Cindy's thoughts on our VW Id.3 after 15 months
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Have Cindy on more often, she’s a great car reviewer. Very insightful.
She does not want it more often.
You two make a great team together!
@@BatteryLife noooooo 😭😭😭😭
Excellent tell it as it is review. Cindy has a talent for getting to the knob what matters. Wish all car reviews were like this. One of the best 'real world reviews' ever. Take care you two.
Not like Bob where you hear nothing about the car. Useless reviews
@@bdeithrick :) Ah now don't be too hard on Bob, I was very disappointed with his ID4 GTX review which said hardly anything at all about the car, but was more a monologue rant about public charging infrastructure. 'Its just another trim' is incorrect. AWD with dual motor makes a big difference and he made no mention of how or why. I'm interested in AWD for traction capability not performance. Cheers
God, you’re one of the loveliest couples on the Internet. Thanks for this video!
Thank you!
Excellent. This kind of review is so valuable. Real world, honest and having lived with it for a long time. I expected the heating and touch controls wold drive you mad (Cindy did mention she kinda gave up on them) but I get the impression you can learn to live with them.
Back window: I removed the center head rest. Just a small change, but really helps, if you don‘t have 3 people in the backseat all the time.
Viewing the video a second time, I did wonder why I didn't have the keyless entry... So I went into the menus and found the option to activate it.
So it was previously set to only unlock the door I touched with key in hand and now it is truly 4 door unlock when nearing the car (without pressing keybuttons)
So thanks for the video to get me to activate that option.
Cindy is great! Her descriptions of the cars is spot on!
Just ordered the ID3 with standard seats. Now I wish I have wold have ordered the sport seats. Great review and Cindy is very entertaining.
Great review and what a lovely couple you are.
Great to get straight forward honest feedback from someone who is not a geek. It's so easy for us geeks to get into details but reality is comfort and simple usability and Cindy gets that.. Thanks
I actually watched all of that one. Some interesting insights. Thanks guys.
Enjoyed the real world review. There are things you learn overtime both good and bad.
I like Cindys jacket. One of my favorite bands 😀🤘🏼🇸🇪
My wife is 5ft so will have to make sure she’s ok with the seats.
Really helpful.
Great review by Cindy. ID3 is awesome (eventough the seat heater being weak) and insonorization and suspension is much much better than in Model Y.
The seat heating was made weaker in the VW Group after customers burned their butts!
Much love to you and cindy from Basrah-Iraq .
Great video Cindy and Chris.
You mentioned the blinker sound. That's one thing I took note of when I did a test drive. At some points I felt I had to look for the blinking arrow to see if it was actually on, because it was so silent. I guess one gets used to it. BTW I'm finally getting mine around the 20th, ordered it on June 30.
Thanks Cindy, great review, my Mrs is a similar height to you, so we will be paying close attention to the seats and will inist on a long enough test drive to test comfort.
She’s great! Well balanced review.
Very useful review, my wife is also very short so perfect to know these problems.
Heated seats not warm… Whaaaat! Ours are very hot and max for us is on the middle setting (no 2). Are all your heating elements working. Ours is the family model , built March 2021. I can’t appreciate the seat comfort issue , however one thing to bear in mind they aren’t designed for 5ft tall people.
There are other cars with better ones. We like it hot.
@@BatteryLife correction: it seems you like your butts being boiled 🔥 😂 Me and my daughter have to dial it down to level 1 after a few minutes. ID3 Business 11/20.
Lovely honest appraisal, thanks
Iw driven the ID4 with the "standard" seats and didnt like them at all, but the ID4 GTX with the sports seats,, 🥰.
Belive/self esteem can truly move mountains,, 😅. Lane assist on,, 😂.
Cheers and thanks Cindy and Chris,, 🍻🍻😎👍👍❤️❤️
I love Cindys hoodie! Amon Amarth 😘
Very informative.
We are hoping to collect a 2 year old used 1st Edition at the end of the week. Only 12,000 miles on the clock. Cheaper than a new MG4 and soooooooo much better. 🙂🙂👍
So nice, great video! Thx a lot
Ok, quite some good remarks by Cindy...
For me and my wife the seats are fine and comfortable enough. The non illuminated toch buttons on the center panel are quite stupid as you do have to search for the hearing options. The suspension for some roads in Belgium can be 'choppy' (as many roads are concrete slabs of five metres lengths). The media system asking at each start of you want to be online or offline is really stupid - VW should make that dumb question disappear. Of course you always want be online.
Getting in and out of the car is easy as it higher than a regular sedan. The Id3 is quite more of a SUV height. I never had tinted windows before and it offers more privacy and if you forget something on the back seat it isn't visible from outside the car. Range is more than sufficient for us. Sound proofing makes it a quiet ride although the all season tires we have are a bit loud.
The choice of some plastics in the interior are a bit shabby for VW standards but let's be honest about it, I touched those plastics just a couple of times in the beginning and that's it. Nobody touched or feels those plastics more than couple of times. But the parts that you do touch all the time are indeed better and decent enough.
The combination of driving assistance aids (cruise control + lane assist + distance to car in front) works really well so that I drive quite a distance more relaxed. It even slows for roundabouts, drives around it (I do the steering of course) and after the roundabouts of resumes the set cruise speed. All very nicely done. However sometimes it gets alarmed to easily by a cyclist or a parked car on the right side of the road and slows down the car abrupt. That is a little annoying to me and the other cars behind me.
I did say that range was sufficient for our family but in the winter you see the range dropping quite faster than expected. So driving a 11km real distance drops the range (prediction) by 20km. If you do drive a longer distance this seems to level better for actual distance and drop in range guesstimate. Our Hyundai ioniq 2018 is more consistent for range guesstimate in winter but the Id3 had much better heating (very much appreciated by my wife).
The three kids love the space on the back seats. But a little bit more space in the trunk would be good.
Overall a good car...
"What she thinks of my...eh our ID" :)))....anyway, thanks for the great video!
Lots of good information.
My wife has similar “height” issues.
The seat will definitely be an issue. Also we both enjoy the heated seats in our Golf which would be a shame to have to drop down to something less effective.
She also drives very few miles.
Overly complex controls would put her off driving too.
I’ll m due to change in two years and the iD3 is something that I was thinking about. Seems the obvious choice. The Kona is also well up there. But I see there are lots of annoying issue with the VW, which mostly I’ve picked up from yourself. Thanks for the real world feedback.
You guys are great! Love your video's, thank you. I'm trying to decide if ID3 is for me, your vid's have told me all I need to know, just need to make a decision.
About the seats. My wife, who is only slightly taller than Cindy (1.60m) loves the seats. Moreover the ID.3 is the first car we both drive without having to adjust the seat height after the other drove the car. In my previous car she had to raise the seat to the max in order to get a good driver's view causing me hit the head liner every time I entered the car after she drove it. With the ID.3 we only have to adjust the interior rear view mirror when we switch
Hi. Thank you Cindy for your advice. Chris, one small thing. In this video Cindy is on the left side but her voice is on right side. Of course, it's not a big deal.
I'm 181 cm tall and I got backpain really easily in the ID.3. Driving to the Netherlands was quite a challenge (from Munich). I now drive the Fiat 500e, no backpain, even on those long drives. For my wife the exact same thing as well. Although the suspension of the ID.3 is much more comfortable than the 500e, my back doesn't hurt in the Fiat, so overall it's better for longer journeys.
It made me realise how important seats are for car comfort, more important than suspension, sound insulation etc. I drove the ID.3 for six months btw, and I never got a comfortable seating position on long journeys. I'm not sure why though.
I have 1st Max. Driven more than 40 000 km in less than 16 months. No back issues.
That is weird. I have a Golf 8 with the cheap sportseats and a T6 comfortline. Can sit for days in them. VW must have messed up in the id3.
Nice and useful - lady is a good communicator !
Really great video!
Great video! Cindy is an awesome reviewer. A maybe solution for her seat 💺 height could maybe to add spacers to her seat rails to help with her legs problem.
Cindy likes the lane assist - hilarious!
Love the Amon Amarth Hoodie. One of my favorite bands
Yes, they are awesome! They kind of lost me after Sutur Rising though. They are still good, just not omg good. Everyone has different taste though 🤘
Respect on the amon amarth shirt
Well, about heat...depends from person to person...i had a really bad episode of shivers (had to drive "now" and didn't change my clothes (as from inside home) but once i got out from house toward car i was freezing/shivering with no control) and the heater in the seat made it posible for me to get going, i mean driving - but also, after 8-10 min i was uncomfortable (it was on max lvl) so i had to reduce it :) But if i'm wearing my "all-time" jeans, 2 "stars" out of 3 is max i can go with for more than few minutes :)
The lane assist camera is high up, so it can see the lines better right in front of the car.
That should also help in the fog. But well, Chris said, it works only over 60 km/h.
So keep an eye on the green lane assist symbol. When it's not green any more, lane assist is off.
But many thanks for your thoughts about this car. The other reviews are about kWh and seconds to hundred and that stuff, but almost nothing about how practical the car is, does the trunk feel big or rather small and so on.
How is the ride. Almost no one really said that the model y suspension feels hard over bumps, or the steering of the Y is too direct, to nervous at higher speeds, that's important. And it's important to know that the ID3 feels good even on bumpy roads or cobblestones. And so on.
So, many thanks for your in depth review about things that we never hear about for any car. (Was that too big? No, that was just right, these topics are not often covered. Well, even less than not often ;-)
Thanks!
🙂🌏 Good to have a feed back from a person seeing it as a car 🙂
That was a lovely narration about placebo lane assist...!
Change to Cupra's seat for her!
Seats generally need adjustable seat cushion length and side bolsters. People come in all sizes.
I'm 200cm tall and worried about the ID.4 seats with their lack of lumbar and adjustment. No issues on a few long drives - phew!
Cindy should review the kia EV6, she would love the toys on that spaceship. 😄
When I drove all my Golfs the seats were always the worst thing about them (I’ve owned 7 of them a new one every year for a good few years). Worst of all was the GTI seat. I’d still be driving them if this one area was better. I’m 188cm, my wife is 150. Other cars are doing a better job on seats, come on Volkswagen these are the things you need to fix along with the quality of the interior of the newer models, I expect more from you.
I have the same dog blanket. My dog chewed through the mesh though 🙃
One thing about seat heaters: my second car at home is a Hyundai ix35 but I definitely prefer ID.3 seat heaters because in the Hyundai they heat too much and my back burns after a couple of minutes.
It's a matter of taste
So, line assist works well on narrow country road in fog with pale lines - or at least appears to :o)
Have to say that the seats in my Max is a lot better than the Plus - I tried a Plus for a couple of weeks and the difference was quite big, I think. But I'm not particularly short, though.
Hi Chris. I think it must be Cindy who buys the next car for you, maybe she should just upgrade to a Max 1'st version. I have even better lights in mine with matrix and shorter seat cushion in the seat and it can be adjusted in length from very short legs and to long legs and with good support in the kneecap. Test it right at the local Vw dealer ;-) Say hello to Cindy and say she's good.
I have same lights. Max seats are only 1cm shorter. We drove one.
'.. I'm not the youngest anymore .. ' come on lady, your man can be happy found such attractive woman!
Her man is happy
Hi Cindy and Chris,
I'm considering an Id3 but at the last minute I enquired about a lumbar support as I didn't think that the seats were that supportive and I have a bad back. The dealership here in Ireland found out that you can't get one in an id3. I'm driving a golf SV and I love the car and the seats but I want to go ev.
Other than the seat, I love the id3.
Kevin.
hi Kevin, i'd say to go for a test ride in it because I also have a bad back but in id.3 i feel better than in my other car. But then again, i only have the car for half year, drove it for about 4000 km for now and longest continous drive was for 5-6 hours, so not that much but still ok for my back. But i cannot "know" your situation.
Hi Chris and Cindy. Nice and informative video. 👌 I fully agree with Cindy's assessment. In general I am also a satisfied ID.3 owner. But what really annoys me is that from the delivery of my ID.3, I have the now heavily dated navigation version 21.3! While I was able to get the major system update 2.3.0 over the air without any problems! I have been contacting VW Connect Support for a month or two, but unfortunately nothing has changed so far. I have tried all the tips and tricks in the meantime, no results. It makes me desperate. My car will be at the dealer next week and I hope they will succeed.
That annoys me, too. I think I still have 21.2. What tips are there? I have tied to download it to an USB Stick, but it did not work. I did not try factory resetting.
