistake instead of D/B when driving.....?

Some people have received a printed readme on completion of the recall, which I haven't seen, so an updated version for the new patch may be a step in the right direction. Here is the Table of Contents of the " readme ID.3 Edition 01.2021 " booklet that was left in the car. IMG_3167.jpeg ...

ID.3 1st Edition updated to 2.1 today. There seems to a lot of variation in the versions of various hardware & software components.

If I was in your situation (which I might be soon), I would want to understand a more about the nature of the software issue that led VW to tell you the control unit hardware was faulty and how they made a mistake and actually it is a software problem. It would seem reasonable for VW to be more ope...

My ID.3 has been in the dealership for over two weeks because it failed the 2.1 upgrade due to a faulty control unit. These have been on back order hence the delay. One arrived with my dealer yesterday but it was not required because VW have “updated the software that performs the 2.1 upgrade”. Usin...

A guy who had his car on his WiFi and scanned the network traffic going to and from the car to see what it was doing, there was nothing app-related. He also discovered that the car goes to sleep (ie. drops off his WiFi network) after a short period of time, which is no use for car <> app communicat...

A couple of questions / comments: My VW customer service person contacts me by phone regularly, however I send detailed emails of issues and get back single word or single sentence replies. So on a couple of occasions we have heard different things during telephone calls i.e. it will be fixed by 26...

I have a Ubiquiti external access point near my ID.3 and it is set to WPA Personal, WPA2 Only with AES/CCMP Only encryption. It is broadcasting on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. I was able to connect my ID.3 on v2.0 software without any difficulty. I won't know whether v2.1 will connect just a easily until i...

Unfortunately I join the list of people whose ID.3 has failed the 2.1 update because the "gateway control unit is faulty" and needs to be replaced. I will update this post when I find out how long I'm going to have to wait for one to be delivered to my dealer. If we, the owners of these c...

Unfortunately I join the list of people whose ID.3 has failed the 2.1 update because the "gateway control unit is faulty" and needs to be replaced. I will update this post when I find out how long I'm going to have to wait for one to be delivered to my dealer. If we, the owners of these c...

Well that doesn't look very professional. Thankfully its pretty dark down there.

gwr wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:16 pm Now the weather's warmed up the heating fan still seems to be racing and is annoyingly noisy though I have the A/C turned off and the heating on auto, set to 18C. Has anyone else noticed this?

Yep. It's on my list of issues that I gave to the dealer when I took my car in for the 2.1 update.

Wouldn’t you have though an indicator would have been incorporated in to the dash to show us how warm or otherwise that car battery is? Or am I just being a bit daft ... Not daft at all. My Nissan Leaf has a battery temperature gauge. But then it doesn't have any battery temperature control so this...

Just had a call postponing my 2.1 update (was booked in for Monday). It seems that they are experiencing a high number of failures, many requiring parts, some cars disabled as a result. They’ve had another fail this afternoon and don’t want to add any more to the list until they get clarity from VW...

Most mobile phones' duty cycles are much more extreme than EVs. I'm guessing that your phone goes from full to nearly flat every day. When you want it to be charged you want it done as quickly as possible, except perhaps overnight where (with iOS, not sure about Android) it learns your sleep times a...

Jono wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:28 pm Anyone know roughly how long they had to wait for “ new controller” based on failing 2.1 upgrade?

"Gateway Control Unit": told it needs replacing on 16th March -- new one estimated to arrive on 23rd March.