ID.3 software issues continue.
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/7-things-i-learned-from-a-weekend-with-a-vw-id3/It is an interesting review which leads you gently into the issues you might have with the £40,000 model on test.
The infotainment system also isn’t the easiest thing to navigate either, and could do with being more responsive. What’s more, it’s frustrating that a good number of the climate controls are embedded within it.
As it goes on, they start giving more problems.
The ID.3’s launch was delayed by some well-publicised software issues, and it looks like there are still some faults to iron out. On our first drive, the ‘Mode’ button gave audio feedback but did naff all else, and we also experienced some odd issues with the cruise control.
Yes, well, the mode switch might not be that much of a problem depending on what it is blocking. But the cruise control?
On one drive on a 70mph motorway, the ID.3 kept automatically adjusting the adaptive cruise control to 44mph (70kmh). Later, on a 60mph road, it kept trying to put the car down to 37mph (60kmh). It also had a habit of slowing the car down when overtaking lorries.
I would put this kind of fault at alpha test level, nice to see that VW are testing on their customers.
But when you learn the problem....
This seemed bizarre until we learned the ID.3 has a known software issue which means UK market cars occasionally behave as though they’re being used in a country that drives on the right
OK so tell me if I am getting all bent out of shape over nothing here, but a car of this supposed calibre is actually supposed to be able to work out where it is?? Or at least do as it is told in "dumb" active cruise mode?
But the clincher is how they pass it over with.
but we do know a fix is coming in January.
We do know that competition for Tesla is not easy, but is this really the level of competition?
What irks me most is that this vehicle with low Highway mileage, 60 miles less than wltp range estimates on average driving and some serious software issues, gets a recommendation as if it were prime vehicle.
Even gnoring the games they are playing with mentioning subsidies and ignoring UK tax costs at certain price points, this vehicle is hardly world shaking. But customers are going to read these reviews and buy them because the reviewers are not doing a fair comparison.
Is this really the best VW can do? Not that I had much time for VW cars anyway, but this does not do much to instil any further confidence.
Could you imagine what reviewers would say about Tesla with this level of delivery?