u/Mean_Investigator431

Hello!

I am 36, never been intimate, in a relationship, situationship, or anything. I have pretty much a nonexistant sex drive. Terminally single, pretty much by choice and just how it turned out I guess? I've never inserted anything into my vagina. No fingers, no toys, no tampons. I exclusively use pads.

Anyway, over the past year or so, my periods have been really strange. They usually only last maybe 5 days, they are usually a week early, if not more. I never know when I'm supposed to get it. Tracking it is a headache on it's own. When I do get it, it varies in intensity. Sometimes pills help, other times they do nothing. Most often it smells horrific. Like a mix of BO and something else I can't really identify. After years of clotting every single time, this past year there have been times I don't clot at all, and other times where I feel like I'm sitting in jello.

More recently, I've started cramping in between periods. I've had ultrasounds done and they can't seem to see anything, but it's getting more frequent now. I'll finish a period and I'll start cramping again the next week. It's not constant mind you, and not as painful as during my period, but I'm getting tired of having them all the time.

I realize that there may be nothing wrong. But I can't get a pap smear because I've never been sexually active. While cervical cancer doesn't run in my family, I'm constantly worried about not being able to get tested. I get calls from my Doctor's office asking if I've been intimate so they can start doing the tests, but it's always a no from me.

Is there any reason to bring up a hysterectomy with my PCP? I don't like going to the Doctor's without what I feel like is a legitimate reason.

I ordered something off ebay and it was set to be delivered this past Friday. I got notification that it was delivered. I get home, go check my box, nothing. No notice on my door. My doorbell cam had no videos of anyone coming by. There was nobody at my residence the entire day. I've bought off ebay many times before and have never had an issue with the shipping address.

I check Canada posts website, and the package was signed for by someone with not my initials and was marked delivered. The package came from a different country and was given over to Canada Post so I can't open a ticket for it.

What are my options? Is there anything I can do? I'm pretty upset as this was supposed to be a gift for a family member and now it's been essentially stolen. I appreciate any help on this.

I'm in Canada so everything is kms.

So, I have a 2024 ID4 Pro AWD that I bought earlier this year. I noticed that after I took it home and charged it a few times over the next week or so, that I was getting maybe 220kms on a full 100% charge. I wasn't sure what was going on, so it went into a local-ish battery certified VW dealership and after a week of diagnostics, was confirmed that "Battery cell #10" needed to be replaced.

2 months later, the work is done, and I've now had the car back for over 2 months and getting almost 390kms on an 80% charge! Hurray! It even handled really well on my first road trip I did in it last month!

So a bit ago, my ID4 had it's yearly maintenance done, and I brought up that the windshield looks a little warped and wondered if it could be replaced under warranty if it was defective. I was asked to get the service records for the car so the new dealership I am taking it to can see if the windshield has ever been replaced. I'm like okay sure... I'd never heard of them asking for records but whatever. I message the dealership I bought it from and they send over the records no problem.

Now before I even bought the car, as a CPO, I asked if there was ever any major work done to the car and I was assured that as a CPO vehicle, it's in great shape and has never had anything significant done to it over the 2 years the previous owner had it. (My bad for believing them I suppose)

So as I'm looking through the paperwork, it's pretty apparent that this HV Battery has had issues from a year into the previous owner's ownership until I bought it this year. It was taken in multiple times for "Charging, battery percentage and range issues". I noticed that "Battery cell #10" was replaced in Sept 2025. Battery cell #10 was replaced again with me in May 2026. Did I just get unlucky or is there something else that could be causing this cell to go bad?

On the paperwork it's saying stuff like...

