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dlockers said:
What was your speed?


Haha 2 here but my wifes BF will kick my ass if I am late
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Well as I was on the autobahn, speed was 75 and on occasion 80:p

You would do 230 on an eco run. I did a drive from West Midlands to Burnley return at 56-60mph just before Xmas. Minimal heating and it seemed to be downhill on the way back. I just wanted to see what the car was capable of and how many charger suggestions I would get along the way. I wouldn’t want to do that again tbh, it was dull as ****.
 
f666 said:
So not going ahead with a new lease with them anymore...
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Brokers are mainly rubbish, just get them to draft up a contract and find out who the funder is. They'll have to stipulate the exact car you are getting, it's not like they can just make it up.
 
Journey said:
Brokers are mainly rubbish, just get them to draft up a contract and find out who the funder is. They'll have to stipulate the exact car you are getting, it's not like they can just make it up.
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Tbf I'm not seeing any decent EV lease deals at present. I suspect most OEMs are hedging that the government review of the ZEV Mandate due by mid Feb will bring some concessions and therefore they are waiting until March before they commit funds. Suspect brokers are getting deals pulled hence the inconsistency. Personally I'm waiting to see what the market looks like in mod 25.
 
dlockers said:
Even v2 only has cloth seats? You lose pano and wheels but that doesn't bother me. Maybe winter pack for heated seats is worth it.
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I went for V2, I really wouldn't consider the V1, too much missing.

Winter pack is heat pump and rear seat heating. For the cost, it's really not worth it.
 
Blinking car didn’t charge again last night :mad:


Plug in, have to select charge at preferred times (every time - it doesn’t remember to even though it’s set at home). It connects to the charger but then the car never wakes to charge at 11pm.



Never had such an infuriating car in my life. Up to 16 issues on it now :/
 
MrRockliffe said:
Blinking car didn’t charge again last night :mad:


Plug in, have to select charge at preferred times (every time - it doesn’t remember to even though it’s set at home). It connects to the charger but then the car never wakes to charge at 11pm.



Never had such an infuriating car in my life. Up to 16 issues on it now :/
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What charger are you using?
Are you scheduling via the car, or via the charger?
 
MrRockliffe said:
Blinking car didn’t charge again last night :mad:


Plug in, have to select charge at preferred times (every time - it doesn’t remember to even though it’s set at home). It connects to the charger but then the car never wakes to charge at 11pm.



Never had such an infuriating car in my life. Up to 16 issues on it now :/
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Are you with Octopus?
 
Yaayuh! said:
What charger are you using?
Are you scheduling via the car, or via the charger?
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Charger is a dumb charger, so scheduling has to be done on the car.


The way it’s set up is you add the current location as a preferred one, then set the charging times for it.


It should then remember to charge at preferred times at this location, and it did for a couple of days. But now it’ll just revert back to charging immediately each time.


ver01@ said:
Are you with Octopus?
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EON




Edit: this reminds me. I’ve been speaking to apple about GPS issues with CarPlay. I’ve done loads of diagnostics with them, and they think the issue is the GPS on the car, since CarPlay will use that rather than the phones one in most situations (I.e. newer cars). Another thing to add to the list :P
 
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smallstool said:
Loving the Intelligent Octopus Go Tariff, at least 6 hours at 7p to charge car, batteries and power the house - plus loads of bonus hours during the day if I'm lucky :)
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I thought the go tariff was electric car only?


Although checking it seems all home electric.



I’m sure they changed it so that it was car only at 7p and whole home at 8.5 or something



I signed up to EON as they were doing 6.7p for longer, and their gas was cheaper. Fixed for a year too
 
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MrRockliffe said:
I thought the go tariff was electric car only?


Although checking it seems all home electric.



I’m sure they changed it so that it was car only at 7p and whole home at 8.5 or something
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You need an electric, or PHEV car and a compatible charger for the Intelligent Octopus Go Tariff (I have a Zappi).

When in schedules the charge and always between 23.30 and 05.00 it gives you all electric and 7p a unit.

I'm lucky to have batteries - so these charge at 7p along with the washing machine, dishwasher etc.
 
MrRockliffe said:
Edit: this reminds me. I’ve been speaking to apple about GPS issues with CarPlay. I’ve done loads of diagnostics with them, and they think the issue is the GPS on the car, since CarPlay will use that rather than the phones one in most situations (I.e. newer cars). Another thing to add to the list :P
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Is it lagging several hundred yards away from your actual position? If so this is a pretty common issue and one that I found on my current car.

There appears to be two solutions;

Switch off auto lock and have the phone awake while using GPS

Connect via USB so the car reverts to wired CarPlay.

I did both initially but found subsequently that it just needs to be connected via USB to the data port in the centre console.

EDIT- as for waking up to find that your car hasn't charged. That is totally unacceptable! Chap at work often talks about his scheduled charge not happening. Not an issue with his 8 mile commute, for me that would often mean rearranging my entire day.
 
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lordrobs said:
Is it lagging several hundred yards away from your actual position? If so this is a pretty common issue and one that I found on my current car.

There appears to be two solutions;

Switch off auto lock and have the phone awake while using GPS

Connect via USB so the car reverts to wired CarPlay.

I did both initially but found subsequently that it just needs to be connected via USB to the data port in the centre console.

EDIT- as for waking up to find that your car hasn't charged. That is totally unacceptable! Chap at work often talks about his scheduled charge not happening. Not an issue with his 8 mile commute, for me that would often mean rearranging my entire day.
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I wouldn't like to turn off auto lock, as I don't want to reduce the lifespan of the phone display.


I do already connect it via USB out of habit, and so that it keeps it charged.
 
The only spec point I had for a charger was scheduled charging and precisely because our first EV was an ID.3 which was rubbish, 99% of people couldn't get the car to schedule a charge reliably or at all, and it took 3 SW updates for it to be marginally better..

I never had a failure scheduling charging using the Hypervolt we ended up with.
 
smallstool said:
Loving the Intelligent Octopus Go Tariff, at least 6 hours at 7p to charge car, batteries and power the house - plus loads of bonus hours during the day if I'm lucky :)
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Same here, just plug and forget (any time of the day). On windy days there is always a surplus of electricity and the car charges fully before 23.30 (never had to override the 7p rate).
 
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Octopus has been good for me. Pretty much all charging at home has been on the 7p rate, even if the cars down at 20%, I can fill it to 100% all at the 7p rate
 
MrRockliffe said:
I wouldn't like to turn off auto lock, as I don't want to reduce the lifespan of the phone display.


I do already connect it via USB out of habit, and so that it keeps it charged.
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Yeah, absolutely fair enough. My one is a work phone so... Meh :p

The other tip I heard was to start navigation on the phone before connecting to the car. Might be worth a try until VW can sort out that particular issue.

So disappointing to hear your experience with the car.
 
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