[id44warren]

I read about the ID.4 "poor weather lights the other day and used them on a couple pea soup fog commutes. Apparently it just turns on the side lights that light up when you are turning, but every bit helps in those conditions. I'm still contemplating the add-on driving lights...

 

[id44warren]

After 1 year and 2 months of ownership, all is well. I have driven it 21,900 miles. It looks like maybe the TSB for the "settings randomly resetting" bug may actually be ready for the dealer to apply it. That will be fantastic!

 

[Spin]

It looks like maybe the TSB for the "settings randomly resetting" bug may actually be ready for the dealer to apply it.

Service Bulletin number is 91-24-03

 

[id44warren]

Service Bulletin number is 91-24-03

Thank you Spin! The VW service writer found it. He said it was just for the ambient lighting resets. Good enough for me! I scheduled for Tuesday 2/27 to have them fix that and the side badge that catches on the door when it gets heated by the sun.

 

[Spin]

Thank you Spin! The VW service writer found it. He said it was just for the ambient lighting resets.

It does not surprise me that a service writer would spew misinformation. The ambient lighting resets are only part of it.

 

[DBatz10]

Service Bulletin number is 91-24-03

Taking my car in so they can fix a bent sunshade frame (I think they did this when they replaced the sunshade motor) and will have them address this as well.


Thank you for sharing!

 

[id44warren]

I took a couple hours off work and got to the dealership today and they said that they would take longer to do the service bulletin than I could wait for and that they didn't have any loaners available. So now I'm rescheduled for March 22nd. Ugh! 😣

 

[DBatz10]

I took a couple hours off work and got to the dealership today and they said that they would take longer to do the service bulletin than I could wait for and that they didn't have any loaners available. So now I'm rescheduled for March 22nd. Ugh! 😣

I have mine in right now for a sunshade motor and track replacement, and the dealership is going to try and do the service bulletin work as well.

Funny story about the sunshade is they replaced the motor and then found that the frame for the sun shade was bent. After ordering a new frame and installing it, They found the motor they had just installed doesn't work and had to install a third motor. Dealership to this point has been really helpful and easy to work with so that's a plus. Even gave me an ID4 as a loner.

 

[id44warren]

Cool! Let us know how it went!

 

[id44warren]

Over the weekend we took the ID.4 on a roadtrip from the Chicago area, through Quad Cities to Iowa City. We were going to take the 20MPG Highlander but decided at the last minute to take the ID.4. That's about a 170 mile trip. For the first leg of the journey I charged to about 90% at home. Weather was warm (about 65F) with a headwind out of the west, and I was driving on the interstate at about 75 MPH, so my mi/kwh were down around 2.5. We met friends in Quad cities for El Pastor Tacos and some craft beer. Battery was down to 30% by then so I decided to stop at a Shell Recharge in Davenport which was very hard to find as Google wanted us to park behind a hotel and walk to it. After driving around a while I finally found it hidden in the back of a parking lot. There was magic marker writing on the charger that said "This charger is always broken". Actually it one of the easiest chargers to start that I have used so far, kudos to Shell. The touchless credit card reader wasn't working but the magnetic strip reader did, and then after some negotiating it charged at a blistering 125kw, up to 100% in 50 minutes for $22. In the meantime we walked to a nearby bar and used the bathroom and got some refreshments. Then it was on to Iowa City to visit my sister, where we arrived at 50% charge. The next day we headed back to the Chicago area. Temps were warm again but there was a monster 30MPH wind out of the south that was pushing the cars and trucks all around. Mi/kwh were down around 2.2 across Iowa and into Illinois. We went out of our way to stop at the only Electrify America within 150 miles, in Genesco, IL for a free charge. It dispensed 125kw charging and went from under 30% to 90% in 30 minutes while we got to visit the worlds smallest Walmart. The last leg had sections going north so mi/kwh improved greatly but I was still down below 30% by the time we got home. The car worked great and I was able to find charging mostly where I needed it so I was a happy camper.

 

[id44warren]

I forgot to plug in my car when I got home from work. It takes about 40% of the battery for the round trip, more or less depending on the weather, and I usually charge to 80%. It's been cold so I was at about 37% charge. Not enough! I charged for about 30 minutes and decided to live dangerously, head to work and just take it easy. I drove slower and coasted a lot and made to work and home with 7% to spare, woo hoo! This means I could save a lot if I drove more efficiently! Will I do that? Probably only when I have to!

 

[Atlant]

I forgot to plug in my car when I got home from work. It takes about 40% of the battery for the round trip, more or less depending on the weather, and I usually charge to 80%. It's been cold so I was at about 37% charge. Not enough! I charged for about 30 minutes and decided to live dangerously, head to work and just take it easy. I drove slower and coasted a lot and made to work and home with 7% to spare, woo hoo! This means I could save a lot if I drove more efficiently! Will I do that? Probably only when I have to!
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It was pretty clear to me that my Chevy Volt, driven gently in the Summer, could make it to and from my place of work on single charge. (On weekend country drives, just puttering along, we'd gotten as many as 50 electrical miles out of my “35 mile range” Volt.)