"Vehicle presently at 9%, cell 73 is the lowest at a voltage of 3.5v, with highest voltage value being cell 81 @ 3.635v. Total voltage deviation between lowest/highest cells is 165mV, exceeding provided spec of 30mV. Indicates that, based on total voltage difference in cell 73/J1000, battery cell #10/J1000 requires replacement. " -Sept 2025

"CHECK AND REPORT ON CUSTOMER STATES THAT AT 100% CHARGE THE RANGE IS ONLY 265KM AND THE RANGE WILL NOT LAST THE 265KM. Replicated and confirmed customers concern, range shows 170km at 75% charge. "

It's also saying "Battery health certificate states 65% residual energy." Does this mean my battery was at 65% health??? This was before the module got replaced with me.

I'm just wondering if this is a sign of more issues down the road. I know it's a little too late now, but I never imagined a CPO car could have HV battery problems that didn't get addressed before it was sold again.

I thought I did enough research, found a model I liked, test drove a few, made a decision. And spent a little outside my budget. Still manageable for sure.

Earlier this year I got a 2024 VW ID4 Pro with just under 40,000kms. After all the taxes/fees/warranty extension, I paid close to $38k. I like the car itself, very nice to drive, looks great and the range it's supposed to get is perfectly fine for me.

While I do very much like the car, I've been having a few minor (and one major) issue with the car since I bought it. The HV battery has had now been open and repaired twice, 2 modules were replaced. Once with me and once with the previous owner. I'm worried this is going to be a recurring thing with this car if it's already happened twice with it and it's an almost 3 year old car. The windshield is also pretty warped in spots, which I didn't notice on the test drive, but after awhile, it's really been noticeable. (I'm talking to a dealership about the windshield)

But after joining this sub, I'm really starting to wonder if I jumped the gun and could have gone with a different brand, with comparable or better reliability, for a much better price than what I paid for my CPO ID4.

I'm starting to wonder if I should look at trading it toward something else at this point. I'm sure it's a bad idea and I'll probably just deal with it. I usually keep my cars for as long as I can. But there are so many "what-ifs" I'm thinking of now.

So, I have a 2024 ID4 Pro AWD that I bought earlier this year. I noticed that after I took it home and charged it a few times over the next week or so, that I was getting maybe 220kms on a full 100% charge. I wasn't sure what was going on, so it went into a local-ish battery certified VW dealership and after a week of diagnostics, was confirmed that "Battery cell #10" needed to be replaced.

2 months later, the work is done, and I've now had the car back for over a month and getting almost 390kms on an 80% charge! Hurray!

A couple days ago, my ID4 had it's yearly maintenance done, and I brought up that the windshield looks a little warped and wondered if it could be replaced under warranty if it was defective. I was asked to get the service records for the car so the new dealership I am taking it to can see if the windshield has ever been replaced. I'm like okay sure. I message the dealership I bought it from and they send over the records no problem.

Now when I bought the car as a CPO, I asked if there was ever any major work done to the car and I was assured that as a CPO vehicle, it's in great shape and has never had anything significant done to it over the 2 years the previous owner had it. (My bad for believing them I suppose)

So as I'm looking through the paperwork, it's pretty apparent that this HV Battery has had issues from a year into the previous owner's ownership until I bought it this year. It was taken in multiple times for "Charging, battery percentage and range issues". I noticed that "Battery cell #10" was replaced in Sept 2025. Battery cell #10 was replaced again with me in May 2026. Did I just get unlucky or is there something else that could be causing this cell to go bad?

On the paperwork it's saying stuff like...

"Vehicle presently at 9%, cell 73 is the lowest at a voltage of 3.5v, with highest voltage value being cell 81 @ 3.635v. Total voltage deviation between lowest/highest cells is 165mV, exceeding provided spec of 30mV. Indicates that, based on total voltage difference in cell 73/J1000, battery cell #10/J1000 requires replacement. " -Sept 2025

"CHECK AND REPORT ON CUSTOMER STATES THAT AT 100% CHARGE THE RANGE IS ONLY 265KM AND THE RANGE WILL NOT LAST THE 265KM. Replicated and confirmed customers concern, range shows 170km at 75% charge. "

It's also saying "Battery health certificate states 65% residual energy." Does this mean my battery is at 65% health???

Did I make a mistake, I thought I had done enough research and believed the stealership with the answers they gave me. I know it's far too late now but how cooked am I? Should I be worrying that the same cell has now been replaced twice in a 2-3 year old vehicle? Has anyone had something like this happen before? I am in Canada so we have no real lemon laws.

So, I have a 2024 ID4 Pro AWD that I bought earlier this year. I noticed that after I took it home and charged it a few times over the next week or so, that I was getting maybe 220kms on a full 100% charge. I wasn't sure what was going on, so it went into a local-ish battery certified VW dealership and after a week of diagnostics, was confirmed that "Battery cell #10" needed to be replaced.

2 months later, the work is done, and I've now had the car back for over a month and getting almost 390kms on an 80% charge! Hurray!

So a couple days ago, my ID4 had it's yearly maintenance done, and I brought up that the windshield looks a little warped and wondered if it could be replaced under warranty if it was defective. I was asked to get the service records for the car so the new dealership I am taking it to can see if the windshield has ever been replaced. I'm like okay sure. I message the dealership I bought it from and they send over the records no problem.

Now when I bought the car as a CPO, I asked if there was ever any major work done to the car and I was assured that as a CPO vehicle, it's in great shape and has never had anything significant done to it over the 2 years the previous owner had it. (My bad for believing them I suppose)

So as I'm looking through the paperwork, it's pretty apparent that this HV Battery has had issues from a year into the previous owner's ownership until I bought it this year. It was taken in multiple times for "Charging, battery percentage and range issues". I noticed that "Battery cell #10" was replaced in Sept 2025. Battery cell #10 was replaced again with me in May 2026. Did I just get unlucky or is there something else that could be causing this cell to go bad?

On the paperwork it's saying stuff like...

"Vehicle presently at 9%, cell 73 is the lowest at a voltage of 3.5v, with highest voltage value being cell 81 @ 3.635v. Total voltage deviation between lowest/highest cells is 165mV, exceeding provided spec of 30mV. Indicates that, based on total voltage difference in cell 73/J1000, battery cell #10/J1000 requires replacement. " -Sept 2025

"CHECK AND REPORT ON CUSTOMER STATES THAT AT 100% CHARGE THE RANGE IS ONLY 265KM AND THE RANGE WILL NOT LAST THE 265KM. Replicated and confirmed customers concern, range shows 170km at 75% charge. "

It's also saying "Battery health certificate states 65% residual energy." Does this mean my battery is at 65% health???

Did I make a mistake, I thought I had done enough research and believed the stealership with the answers they gave me. I know it's far too late now but how cooked am I? Should I be worrying that the same cell has now been replaced twice in a 2-3 year old vehicle? Has anyone had something like this happen before?

I know a lot of people don't want to go to the states at any point... I wouldn't be either... But my partner and I are avid Pokemon enjoyers and we both want to go to the Pokemon Fossil Exhibit that's at the Chicago Field Museum. So we're trying to plan the trip.

I have plugged it into ABRP and it's saying around a 10 hour drive in my ID4, which is fine. It's aiming for 2 stops along the route. I've never driven into the states before so I'm out of my league already. (I don't like Toronto driving when I do go, how bad is it going to be going to Chicago?) Do EVs, with their sophisticated tech, just swap to mph once you cross the border?

For anyone that does go into the states, what apps am I going to need for this? I have the NACS adapter for my ID4 so I was aiming to just mainly use Tesla Superchargers (If the Tesla app on my phone can even start the American chargers), but I've heard Electrify America stations have credit card tap options at all their stalls. Is this true?

This is going to be my first ever long distance trip in my EV, I'm not worried about the charging stops themselves, just how I'm going to have to navigate paying for them. I'm actually pretty excited to see how it goes!

I drive to Windsor, Barrie, Mississauga and Oakville somewhat often. I dislike having a mass amount of apps for chargers installed all at once. Right now I just have SWTCH (My workplace uses SWTCH but it can start Flo chargers from their app too) and the Tesla app. (I just recently got the NACS adapter for my ID4 as a backup on trips)

What are your go-to apps for around Southern Ontario? I have Plugshare and ABRP and have been trying to map out my routes I normally take and trying to see what the majority of chargers around the areas are. I'd love for a universal app for all charging networks please.

Today marks 2 months my 2024 VW ID4 Pro AWD has been at the dealership. I got the call today that it is repaired and ready to go, so I happily went to pick it up!

Just thought I'd post my experience with the whole ordeal, as honestly, it's been a pretty positive one in the end I think. Although time will tell if what was repaired is the only thing that was needed.

In February this year, I bought my new-to-me 2024 ID4 Pro AWD as a CPO vehicle from a pretty well regarded dealership that was quite a bit of a drive for me to pick up. (It was in the GTA and I'm about a 4 hour drive away from there) The sale was smooth-ish, car drove great, nothing on the carfax was giving me red flags, dealership answered any questions I had about the car over the 2 week period leading up to me purchasing it. After signing the paperwork, was only given one key fob, which in the end they did end up getting me a replacement second key, but not after me hounding them for almost 2 months for it. (Who loses the second key for a 2 year old car??)

2 weeks into owning it, everything was good, noticed the range wasn't the greatest, but chalked it up to it still being winter weather. Proceeded to do the software update recallthat was still open on the car, which took 3 days because the car failed it like 6-7 times according to the dealership. Got it back with the new software and all was good again.

Once it got a bit warmer, I was noticing the range just wasn't getting any better. I also started noticing it was losing a good solid 6-8% of the battery charge right after unplugging it, and then it would lose anywhere from 10-20% of the battery charge while it sat overnight. My range at 80% never went above 270kms, even on fairly good weather days.

Ended up taking it to my nearest EV certified dealership and asking them about it. After explaining what I had happening, they agreed to check over the car, since it didn't sound normal to them. So on March 19th, the car was left with them and I drove away in a loaner. a few days later, I was called and informed that while the car wasn't throwing any codes at the tech running the tests, they had run the in depth HV battery test and had to send it off to VW Germany. It got escalated to VW engineers to go over the results, and after another week, was confirmed the car had a bad module and would be fixed under warranty. I was put into a rental the same day it was confirmed. (Was put into a Jetta that got recalled halfway through it so then got a Taos... Yuck. No EVs available for rentals I guess)

Then began the waiting game. Everything was backordered or just took forever to arrive. The service rep I had was fantastic and would call every day or so, even if there wasn't any concrete updates. They were always super apologetic every time. I was just happy to be kept in the loop, and that I wasn't going crazy thinking something was off with the car.

Around a month in, the battery module had arrived, but they were now waiting on the 50-odd bolts to fasten the battery pack to the bottom of the car (I think, or maybe the ones holding the pack closed? I don't remember), as they were backordered. A week ago they finally had a date when they would arrive, and had the car up on the hoist and doing the work they could get done before they arrived. I popped in to check things out and got to see the battery pack out of the car and such, it's pretty cool. The tech showed me where the motors were snuggled above the battery pack, and he explained some of the things he was doing. Tech said he was excited to do that dealerships first ever module replacement.

Bolts apparently arrived overnight yesterday, so it got installed this morning and then I got called later in the day that it was completed and asked when I'd be able to go pick it up! I of course went immediately. While I was there, I asked if there was any way I could get a bit of a discount on the NACS adapter for the car, since the repair took so danged long, as I was planning on getting one eventually. The service manager ended up just giving me one no questions asked. They thanked me for not being upset that it took so long to repair, or hounding them for a repair that is extremely involved, and that they hoped I'd continue to take my VWs to their dealership in the future.