@@peter11102 Hi Peter. ID Furkan has some tips on updating the navigation system, such as factory resetting. I wish you a lot of succes! ruclips.net/video/Nz9eAZnd4eQ/видео.html
@@hansderoo7640 thank you, I wish you good luck, too.
Lane assist, the cameras in most cars (I don't know about VW) tend to use infra red which can see better than you in rain/fog/dark. So, certainly in the Tesla the lane recognition does not have a problem with seeing the lanes in terrible weather, and I am sure that is the same in most cars.
There was an easily detected, not bad at all, German accent and then she started talking and kept me wondering. There was a moment of "Scottish?" then later "Irish?" and then she referenced "Canada" - not important at all, but I'm still wondering.
On another level, smaller bodies have a larger area relative to their volume - area increases with a second power but volume with a third. An elephant has an easier time in stone cold African nights than a mouse and will overheat less easily too.
But then, when a woman says she easily gets too hot, she really has me wondering.
I am from Canada. My native language is english.
Cindy is great complement to your views Chris, super combination. But she hates the cold so much is she truly Canadian? And she says Aber 🤣
As I told you several times its a pleasure know what think your wife about cars. Seriously.
Cindy - you probably didn't hit the whatever when reversing, the abrupt stop will still be the brakes. In my ID.4 I was convinced I'd hit something - got out and still had a gap!
Same for all of us :))) My family still gets worried that i've hit something while parking and i have to reassure them that no, is just this car' breaks that go on without me pushing that hard while parking....
13:33 - Interesting how different the perception is. "There is one sign..." vs. the typical german "Schilderwald". :-)
No need to explain everything Chris, she is capable of doing it all on her own.
I think he was OK. If he hadn't have said something, you'd have thought he was a dumdum
@@jellyd4889 He was great , as always, so was Cindy. Nice to hear a different perspective every now and then.
It's a pity one cannot buy a replacement seat but it seems like the only solution is an even fatter cushion.
2:30 What if you sit in the rear?
I had ID3 from 16th of December and heated seats and heated steering wheel work very well. I would say having heated seats on three is a bit too much. I wonder if VW improved this on the later versions of ID3
Mine is a 1st edition and the heat from the seats is great. Today it was 3C and I had the seats on either 1 or 2. Love the steering heat too but always have mine on level 1. Don’t understand that they’re not happy with the heated seats 🧐
Do you booth maybe have the premium seats with the massage function? I have and the electric heat is also very strong on this type of seat.
@@SuperGURU_Ben no I have the cheapest spec car
Could you drive to Zwickau and tell them to get mine finished I've been waiting 8 months.
Great work Cindy, we’re considering an id3 when the lease on our Kona runs out….. daft question…. does the logo on the hoodie represent a band??? Which band please x
Yes, it is a band hoodie. The band is Amon Amarth.
@@schehf just listening…. loving it …. thanks 🤘🤘🤘
Just looked up ID3 turning circle. I'm surprised it's better at 10.2m than my 3 door Golf Mk IV at 10.7m. Newer Golfs don't seem to have great turning circles, so for a city car that is definitely progress.
It helps to have motor in the back.
Cindy is not that short (i'm only 4cm taller, so maybe i'm biased) but I have to tell both of you about this magical place called Queensland (Australia) where no one want to pre heat their car (I have seat heaters on one of my cars and never used them).
@timemachine_194 It would be if you could buy one, unfortunately EV's are still more than double the price of a comparable ICE vehicle, but I'm hoping someone will spot the opportunity to dominate the Australian car market by selling an affordable EV, our local car sales industry is complaining about the lack of sales in the last few years but most of the EV's available in Europe are not available here.
Keyless entry makes relay attacks easy to use.
LaneAssist camera might be better than some humans vision :) (but yeah above 60kph)
Im 6 ft and i have to lower the seat not to sit under the roof. This raises my legs to uncomfortable position, the car interior in the basic mode its like half the car is missing..
Is the seat heater broken? My one is too hot after 5min on the highest level.
No, we like it hot
sorry for the translator, I have to use deepl my english is not good to explain myself better, but one question what about the seats of the cupra? do they bother you like the id3 ones?
Pretty much the same.
@@BatteryLife thanks a lot :)
I had this car and the Polestar 2. The infotainment system on the ID3 is from 2005. Honestly compared to the Polestar the difference is night and day. I didn't at first think it mattered much to me, but after a month in the Polestar i found the ID3 very irritating.
