“Electrical system not working correctly”
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I got that same error as I was about to drive away from VW service of all places, posted here.
They took the car back into the service bay and tried to pull OBD diagnostic codes, but said they didn't see anything useful. I suppose they reset things.
In my case, I also experience a sudden loss of power while driving up a hill just after leaving the dealer lot. You didn't experience that also, did you?
Anyway, I don't really have anything else to tell you about it other than VW service seemed to reset it and the problem hasn't reoccured yet. I don't have any reason to think that you need to go to the dealer to reset it--just getting out of the car and locking the doors for 15 minutes might do the trick if you still have the error symbols on your instrument cluster.
They took the car back into the service bay and tried to pull OBD diagnostic codes, but said they didn't see anything useful. I suppose they reset things.
In my case, I also experience a sudden loss of power while driving up a hill just after leaving the dealer lot. You didn't experience that also, did you?
Anyway, I don't really have anything else to tell you about it other than VW service seemed to reset it and the problem hasn't reoccured yet. I don't have any reason to think that you need to go to the dealer to reset it--just getting out of the car and locking the doors for 15 minutes might do the trick if you still have the error symbols on your instrument cluster.
You don't happen to use an OBD dongle, do you? I had a Veepeak plugged in when the error occurred for me. Just looking for trends.
This just occurred for me. It was fine while I charged at an EA station. I was at 80% when I stopped the charging. When I returned from hanging up the power cable, this is what I was greeted with. Seems to drive OK but when I got in I was curious to see if it would charge so I plugged in my L1 EVSE and got nothing. White flashing light then solid red at the charging port.
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Bummer. Don’t see anything in common with the circumstances when mine occurred.
Hopefully your L1 charging ability returns when the error clears.
Hopefully your L1 charging ability returns when the error clears.
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I took delivery of my ID.4 end of March 2021, have now done over 7000 miles, in the UK.
Just seen this post ... my ID.4 produced this error very soon after taking delivery ... (there are posts about this on the forum and also on the UK forum Speak EV) ... initially VW didn't have a clue, even their road-side diagnostics team couldn't resolve/trace it - nothing in the error log. And it's fair to say that VW UK couldn't fix/resolve it, the matter had to be passed directly to Germany. After a couple of visits to the dealer and remote patches/software upgrades (provided by Germany) the problem stopped - it had occurred a hand-full of times.
The occasions this occurred - there was no common set of circumstances to the "lead up" to it happening - it was apparently random.
To this day - despite asking for some details / explanation - VW UK can not tell me why this happened, the logs apparently show nothing significant - just my pictures to show what happened. Although the updates provided by Germany directly seamed to resolve this problem - no one can enlighten me. I suspect that it is something to do with the "tolerances" for sensors and errors generated as a result that cause this rather alarming message / display, and believe that Germany "tweaked" the error threshold to compensate / kill these off !
Just seen this post ... my ID.4 produced this error very soon after taking delivery ... (there are posts about this on the forum and also on the UK forum Speak EV) ... initially VW didn't have a clue, even their road-side diagnostics team couldn't resolve/trace it - nothing in the error log. And it's fair to say that VW UK couldn't fix/resolve it, the matter had to be passed directly to Germany. After a couple of visits to the dealer and remote patches/software upgrades (provided by Germany) the problem stopped - it had occurred a hand-full of times.
The occasions this occurred - there was no common set of circumstances to the "lead up" to it happening - it was apparently random.
To this day - despite asking for some details / explanation - VW UK can not tell me why this happened, the logs apparently show nothing significant - just my pictures to show what happened. Although the updates provided by Germany directly seamed to resolve this problem - no one can enlighten me. I suspect that it is something to do with the "tolerances" for sensors and errors generated as a result that cause this rather alarming message / display, and believe that Germany "tweaked" the error threshold to compensate / kill these off !
Welp, that much is encouraging. It will be interesting to see if the software update the dealer did was ready in time to be included in the first OTA rolling out now.
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Hey I had a slight loss in power but it was like 3-4 seconds after doing my 60 day check and also driving off the VW lot. Wondering if there is something with these checks that is impacting the vehicle functionality. Sounds like similar situation as mine. My dash didn't go blank and did not have the indicator light as others, but the power in acceleration did come back rapidly after a few seconds....
That makes 3 of us. Starting to sound like a repeatable bug VW could reproduce for fixing.
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I assume you were getting the 60 day checkup as well or were they checking something else?
Yes, 60 day in my case. They also pulled OBD codes due to another error message that happened while I was there.
It's a breath of fresh air to hear someone associated with a big company acknowledge an issue. Thanks, sincerely! Good luck in getting it sorted and hopefully it can make it into a future OTA fix if it is on the car side. I know that in this particular case the root cause could actually be on the dealer's OBD equipment side.
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Can I ask are you referring to the Electrical Drive fault error? or the loss of power?
Also are you able to reveal where your dealership is in the UK (out of curiosity) ...
Actually I just put the L1 in the trunk and went to bed. Dealer was already notified I'd be coming in. When I got up everything was hunky dory... no issues. Dealer is 60 miles from me so I punted and went to work instead. Charged fine twice since with no error. I have an 8/11 appointment already so just documented it for then.
UPDATE: While I have no proof of this I suspect it's related to the coolant system. When this occurred for me, it was 100ºf out and I charged from around 15% to 80%. As soon as I unplugged from charger this was displayed on the screen. The next morning things were OK. I've also charged 6 times since then with no issues but the ambient temps were between 70ºf and 80ºf.
The exact thing happened to me pulling out of the dealer lot following my 60 day check up. Made the right turn, went to accelerate, drop in power for an instant, then every thing returned to normal and nothing has happened since.
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Just got this error yesterday morning after only 380 miles. Did not experience any loss of power. Took it into my VW dealership who connected up and let the VW ID.4 techs remotely connect in and check it out. Apparently it is a known issue happening. Was told they had to purge the cooling lines for the system and then replenish it. After that they drove it and no more error. Said that fixes it on almost every car but a few more had a second step (Which they did not tell me what it is) to correct the issue. Picking it up this afternoon so hopefully all is good.
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It actually turns out that PandaZ is the ID Technician at my local dealership in the UK
(what a small world!) ... we spoke on the phone after confirming the status on an earlier fault on my ID.4 to see if it was resolved (faulty / blinking speed display).The Issue with the "Electrical Drive fault" that occurred on mine seamed to be resolved by VW Germany remotely with some upgrades, but at the time they didn't tell the dealership much else (seemed to be doing some remote diag's), the Log's showed nothing significant - only my pictures taken at the time as evidence showed the error message and lights on the dash !
But what does seam curious / is the mention of "Purging the cooling lines", - when I took delivery of my ID.4 this had to be topped up / pressure tested - may be this is related to the Drive fault error as well?
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I would also add (PandaZ - the engineer who works on my car - can update / correct me if I'm wrong) ... but in conversations with my dealership, and the workshop manager - they have pretty much confirmed when it comes to faults and issues with the ID.3 and ID.4 - much of the knowledge is gained from car's that end up in the workshop (like my ID.4 !) ... not alot of support comes from UK VW, and only when problems are escalated do Germany become involved (which has happened a number of times with mine) ... I'm told there are now a number of ID.3's in the UK (which is helping build the knowledge of the ID range), but ID.4's are still pretty rare in the UK (in over 7000 miles and almost 4 months ownership, I've only spotted 7 on the road!)
The main reason for the lack of ID.4's in the UK is due to the way the UK Government removed the EV Subsidy for car's over £35k, which affected the ID.4 making it effectively £3k more expensive over-night, just at the time of the UK launch of the ID.4. Despite some restructuring of the range/pricing - they will probably remain pretty "rare" as opposed to ID.3's etc !
The main reason for the lack of ID.4's in the UK is due to the way the UK Government removed the EV Subsidy for car's over £35k, which affected the ID.4 making it effectively £3k more expensive over-night, just at the time of the UK launch of the ID.4. Despite some restructuring of the range/pricing - they will probably remain pretty "rare" as opposed to ID.3's etc !
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