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Enjoy, it's a very flexible car. For the first six months of my ownership I only used the REx for about 10% of my mileage but recently I have some family stuff going on 200 miles away so for a few weeks I'm doing big mileage and probably using the REx for about 50% of my driving but it copes...

When my car was with my dealer about a month ago (having charging issue looked at for the n'th time) they mentioned this spline update was on the computer and that they'd do it at the same time. They rang me back later to say that they didn't have the tooling but would contact me when ready. I'm...

At least they told you that :) I sent my dealer an email on Monday telling them about me experiencing this issue and asking if there was a fix and never even got a reply.

Hi Kirp, Seems this is a new problem that a few of us are experiencing. Check this thread out : http://www.mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1748 There's also a post in the i3 facebook group discussing the same thing.

I experienced this problem during my commute this morning. Crashed 4 times in about 15 mins, black screen and then an auto reset/back to the BMWi loading screen.

This BMW press release was doing the rounds a few days ago, mentions some UK numbers. http://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/demand-bmws-electric-duo-sales-i3-i8-soar-1017952673

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Yep, and we can expect that range to drop further when winter really sets in. On Sunday night I drove the 200'ish miles back from parents which is something I've already done several times in my i3 and I usually arrive back with plenty of juice in the tank (after a fill-up midway). This time it...

Anyone know what a 'LIM control unit' is ? That's what they replaced on my car last week in an attempt to fix this problem but unfortunately it didn't work and I've only had one night since where it charged without error. Spoke to them again today and they want to try swapping the LIM again...

Thanks Steven, useful to know. I presume you're talking about the electric motor rather than the REx ?

Yep, mine has done this since new but I can't work out what's making the noise. I had the car in last week (for something else) and asked them to look at it. They took it on two separate test drives and couldn't hear it and now that I've had the car back for a few days it's doing it again...

Even though I've had my car over 6 months I only learnt this yesterday as it was mentioned in Robert Llewellyn's video of the i8. Feel a bit daft for not figuring it out myself but seems I'm not the only one :P

Same here, my charging is set to start at 1am and a lot of my 'charging interrupted' error notifications get sent at 11pm (the screeny I posted on page 2 is exactly this).

Hi Neil, Could you tell us what charging unit you're using please? I've had dozens of similar charging errors in the 6 months that I've owned my car. They were happening about a couple of times a week but on Monday I took my car in for a software update and since then.... charging errors have...

Agreed. I wasn't sure where it was but found this post explaining it in a bit more detail : http://www.mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8695#p8695