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VW "We Connect" App

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#1 · (Edited)
Having registered my newly bougt 65 plate GTE on "car-net" recently, I was informed by VW that the original subscription had run out last September and that I would need to pay £55 to use the service for another year. I duly obliged and downloaded the app to my mobile device. It seems to work reasonably well, although can be rather slowl in updating vehicle data at times.

However, yesterday, the "car-net" app on my phone wouldn't work at all, presenting me with a message that as of 6pm, the service would switch over to the "We Connect" app, which I was to download from my android app store. Having done this there seems to be very little difference by way of information supplied, other than that I have to enter my password into the app every time I use it, instead of it being able to recognise me from my fingerprint as it used to do on the old "car-net" app.

Has anyone else been forced to make this change in order to use the car-net service?
 
#4 ·
Visually it has improved and provides you with more information. But on Android no fingerprint recognition. Luckily I have an Android and an Apple phone , so not a massive issue for me.

As this is the first iteration of weconnect and the preferred method for connecting to all EV's/hybrids then I'm sure this will be updated regularly.
 
#5 ·
Yup, face recognition works well on my iPhone. Looks better and seems easier to use. Still takes just as long to set a departure time though, but at least it worked I guess!
 
#6 ·
Did a 48hr. test drive of an e-golf and setup the car-net app, which switched to we-connect. Seems better all round from looking at it via iPhone/iPad and also web portal. Looks like its evolving well and will need to with VW commitment to EV's.
 
#8 ·
The map function made me laugh, if you pull up the points of interest you’ll see a pump and charger, press that and see your nearest Petrol station, there seems to be no option to quickly find charge points as the graphic would suggest, nice and useful, if my car drank Petrol.


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#10 ·
My Carnet app on my Android devices changed to WeConnect without me doing anything. Cue Puzzlement.
Having sorted out what must have happened, I tried logging in. No joy. It refused my password. After a few more goes, I ended up following the 'Forgotten your Password?' route. Put in exactly the same password, which was accepted OK, and entered the app. NO data showing at all. Everything says 'This onlinie service has expired. The services will be made available in the app again once you have renewed them'.
What does this mean? Has a subscription run out? How will I know? Can anyone help, please?
Car first registered in March 2016.
Thanks
Silverback
 
#17 ·
Not working better here. It seemed fine for 60 mins on Monday night, then went haywire. Uninstalled and reinstalling seemed to work until next day. It appears to load and communicate with the car to see information ok; but sent a request to engage A/C or change charge amps, basically any instructions backwards to the car, it throws up error after error.
Been on support line twice, with them asking me to carry out specific tasks, so they can monitor what’s is happening at their end; this has been for the last 48 hours.
Amazing that the old Car-net app that most folk complain about; was 95% good for us; new improved app 95% bad in comparison.
Hoping for a swift response and resolution, as payment for a service that is diabolical at best isn’t much fun.
Roll on having a Tesla for sure!
 
#21 ·
Maybe my security settings are tough, but on my Mac with Safari when I click the "More about Volkswagen We" button it starts a new tab to https://connect.volkswagen-we.com and then Safari complains that the certificate is invalid as the certificate looks for publish.live.ngw.volkswagen.com

Not a brilliant start.

However, selecting the "Continue to portal" button takes me to We Connect for my e-Golf which looks very similar to Car-Net!
 
#41 ·
We got a e-Golf on Friday and signed up to the We-connect App straight away.
Over the weekend no issues but then tonight it won't connect to the car. It says the car is unlocked and driving but can't show me where it is on a map as it says "sorry the position of your vehicle is unavailable. EIther your vehicle is moving or your last parking position was not sent"

Any ideas how to resolve this?
 
#33 ·
Will it be iOS 13 ready next week??
Doesn't seem so based on my experience this morning after iOS13 upgrade; it also crashes after trying to launch and I tried exactly the same approach of delete, reinstall, login and still get a crash. Any one had any joy with iOS 13 yet? I wrongly assumed that given the length of time iOS13 has been in beta then a low risk of any issues was to be expected... it's been very reliable for me up until this point.