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Around San Francisco the dealerships ask $275 to $450 for the e-Golf's standard 20,000-mile service. That seems like a lot for what's basically a tire rotation and visual inspection. I'm wondering if that's standard in the rest of the United States. What do they charge in your area?

The lease on my 2016 SE is coming to an end, and it's time to find a replacement. Per http://ev-vin.blogspot.com/ I'm surprised how high the lease offers are now. VW has started offering leases on the 2018 eGolf at nearly twice the price I'm currently paying. That could be purely due to the...

I'm trying to figure out if I can make it between SF and Watsonville in a 2016 SE without recharging, because I don't have a fast charger. Per advice from an earlier thread, I looked on EVTripPlanner using the setting "Nissan Leaf (Beta)". It's giving me a distance of 82.8 miles and total...

After 1.5 years of driving an electric car I'm still sensitive to every squeak, hum, and whine. Without engine noise to mask the sounds, there are a lot of possibly normal noises that catch my ear. Last night I was driving on the highway and a buzzing, crackling sound started coming from the...

I've got an intermittent high-pitched squeak coming from the front end. It sounds kind of like the squeal of brake pads getting low, except it's quiet and it goes away after about a minute. It may in fact be the brakes but I've had the e-Golf only a year and I'd expect the brakes to last...

I'm sure this is a "duh" statement to many of you, but having just completed my first full year of driving an EV I was surprised how much my range decreased in the mild winter of San Francisco. Over the summer when the outside temp was in the 70s I was averaging 4.4mi/KwH. In December and...

After Level 1 charging for a year at home, I'm ready to spring for a Level 2 charger. I'm hoping to get opinions about a reasonably future-proof setup. It'll be installed outdoors in my driveway, about 120' from my panel. I'm thinking: - one 50-amp circuit (should I run two 50-amp lines...

In the spirit of the thread regarding the placement of the Eco Mode button right next to the ignition button...if the VW designers asked you for input on the next generation of eGolfs, what's the first thing you would tell them? I'd like simple heater controls from the 1970's: one slider for...

I know that energy efficiency relies on a lot of factors: terrain, temperature, wind, number of passengers, etc. Given whatever assumptions you'd like to make for a real-world driving scenario (i.e. flat road, no wind, 72 degrees Farenheit, one adult driver, etc.) what do you think is the...

There have been a couple of threads regarding the maintenance schedule for the 2016 eGolf because the dealers, the printed manual, and the head unit in the car all say different things. I asked my dealer for a printout of what VW tells the service technicians. Attached is the official service...

After a big rainstorm this weekend I found the floor mat in my rear passenger footwell was dripping wet, along with the carpet beneath it. There was no other sign of water entrance: seats, door frame, etc. were all dry. It was enough to completely saturate the carpet and mat without having a...

I've read several threads about how much people hate the charger locking mechanism. However, I can't figure out how to get my 2016 SE to lock the charger. I live in SF and trickle charge the car overnight in my driveway. I'm concerned someone will come along and steal my cable. As a...