One summer, I conducted an actual experiment along these lines. Each day, I drove at no more than 55 MPH to and from work (a ~38 mile round trip). About eight of those 38 miles are suburban; the other 30 are on a 65 MPH limited-access highway.

And yes, in one sense, the experiment was a success. I proved that the car could reliably make the trip on a single charge.

But in another sense, the experiment was a failure. Not only did my trip take much longer than when driven at my usual, keep-pace-with-traffic 75 MPH on the highway, those were dead boring miles, just plodding along being passed by everything, concentrating very hard on keeping my speed down and just waiting, waiting, and waiting some more to finally arrive at the highway exit. And other folks on the highway clearly were not happy with me plugging up the road (even in those parts of the road where the speed limit is 55 rather than 65 MPH so I was actually traveling at the speed limit). So it was dangerous, too, as folks executed ridiculous maneuvers to get (blast?) around me. (Yes, I was in the right-hand lane.)

So nowadays, I'm back to driving at highway pace and since the time of my experiment, “highway pace” has now increased to ~80 MPH. And I gladly take the range hit because of the improved commuting experience.

 

[Spin]

It was pretty clear to me that my Chevy Volt, driven gently in the Summer, could make it to and from my place of work on single charge. (On weekend country drives, just puttering along, we'd gotten as many as 50 electrical miles out of my “35 mile range” Volt.)

One summer, I conducted an actual experiment along these lines. Each day, I drove at no more than 55 MPH to and from work (a ~38 mile round trip). About eight of those 38 miles are suburban; the other 30 are on a 65 MPH limited-access highway.

And yes, in one sense, the experiment was a success. I proved that the car could reliably make the trip on a single charge.

But in another sense, the experiment was a failure. Not only did my trip take much longer than when driven at my usual, keep-pace-with-traffic 75 MPH on the highway, those were dead boring miles, just plodding along being passed by everything, concentrating very hard on keeping my speed down and just waiting, waiting, and waiting some more to finally arrive at the highway exit. And other folks on the highway clearly were not happy with me plugging up the road (even in those parts of the road where the speed limit is 55 rather than 65 MPH so I was actually traveling at the speed limit). So it was dangerous, too, as folks executed ridiculous maneuvers to get (blast?) around me. (Yes, I was in the right-hand lane.)

So nowadays, I'm back to driving at highway pace and since the time of my experiment, “highway pace” has now increased to ~80 MPH. And I gladly take the range hit because of the improved commuting experience.

I tried that when I first got my 2010 Prius. I only did it for a short time because driving 55 on the Long Island Expressway was not the safest way to travel. I was able to get 63 MPG from a car that was rated at 50 MPG.

 

[id44warren]

At 1 year, 3 months, I have driven 23500 miles. The Pirelli Zero tires still have 1/4" tread in front, 3/16" in back. On 3/22 I will be leaving the car at the dealership for Service Bulletin number 91-24-03 to fix the random settings resets, and getting a side emblem replaced.

 

[id44warren]

Took the car in at 8:30 and it was done about 4pm. I got a Tiguan R loaner, which was a step up from the Taos loaner I had last time. They replaced the badge that would catch on the door in hot weather, and applied the SB patch. The car seems to be fine after the work. We'll see after a few weeks!

I saw these ID.4 shirts at the dealership. Fun!

 

[id44warren]

I enabled the defogger in the VW app over the weekend and it did defog the windshield before I needed to drive. It was the first time I had used it. Several days later I noticed it was still enabled in the app. Was it running all this time? Does it just keep running until you disable it?

It snowed a wet sticky snow on the way into work today which of course disabled all of the front sensors and cruise control. Whenever I would stop I'd get "maneuver braking disabled" message. I'm sure it will be fine after this melts off.

No issues with infotainment resets since the SB 91-24-03 patch!

 

[SunWizard]

Does it just keep running until you disable it?

No it only is on when the remote climate is on, which is timer limited to 30 minutes. I think of it like a mode switch. It really is a de-icer and is great for that. The Max. Defrost button is much better as a defogger since it uses the AC and works in <2 minutes, and defogs the side windows too.

 

[id44warren]

No it only is on when the remote climate is on, which is timer limited to 30 minutes.

Well that's good! So the defogger is only turned on by the app when I'm running the climate control system from the app?

 

[SunWizard]

Well that's good! So the defogger is only turned on by the app when I'm running the climate control system from the app?

Correct, and you have to remember to toggle it on before climate or it does not work.

 

[id44warren]

After 15 months and 25,000 miles, my ID.4 is still going strong. No infotainment resets since the patch a month ago.

I think I have finally decided to just add a single small round light in the bottom outside diamond on each side of the grill. More marker lights than something to see by. I need to make a small insert that fits in the diamond opening to angles the light straight forward. I wish I had a 3D printer!

Something like: