Recent content by gat89

thanks, do you think it makes sense to get a pre-inspection first so I know everything they want fixed before going to a shop to do the repairs?

Hi everyone, my 2016 lease is almost up and I was wondering if I should return it with body damage. I never had a lease before so not sure how this works. I accidentally scratched the car when driving into my garage and in my attempt to correct, I also then damaged the other side. These are...

thanks and will try that, appreciate the help everyone!

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! Really appreciate the thoughts: Some quick follow up comments: 1) Yup I do have a 240V charger at home. My brother actually has the same car (we bought our e-golfs together from the same dealer) and when he plugs his car into my charger, it works. 2)...

Hi all, I have a 2016 e-golf that has worked perfectly for the last 2.5 years. Just recently the car stopped charging with my home charger. I thought it was my charger so I went to my local Charge Point and tried charging there. It was weird because one of the chargers did not work but the 2nd...

thanks everyone... yah the breakers have the number "40" on them so I assumed that meant 40amps =) thanks for confirming!

Thanks everyone and sorry for the delayed response -- I was out over the holidays. So yes, the breaker is on it's own line so nothing else plugs into that circuit. I looked into it and it seems that there are two, I assume "40 Amp" switches which I would think is enough. I'll get an electrician...

Recently every time I charge my E-golf with my ChargePoint, the circuit breaker trips. It's been fine for the last year and all of a sudden this problem emerged. Any ideas what could have happened? It's a bit frustrating because now I need to reset my circuit breaker every 20-30 minutes. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the responses. So basically I think the answers are: 1) I can't skip the maintenance if I am on a lease for a 2016 car (seems like 2015 was free) 2) seems like the 10K check up is fine to take to any service center but the 20K + 30K needs to be done at VW since they need to...

Hi I am due for my scheduled maintenance for my 2016 E-golf. I have several questions that I couldn't really find answer to doing a forum search: 1) is it possible to skip the maintenance and maybe save it for my 30,000K one? How does VW even know if I did my 10K + 20K one? Do I need to show...

I just read this article: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-approves-new-round-of-clean-energy-car-9196199.php So looks like it was approved?

I need to get an EV charger for my house but don't know which one to buy. Just taking an informal poll to see which ones people bought for their homes? Also how easy was it to get the federal tax credit? I haven't looked into it yet but I just assume you write it off your taxes? Thanks!

Hey everyone, so I am at the VW service center and they said no one has ever complained about this problem before. They also said they can't reproduce it so there is nothing they can do. What did people say or what did people do to get VW to replace the unit? I should have recorded it =(

Neil, also I am curious, what did you do when your car couldn't go into reverse?

Neil -- I put the car into Neutral and literally had to find 3 guys on the street to help me push the car backwards. 80nick -- I am SO happy this has happened to someone else. I was so worried I was going crazy. So I can't reproduce the problem but I am bringing it into the dealer tomorrow so...