lightly>nothing>nothing>nothing>press a bit more>lurch forward towards path/road>lift off>car jams brakes on automatically.

Something to do with the regen settings or one-pedal driving?

@molgrips – It seems to behave like this in both D and B (one pedal) mode when going forwards. It’s almost as if they’ve tried to deliberately make it behave like an ICE auto.. rather than embracing what you can do with the characteristics of the driver controls with an electric drivetrain. The throttle behaviour is closer to my old M135i ZF auto than it is to the Tesla.. which is odd!

A question for the ID3 drivers if I may. My wife has an ID3 registered in July 21 (I think..) and the **** thing keeps yanking on the handbrake and kicking me out of drive/reverse during low speed manoeuvres and it’s pissing me off (mainly from a safety perspective as we live on a main road and it has a habit of doing it, sometimes more than once!, as I’m reversing onto the drive).

I think I posted about this previously and after a bit of digging on various forums there seemed to be a consensus that in reverse if you look over your shoulder and unweight the drivers seat it thinks you’re getting out of the car and jams the brakes on. This is not the case as the car is now doing the same stunt when going forwards! (and I’ve adjusted my reversing tekkers to not unweight the drivers seat as much and it still does it).

I think the issue is partly to do with the behaviour, and more specifically the lack of precision, of the throttle. Our driveway is slightly downhill so when pulling off the drive in the ID3 I’m very gentle on the throttle and the behaviour is thus: press pedal lightly>nothing>nothing>nothing>press a bit more>lurch forward towards path/road>lift off>car jams brakes on automatically.

I have absolutely none of this in my Model 3, where I can just meter out exactly how much power I want very precisely. Does anyone else get this behaviour in the ID3? I feel like VW need to sort the map (is it still a map in an EV?!) out on this car pronto! Thoughts/views on this most welcome.

Thanks

Thank you for the suggestions and giggles everyone 😂

My wife is all over the turtle mat with the fox on it.. although I like the look of the made to measure coir mats one. Rock and roll Wednesday night ordering door mats

As already noted I think a lot of it comes down to confidence or the perception it’s more difficult when the opposite is true. It took about 5 years before I convinced my now wife of this fact and she generally always reverse parks now.

If you drive into a bay/driveway you are less in control of the situation when you leave and may have to rely on other drivers spotting what you’re doing and yielding.

I live about 4 houses from a 90 degree bend on a main road and there is one house in the other direction before a side road so approaching with my house on the left (same as the side road) and with the sharp bend ahead I often need to indicate quite late and just before I brake as I wait for a clearing to reverse into the drive. I’ve had one person tailgating so aggressively they had to reverse to get past me once we’d both slowed to a stop!

I’d say it’s about 50/50 with the neighbours in terms of who reverse parks. The family right on the corner always drive on and it’s painful seeing them reverse into live traffic when it’s not uncommon for cars arriving at the corner to be doing 50mph+ (which is a whole other thread..)

I realise this may seem like a stupid question but how on earth do get into position with the band on the pull up bar?!

I’ve recently reclaimed my garage from the builders and started doing weights again but the pull up bar is yet untouched. I was getting on ok doing a lot of the stuff mentioned above in the summer but trying to get my knees, feet, well any body part really into the elastic sling was nigh on impossible.. I give myself such a slap in the face with the band I’ve never tried again.

I don’t think masi has the mental capacity needed to make the right decisions at pace needed during a race.

Them two jokers at the back pissing around and then Latifi binning it. FFS. And Masi folding like a cheap suit after RB whinged. Unbelievable

Don’t know where to even start with that. What a mess

That safety car wants to hurry the **** up!!

None of the journalists I’ve seen have come close to asking the blatantly obvious questions to Max on driving standards or even stated the position that it’s absolutely ludicrous to be behaving like this at the pinnacle of motorsport. They all appear to be shit scared.

The closest any of them came was Martin Brundle during the Saudi race itself.

Rent free in his head, what a topper! 😂

I am also hoping for a VERY boring race where Hamilton leads from lights out to chequered flag and well and truly hands Verstappen his arse on a silver platter. I said that about the last race too mind and we all know how that worked out!

That ^^^ reprimand is an absolute pisstake. @reluctantjumper has nailed it in a much more eloquent manner than I can manage, hear hear 👏.

Did everyone else’s audio cut when coulthard asked Verstappen about the incident?!

