Hi Folks,
I'm a huge fan of well packaged small cars, with an ol' Peugeot 205 GTi in the garage, an MX5 NC outside, and an '07 Honda Jazz Sport as a cheap van for hauling stuff.
I'm really very madly interested in the BMW i3. I think they are a genius product that would easily do me as a daily driver for a decade. Especially now that they're dipping below £15k in the UK.
However, I work in the insurance industry and as a result I get to leaf through a lot of car data and unfortunately BMW has been an absolute basket case in terms of reliability scores and warranty claims for a decade. Break My Wallet indeed. Really disasterous in terms of electrical issues and engine detonations.
From running through the i3 forum, it seems like the i3 is sadly no exception. I hate the Nissan Leaf as a fun car to drive but if you flip over to that forum there's like one guy wondering about an error he got once. Here it's all insane motorway shutdowns and catastrophic drivetrain errors.
But it's hard to decipher how bad they truly are from a lemon standpoint. At one time on the internet it seemed that every Porsche Cayman/Boxster had real main seal (RMS) failure but from the actual figures it was less than 5% of all models sold.
I want to couch this criticism in the fact that I really love the BMW i3. I think it's actually a future classic that will line up as the next great leap forward in the small car. I think it is a genius product. Not sure about the face, but I love the concept.
Help...
I'm a huge fan of well packaged small cars, with an ol' Peugeot 205 GTi in the garage, an MX5 NC outside, and an '07 Honda Jazz Sport as a cheap van for hauling stuff.
I'm really very madly interested in the BMW i3. I think they are a genius product that would easily do me as a daily driver for a decade. Especially now that they're dipping below £15k in the UK.
However, I work in the insurance industry and as a result I get to leaf through a lot of car data and unfortunately BMW has been an absolute basket case in terms of reliability scores and warranty claims for a decade. Break My Wallet indeed. Really disasterous in terms of electrical issues and engine detonations.
From running through the i3 forum, it seems like the i3 is sadly no exception. I hate the Nissan Leaf as a fun car to drive but if you flip over to that forum there's like one guy wondering about an error he got once. Here it's all insane motorway shutdowns and catastrophic drivetrain errors.
But it's hard to decipher how bad they truly are from a lemon standpoint. At one time on the internet it seemed that every Porsche Cayman/Boxster had real main seal (RMS) failure but from the actual figures it was less than 5% of all models sold.
I want to couch this criticism in the fact that I really love the BMW i3. I think it's actually a future classic that will line up as the next great leap forward in the small car. I think it is a genius product. Not sure about the face, but I love the concept.
Help...