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Another confirmation. I did the same thing a few weeks ago on a new SportWagen (I've been shopping for another e-golf but the Volvo wagon that was my long drive car when I had the e-golf finally pushed me over the edge). The dealer had never heard of it but accepted it after making a few calls.

Thanks for the info. That's $800 under their best advertised price.

Thanks for this! I've been keeping my eye on SE pricing. The only thing I'd really miss from my '15 SEL is the LED headlights. I actually kept one with a few minor scratches that I thought I might use to convert (assuming it's plug-n-play) but the HID kit looks like a solid alternative.

It depends. My wife scraped another car in a parking lot several years ago. The fix for the other car was close to $2k (I had liability-only on the car she was driving) and our insurance was unaffected. YMMV, as they say. We insure a number of cars and have a 20 year history of not running...

I'm going through this right now and I agree with everyone else that you should have it repaired. I was days away from buying out my own e-golf lease when my wife hit a red-light-runner. A friend of mine suggested I just show up with the car and say 'here you go and here's the other driver's...

Awesome. Thanks! I've been wondering this for ages. So "90%" charging is comfortably in the mid-to-upper 80% range. Maybe not where you want it 24/7 but probably just right for timed charging.

Is there any evidence that the e-golf battery does not charge cells to 4.2v at 100%? I haven't seen it and I've been reading this form as long as you have. I can't find a link now but Tesla owners have actually measured 4.2V at 100% in the S/X.

You repeat that as fact but I've never seen actual data to support it. Do you have a source?

I went with delayed charging to 90%, assuming hitting the immediate charge button would cause it to charge to 100%. Not so. It does start immediately, then stops at 90%, then it will continue if I start it again. I haven't charged to 100% in probably two years and thought there might be some...

That's lame. I just checked - mine is only about $100/yr more to insure than my old and cheap Volvo V70R (the Volvo does see 50% more miles annually). The 360, at 1/4 the yearly mileage, is about $250 more. Come to think of it, the Volvo is nearing the "time to go liability-only" stage of...

It's not really draining faster, there's just less capacity available though that seems pretty dramatic for 2 years old. To your question, I haven't observed a loss of range. It's surely happened but it's not dramatic enough to notice. My car is a year older than yours. I just extended my...

I'm dead too. Stuck with a 90% charge timer. I guess that will have to be OK.

Assuming CarNet works the same in Canada (also assuming you're in Canada :) ), pre-warming via the app while you're still plugged in helps that initial spike in consumption.

Wow. Thanks for saving me from myself.

Thanks so much for doing the legwork on this. I've decided to buy my '15 - hopefully I can find one with Android Auto. EDIT: It looks like I need to get the part number 6RF 035 187E to get Android Auto without doing my own firmware updates.

'15s have a minimum charge setting. The car will charge to that point as soon as you plug it in, then stop until the scheduled charge time arrives. Did that go away in newer cars?

Wow. Thanks for that data point! Very few e-golfs in NJ but I've seen dealer asking prices of 16-18k for '15 SELs which seemed nuts. My buy out is $13 with no sales tax.

Please provide a source for that. Several people have estimated the early cars use ~22kwh of the ~24kwh pack which is about 91% (and where you got that number, I assume) but there is no way VW would go from true "zero" to 91%. That would be crazy and begging for bricked cars. While you may...

Thanks for posting these updates. My daily charge is 80% - 90% in winter - and I don't drive a lot of miles (14k in 2 years) so I don't really see degradation.

I can recall no evidence showing what the true percentage "100%" on the gauge relates to in an e-golf. 100% in a Model S has been measured to be a true 100% (4.20V/cell I think). The Roadster was limited to 95% IIRC. With 20-50 miles per day, I charge to 90% most of the time. 80% in summer...