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Late reply but there's a little plastic strap connected to the charge door. I've had it come loose and prevent the charge handle from seating.

The needle starts moving immediately once you hit high draw. I see it on an uphill merge onto the highway. While things certainly can heat up, I'm going with a basic algorithm controlling the needle, not a thermal sensor.

I was surprised I never received a cheaper buy-out offer but my car was an early one. Maybe they wait until they have a history of auction values. I think that later lessees did receive better offers.

His lease looks about like my 2011 Volt lease. The residual is unrealistically high by approximately the value of the tax credit. To the best of my recollection, my 3yr lease Volt residual was $25500 (63%?) but its actual value when I turned it in was $17k-ish. It looked like they took a real...

Thought: the R-Golf is within 50lbs of the e-golf IIRC.

That was good advice. A reinstall has it "working" again. Still doesn't report any data until you request the climate control, of course.

I was prompted to enter my user info this morning and re-regsiter my phone. Now "No vehicle is assigned to your account". The web site still works. Do they test this stuff at all?

There's no way know if you're experiencing a normal amount of noise but I can confirm three facts about my own car: 1) it makes some noise/vibration 2) it gets worse as it gets colder 3) when it's really cold (12F is the lowest I've experienced), it makes a surprising amount of noise In my...

I thought so too but the Kill-A-Watt is definitely not capable of day-in day-out usage at 12A. Mine eventually melted down when I had a Volt (same 12A rate), damaging the EVSE plug as well. EDIT: I recall that the Edmunds guys melted down a Kill-A-Watt during their testing too.

Unless the dealer has actually performed the swap, I would be concerned there could be more to it than simply exchanging a few parts. You don't want to be paying for their learning curve. US Nav in a '15 is terrible as Ron said. Did Europe get a better one? I know they have charge time...

Check the voltage at the 12V battery with the car off, then on. When I turned mine on, I observed 13.18 VDC initially, settling back to 12.65 after a few moments. At the time, I didn't think to check it before turning the car on.

Woohoo! I get a chance to tell JT to RTFM. :) I initially had similar thoughts but VW does not commit to giving you a new battery, only to refurbishing to the 70% threshold. This was discussed on the FB page and Michael posted the relevant text...

If you really do intend to switch at 3 years I think the lease would have worked out better. There are plenty of variables of course (price of gas at that time, how the batteries age, etc) but you are being pretty optimistic on the value of a 3 year old e-golf. By that time, the "standard" for...

Those numbers look about what I'm seeing here in central NJ. Two suggestions: 1. Even if you want to do the bulk of your charging at work (to save money?), do some charging in the morning at home before you leave. That will warm up the battery a fraction and also let you pre-heat off the...

10% is my rough observation too, in temperatures down to the high teens. Of course that's just the estimate. The only way to really know is to drive it all the way to zero, which noone is going to do.

They all do that. I discovered last week that it doesn't necessarily tune the radio to that station. I happened to notice I was listening to 105.5 once.

What did you get exactly? That sounds really good to me. My local NJ dealer still has a '15 LE and a '15 SEL. Their web site lists both with something like $1999 first payment, $169/mo for about $8k total all-in. 10k miles. I would have paid them $9k total 5 months ago for the same SEL...

I got the 18 mile warning last night for the first time. I was driving fast-for-an-e-golf in 23F weather with the heat on so it happened with 1/4 battery remaining. I arrived home with 9 miles indicated without receiving any additional warnings.

Have you read turtlebud's post? You can learn a lot, all about what he's already done. :)

The width is hurting you too. More frontal area. Tesla was brought up. They had a truly ugly "aero" wheel option for a time and only claimed a 3% improvement in range. Same size tires.