A little bit (based on my first ~3,500 miles) but no more than my son’s 2025 VW Tiguan or my other son’s 2023 VW GTI. Frankly the whole VW Group needs to do better…
There are several functions under connect sub… but what about charging subscription: it was about 25€ month if you wanted lower price per kwh at superfast charging stations
It doesn’t work for my MY25 as well… actually, i tried twice.
It’s easier to forgive bugs on a responsive, well designed, with good interface central system.
I see your point, though I gotta tell, I used to be in that camp, but a decade in 4 Teslas made me see it's not so simple.It’s easier to forgive bugs on a responsive, well designed, with good interface central system.
It’s a lot harder to swallow Spotify crashing in error after waiting 3 minutes for it to start
You are absolutely right, not every car has problems. The spread of problems is the largest surprise to me. I have also done 80000km (about 50000 miles) and my car has had so many issues and problems. Sum up all the dates and it has spent more than 6 months in the workshop over close to 6 years.
I mean, Taycans have their fair share of frosted windows issue due to failing heaters.I see your point, though I gotta tell, I used to be in that camp, but a decade in 4 Teslas made me see it's not so simple.
For example, none of the Taycan bugs I ever encountered became an immediate safety issue, or damage my car. Tesla's did; on one occasion on a coast-to-coast trip, I found out the hard way that Tesla messed up the front windshield defrost logic, so I found myself doing 70mph on a dark rural highway at night in Indiana, then it got very humid, so I turn on the max defrost and my window glazes over with ice near instantly. It was not fun, and it was dangerous to drive with my head out the driver's window to find a place to pull over. I got on the forums, what do you know, a known issue, fixed the very next day via OTA, but it could have ended really badly.
On another occasion Tesla decided it's a good idea to automatically unfold side mirrors whenever the car starts moving (i.e. goes from 0mph to 0.01mph). It was a workaround to a bug Tesla couldn't figure out, where sometimes one or both mirrors would not unfold when getting into the car. After the update, my wife drove her Model S to a place where she's been going for over a year. The parking sports were tight, so she got in the habit of folding the side windows after getting into the car so she could backup and clear a concrete column. Well, the car starts backing up, and decided to unfold the just folded mirrors just in time to crush one of the mirrors against the column. Tesla refused to pay for the damage (according to them you're supposed to read all the fine print release notes every OTA, which sometimes happened 3x per week). Oh, Tesla changed the speed threshold of when the mirrors force unfold from 0.0001 mph to 15 or 20mph a week or two later, via OTA. Too late for our car.
There are of course examples where quick fixes are much preferred, like the battery faults risking fires. Taycan's 9 month long stint with the alarms randomly going off, etc.
What I'm saying is there are two sides to this story - there is no clear winner. In case of Tesla, they also abused OTA do do things like disable features that previously worked, or sell unfinished features which were never delivered because they always had a CYA of "we're still working on it", a good example would be FSD my my wife's 2017 and 2018 Model S'es - according to the description, those cars were supposed to drive my friends and family around, while driving to Tesla Ride Sharing Network making me money whenever I didn't use them. A decade later, do you think either of those model year cars will ever do that? If you think so, I got a bridge to sell you.
Agreed on price. I feel I am a fairly heavy user of connect: go on long trips, don't really use CarPlay, stream apple music for days, use PCM navigation, use insurance mandated tracking service and I still think its overpriced.