If I remember correct you have a 1st Plus? I have a 1st Max, and the seats are way better. Electriv adjustment, massage and adjustable length to satify peaople with short or long legs. Maybe you shold swap the passanger seat with one of those?
No, same seats, just adjustable. Same length. We had one for a while.
Travel Assist does actually work under 60, so Lane Assist should be active as well.
lane assist only above 60 kmh
Did you ever try the seats in a Citroën e C4? French seats are a much better fit for smaller people than German seats, which are for big, heavy people.
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Don't know how, they did it. The id3 looks smaller than my toyota chr but i think its bigger
I am surprised there is no mention of the ID3 App as HUGE negative - specifically that only one person can be logged into the car at a time- how crazy is that for a family car which may be shared by two or more people!! If you are watching VW PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP.
She does not use the app. Never has.
whoaa.. Audio left/right speakers swapped!
I know. My mistake
Thx Cindy & Chris! 👍🏼 I drive an ID3 as well (10 months so far). My question: with the cars available now, would you buy it again?
I have the ID3 via the VWFS Abo and I have to say I would not go for the ID3 again, I will give the car back when my new one arrives. There are lot of pros similar that Cindy & you mentioned, but this piano black (I know you have white interior), the software bugs (I have 2.1SW), the fact that after one trip in rain the ‚black‘ back of the car looks like I did not wasch it for months, the seats I don‘t like either, the hard plastic everywhere, it just looks cheap, but it is not 😦 well, it was worth the try, first EV, but it will likely not be VW anytime soon again
Yes I would.
I have the same experience and agree with your conclusion. There are loads of good things about this car but we're having to change cars (will get a Polestar or EV6) and would rather keep our 6 year old golf GTE and part exchange the ID.3 than part exchange the GTE and keep the ID.3. My green conscience will prickle me for some of the longer journeys in the GTE but 80% of the time that battery is big enough (usually 35-45 kms range) and the interior and feel of the car is sooooo much better.
@@BatteryLife but would Cindy 😁.
Dirty hatch door is just a matter of physics, it's the same on, let's say, a Golf. However, if your point is that it is extra vivid on black paint - than i'm not a fan of black hatch too.
If lane assist kicks on at 60, I assume you mean 60 km/h (37 mph)? Does Germany have a lot of two lane highways that are under 60 km/h? Most two lane highways in the US are like 35-50 mph. Most over 40 mph. It sounds like she could see the lanes, but barely, so it's possible the camera could see the lanes. She just seems to like the extra confidence of having the system to back her up. Personally I can't stand lane keeping assistants. Lane centering is nice, but lane keeping is just super annoying.
60 km/h. Country road, strong fog. She was not driving a lot above 60.
15:55 😅🤭
When is your lease contract up and would you pay 38000 euro for one? List price in Belgium.
Sep 2023. I would buy it again.
We had the same seats and with 178 cm the passenger seat is also horrible.
Everybody is different. I am 180cm. I love the seats.
I hate heat seaters. Maybe this is the car for me?
Hello beautiful people
More reviews with Cindy. A womans angle is nearly always informative.
Ask VW if the Cupra seats would fit in your ID.3
Id3 can have the sport seats now
Hopefully Cindy gets another seat, touch wood 🤣
Need people's opinion about the ID3. Because I am going to buy the car. And are spare parts available? And what about maintenance. Is this car worth it?
That is too much to type. I have 150 videos of this car on the playlist. Maybe that helps
I think you wife would like the model S
Chris, buy a child seat for Cindy :o))
Nice review - is Cindy Canadian
Yes, she is.
Update - ok, she did mention Canada 🇨🇦 so I'm assuming yes. Love her familiar accent - and since you're in Germany Cindy, punch VW in the head for me, will ya ? We can't buy the ID3 here and now, we can't even buy a Golf !
🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻👏🏻
Where is she from? I always try to guess where an English speaking person is from on the basis of their accent. My guess here is Canadian.
Correct
Placebo lane assistant 😂
Is this a serious Review? The seat sucks? The trunk is still big? How about something on range? Hearing? Charging speeds? Range in cold weather?
You don't get it, eh? I did many reviews on this car about your topics.
This is the review of a person who just wants a car and get from A to B.