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You'll learn to recognize (and ignore) JoulesThief's style on these boards soon. :roll: Your original post was and interesting observation that the e-Golf has the lowest limited speed. I suspect it's because of the trade off between aerodynamic drag and range, but I thought I read that the...

Don't worry, that's typical sarcasm from JoulesThief. Others will probably have more informative replies for you.

He's already been given misleading information by the dealer, there's no need to be so sarcastic when he's coming on here to ask actual owners for real world experience. Yes, the owner's manual has information, but these forums are supposed to be a community that the members can turn to too. :roll:

I pulled into the one at Burlington several months ago... almost stepped in dog 5h!# and the charger was out of order. Never bothered to try again. Pulled into the one at Pheasant Lane a few months ago and they yet operational. Having looked at the pricing plans for NRG and had 2/2 chargers non...

Well firstly, I'm leasing, so I don't need to worry about finding an independent shop that deals with EVs (though I could do the tasks in the 10K service in my driveway). Secondly, it's good to know that the "rack rate" for a service is $199 But I'm still confused by your calculations. The 3...

One bit of follow up from my 10K service. I asked them to check that the TSB 87-15-04 had been applied to my car because I'd previously had the AC failure and while they were there, if they could apply the TSB 87-15-02 to remove the return-to-default behavior of the Climatronic system. They...

I understand the service plans just fine. There's one that covers 3 years and one that goes out to 5. What I don't understand is the prices for individual service visits that you've quoted. In one post you said it was $106 per visit and in another you said $199. I was just asking if those were...

Are you quoting actual prices from a dealer? Previously you'd said $106 a visit... It would be good to know what the 2nd & 3rd are going to cost to know if the package is a good deal or not (it doesn't seem to be).

Well, I can confirm that the first year / 10,000 mile service is complimentary (for 2015 vehicles at least) It was busy in my dealership this morning so I didn't get time to ask their price for the 20K & 30K services, but the service guy did say that the 10K service takes about 20 min. In fact...

Do the dealers publish list prices for individual services? Where does the $106 figure come from? How will we know if it's a good deal or not if we can't compare per-service pricing against the package?

The prices in that link are $149 for 3 years / 30,000 miles for gas & hybrid cars, $456 for e-golf. There is no way that three, mostly visual inspection, services for the e-golf should be charged at 3x the ICE / hybrid rate. The prices at 5 years / 50,000 miles do tip back slightly in the...

Wow. Looking at that plan it seems that the 2016 cars don't even get the first service included. There's almost nothing to that service (unless it's changed for 2016, but I can't think why it would) so the fact they've removed it as a free check is a bit customer-hostile. It's almost like they...

The range estimate is a rolling average and it's not clear how it's weighted between recent and long ago trips. Certainly running the battery down to almost nothing will have an effect on that calculation compared to charge cycles where there was more left in the battery. As RonDawg says, colder...

Welcome to the world of politics. The experts who advise the lawmakers probably come from the industry, the industry certainly has deep pockets to lobby the lawmakers, they might even write the "draft" legislation that probably becomes law with little or no editing. The average consumer doesn't...

That would be a good idea

I don't know where you live and where VW is claiming 190km range, but I'm going to say yes, it is legal. Even VW's recent emissions cheating code was technically legal - the cars passed the tests in the way the tests were conducted. They may never have had similar results in real life, but the...

Thanks for that official list. There's even less on there for 10K than on the list I got from the dealer website when I booked it..! The line you were told about having to remove the battery cells and inspect them one by one sounds like old-school ICE car dealer speak to me... There are over...

Thanks... I'll find out soon!

Sorry if this has been asked before, but the search function won't let me search for 'service' and / or 'cost'... How much are people being charged for the 10,000 mile / 1 year service on the e-Golf? When I leased mine, the dealer talked about a pre-paid package which they offer for other...

Oh yes, that's a different issue - I was quoting the OP. I have issues like that too. Sometimes when I switch sources, the volume goes to zero and there's not a good way to tell. If you press the volume control on the steering wheel the center display shows a tiny bar for volume at the top, but...