I know some peoples experiences with dealerships are terrible, I know I've had my fair share of yucky ones. But there are some out there that genuinely do try their best!

Glad to be back in my ID4, and hopefully everything is smooth sailing from here on out! Now I get to really learn EV stuff 😄

Today marks 2 months my ID4 has been at the dealership. I got the call today that it is repaired and ready to go, so I happily went to pick it up!

Just thought I'd post my experience with the whole ordeal, as honestly, it's been a pretty positive one in the end. Although time will tell if what was repaired is the only thing that was needed.

In February this year, I bought my new-to-me 2024 ID4 Pro AWD as a CPO vehicle from a pretty well regarded dealership that was quite a bit of a drive for me to pick up. The sale was smooth-ish, car drove great, nothing on the carfax was giving me red flags, dealership answered any questions I had about the car over the 2 week period leading up to me purchasing it. After signing the paperwork, was only given one key fob, which in the end they did end up getting me a replacement second key, but not after me hounding them for almost 2 months for it. (Who loses the second key for a 2 year old car??)

2 weeks into owning it, everything was good, noticed the range wasn't the greatest, but chalked it up to it still being winter weather. Proceeded to do the software update recall, which took 3 days because the car failed it like 6-7 times according to the dealership. Got it back with the new software and all was good again.

Once it got a bit warmer, I was noticing the range just wasn't getting any better. I also started noticing it was losing a good solid 6-8% of the battery charge right after unplugging it, and then it would lose anywhere from 10-20% of the battery charge while it sat overnight. My range at 80% never went above 270kms, even on fairly good weather days.

Ended up taking it to my nearest EV certified dealership and asking them about it. After explaining what I had happening, they agreed to check over the car, since it didn't sound normal to them. So on March 19th, the car was left with them and I drove away in a loaner. a few days later, I was called and informed that while the car wasn't throwing any codes at the tech running the tests, they had run the in depth HV battery test and had to send it off to VW Germany. It got escalated to VW engineers to go over the results, and after another week, was confirmed the car had a bad module and would be fixed under warranty. I was put into a rental the same day it was confirmed. (Was put into a Jetta that got recalled halfway through it so then got a Taos... Yuck)

Then began the waiting game. Everything was backordered or just took forever to arrive. The service rep I had was fantastic and would call every day or so, even if there wasn't any concrete updates. They were always super apologetic every time. I was just happy to be kept in the loop, and that I wasn't going crazy thinking something was off with the car.

Around a month in, the battery module had arrived, but they were now waiting on the 50-odd bolts to fasten the battery pack to the bottom of the car (I think, or maybe the ones holding the pack closed? I don't remember), as they were backordered. A week ago they finally had a date when they would arrive, and had the car up on the hoist and doing the work they could get done before they arrived. I popped in to check things out and got to see the battery pack out of the car and such, it's pretty cool. The tech showed me where the motors were snuggled above the battery pack, and he explained some of the things he was doing. Tech said he was excited to do that dealerships first ever module replacement.

Bolts apparently arrived overnight yesterday, so it got installed this morning and then I got called later in the day that it was completed and asked when I'd be able to go pick it up! I of course went immediately. While I was there, I asked if there was any way I could get a bit of a discount on the NACS adapter for the car, since the repair took so danged long, as I was planning on getting one eventually. The service manager ended up just giving me one no questions asked. They thanked me for not being upset that it took so long to repair, or hounding them for a repair that is extremely involved, and that they hoped I'd continue to take my VWs to their dealership in the future.

I know some peoples experiences with dealerships are terrible, I know I've had my fair share of yucky ones. But there are some out there that genuinely do try their best!

Glad to be back in my ID4, and hopefully everything is smooth sailing from here on out!

I saw that you can nickname your ID4 in the VW App, was curious what people named theirs, I'm hoping to get a fun inspo for mine!