18 days in and a few hundred miles and still boing free. Maybe it's sorted on the new models as the salesman assured me?
To be fair, if I’d just spent the thick end of £50k on a brand new Golf and was faced with that cacophony I’d give them a month to sort it or a rejection would go in and I’d get something else (there’s a plethora of new AMG A35’s knocking around for less money) or get a bus pass.
Unfortunately mine didn’t get going until the car’s second birthday
Must've been some driver to hand your arse to you in an ID3. The suspension is pretty forgiving, and the fat tyre sidewalls do also mop up the knocks. Could imagine going between 30 and 60 is going to be an advantage on a car with no gearbox and instant torque, even if its well down on power.
This was no high speed wannabe-Evo mag roadtesters doing a cross country run, just a couple of yokels cutting through the back lane in sh!te weather going briskly but cautiously in case of standing water or another yokel buzzing through in the other direction with limited passing points.
The way the ID picked up speed from say 20mph up to around 40 or 50 and coped with the surface was impressive. The GTI was mostly off boost with the DSG napping.
The gulf in power is less than you’d think really as power quoted for the GTI is at the crank but the ID’s power would be less affected by transmission losses so closer to quoted power at the wheels where the GTI would be far less than 300PS at the wheels. Then stiffer lower slung suspension, turbo dead zones, DSG delays…
It was just an interesting experience watching him gain ground between the bends without either of us remotely pushing the cars. Real world performance.
On a different road a different story.
Also interesting was the ID guy was driving without his brake lights coming on despite the challenging country road which shows good EV control. The EV taxi I was following this morning had its brake lights coming on and off non stop which was as annoying as my bongs as it had huge brake lights which were very bright.
On off, on off, on off “bong, bong, bong” …
