What a nice car!
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 5:05 pm
Hi. I recently bought an ID 3 Business Pro Performance in Manganese grey with 19” Andoya alloys and a heat pump. It had been pre-registered by the main dealer I bought it from, but that meant that I got about £6k off, and it was in stock. I saw it advertised on Sunday evening, and it was delivered on Thursday afternoon. It had 46 miles on the clock, 40 of which were the delivery miles from the dealership to my house. It has the latest version of the software installed, and I’ve had no issues that were not RTFM related so far. I had been planning to change my car later in the year, but this deal just sang out to me. The car is my preferred colour, it has the bits I would have specified, they offered me a very fair trade in on my old Golf, and money off so I took the plunge, and I’m really pleased that I did.
One oddity I noticed after having it on my drive for a couple of days is that it doesn’t have the decals on the C pillar. Happily, I prefer it that way, so for me it’s a plus! I don’t have a home charger yet. That’s being fitted next Wednesday. I’ve gone for the Ohme to pair with the Octopus Agile tariff. Until then I’ll be charging in the wild, but fortunately there are plenty of rapid chargers around locally.
I must say, the sales guy at the dealership was a total chocolate teapot. I feel I bought the car in spite of his ‘assistance’. He obviously knew absolutely nothing about the car. He had no idea what a heat pump was, couldn’t tell me anything about the software version, and kept going on about how good the fuel efficiency was. This is a sales guy in a major Volkswagen main agency! Even when he called back after ‘speaking to the technical people’ he just waffled on about something totally unrelated to my question. Fortunately he was just there to facilitate a purchase I’d already decided upon and had already spent a couple of years researching, so in my case he didn’t really make any difference. If the rest of the VW sales force are similarly unprepared for the ID range though, I don’t rate their chances of success very highly.
Anyway, rant over. I’m very pleased with the car. It’s a pleasure to drive. It’s very spacious and comfortable. Apple Car Play is a dream! I like the slightly higher driving position too. Still getting used to the techy fiddly bits, but I’ve found lots of useful tips on these very pages that have saved me from the tender mercies of teapot. Looking forward to the time when we can get out and about more and take on longer trips than down to Tesco and back.
One oddity I noticed after having it on my drive for a couple of days is that it doesn’t have the decals on the C pillar. Happily, I prefer it that way, so for me it’s a plus! I don’t have a home charger yet. That’s being fitted next Wednesday. I’ve gone for the Ohme to pair with the Octopus Agile tariff. Until then I’ll be charging in the wild, but fortunately there are plenty of rapid chargers around locally.
I must say, the sales guy at the dealership was a total chocolate teapot. I feel I bought the car in spite of his ‘assistance’. He obviously knew absolutely nothing about the car. He had no idea what a heat pump was, couldn’t tell me anything about the software version, and kept going on about how good the fuel efficiency was. This is a sales guy in a major Volkswagen main agency! Even when he called back after ‘speaking to the technical people’ he just waffled on about something totally unrelated to my question. Fortunately he was just there to facilitate a purchase I’d already decided upon and had already spent a couple of years researching, so in my case he didn’t really make any difference. If the rest of the VW sales force are similarly unprepared for the ID range though, I don’t rate their chances of success very highly.
Anyway, rant over. I’m very pleased with the car. It’s a pleasure to drive. It’s very spacious and comfortable. Apple Car Play is a dream! I like the slightly higher driving position too. Still getting used to the techy fiddly bits, but I’ve found lots of useful tips on these very pages that have saved me from the tender mercies of teapot. Looking forward to the time when we can get out and about more and take on longer trips than down to Tesco and back.