Time to chill and stay within 5s Lewis

Get him off the **** race track

This conversation with FIA AND RB is embarrassing. Why the **** is the race director making them offers?! Just apply the rules you **** cowboys.

That’s ridiculous from Max that

Nervous!

The first layer of barrier has barely **** moved

FFS. Could easy fix that under SC

Aye, properly tense! I was on the edge of my seat screaming all sorts of utter bollocks at the TV

Wow. Verstappen was absolutely on it there, if he had have kept it together until the end and beat Lewis to pole then fair play.

This track is insane mind. 2 full safety cars and 1 virtual in the F2 race earlier. Ganna be bother the morra I reckon.

Buzzing Lewis is on pole 🙂

Thank you very much indeed for all of the responses everyone. Some lovely looking bikes suggested and more in stock than I thought. Looks like there’s a wheelbase down the road from me in Darlo that I may pop into for a look.

As always I seem to be right on the overlap between sizes in a lot of bikes.. a smidge under 6ft seems to land me right in no mans land..

Thank you for the replies and suggestions all. I’d forgotten about CDNE bike sales, I’ll keep an eye out on there and the other local groups mentioned.

Thank you @northshoreniall

Bikes stolen from Low Fell.

Forgot to add, Answer bars and Straitline stem. Please shout up if pics don’t work as I struggle posting images!

E – Also pizza from Mozzas but specced by my good lady so some interesting (read: sub optimal) topping choices. But a good helping of jalapeños and extra cheese sharp sorted that.

D – Beavertown Neck Oil. Glorious

L – Prodigy through my new floor standers. Wife not too happy but our 2 year old daughter seemed happy with a bit of fire starter just before bath time 🙂

Mine arrived today.. Aye, they’re farkin massive. I’m 6ft pushing 16 clem and the Large looks like I’m a child wearing my dads coat.. the arms are a good half a foot too long. Annoyingly it fits well across the chest so I’m worried the Medium will be too tight but it’s a lovey jacket so will probably return for a medium and hope that’s a better fit

The whole thing (no penalty for lat weeks stunt, the fallout where drivers don’t know where they stand overtaking/being overtaken on then outside and now this blatant slam dunk under yellows) absolutely stinks. I’m with reluctantjumper on this one, gonna save my time and money if they start taking the piss with the overall governance of the sport. I hope Hamilton gets his 8th WDC sealing his status as the GOAT regardless of this nonsense.

Aye, the SUV trend is absolutely preposterous. It’s all (perceived) style over substance and it makes very little sense in an ICE car, even less so with an EV. A few people I know have ordered the Volvo xc40 electric thing and it’s not much bigger than my wife’s ID3 inside, the range is the same and it costs an absolute fortune.

Having driven an EV for 18 months and being an absolute convert it staggers me when I see a behemoth ICE X/Q/G/Range whatever wagon on a 71 plate that people still be the **** things. They’re absolutely hideous.. but theres a whole other thread for that so I’ll nip it in the bud there.

Not dated in my eyes but frog eyed and fugly head on at the front (and I drive one!) As soon as you step a few degrees off dead centre I think the front end looks tremendous but my favourite angle is the side profile.

The reason they look so odd is the very low scuttle height and massive windscreen that goes almost to the drivers head. This is accentuated in white (the colour I went for as it was free..) as the windscreen looks black against it and it sticks out like a sore thumb.. BUT, it’s got one of the best views out of any car I’ve driven, helped by the uncluttered dash.

Also agreed re. the chrome looking ridiculous on the model 3. They’ve made it black on the facelift models.

Echo the above. I’ve used them twice (I went to them) for removable swan neck on last couple of cars and found the service and quality to be good, and competitively priced

Loved Totos reaction at the camera in the garage. Gan on son! 😂

Aye was just wondering if we’ll ever get to see that shot bluearsedfly

Verstappens attitude is awful
Team “black and white flag for weaving on the straight”
Him “ha perfect say Hi”

Lucky to not get a penalty for his shenanigans earlier pushing Lewis off the track

YESSSSS!!!!

Well he’s a bit further up the road.. better than nowt

Aye, Bottas was an absolute chocolate fireguard at the start there!

Undercut on the cards here?!

Wow! That is the most I have been entertained all season. Absolutely sublime drive, a master class from Hamilton. That’s how a 7 time world champ reacts to being at the back of the grid. All hail Sir Lewis 🙌

Ahh man! I was really looking forward to them lining up alongside each other at the front of the grid for the sprint. I agree this could be curtains for Hamilton’s title fight. FFS