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I am very surprised the last couple of weeks as I have been able to connect to the car 3 out of 4 times to engage preconditioning. WOW! As I was rarely able to engage preconditioning last winter, I never was around the car while it was conditioning. As the car is conditioning, there is a loud...

Do many of you regularly use the connected app? If so what is your success percentage to connect? With all the TCU problems of the car, we basically stopped even trying to use the app, but after the last software update (June) I have been trying more often. I get about a %50 successful...

Sorry folks, this was a big typo mistake by me. In these cases I have had the car in Cruise Control NOT Active Cruise Control. After demo'ing the system with the BMW Genius my wife and I decided Active Cruise Control was not a good idea for a car we did not trust, for now. Are others having...

Are others having trouble with the automatic cruise control dropping out? When on the freeway I try to keep the car driving no faster than 60 MPH to save battery. I tend to set the automatic cruise control to maintain a fixed speed. Driving at 60 MPH on the freeway, cars whiz by on either side...

We need the ability to see the actual charging rate of the car. Many public charging stations do not have displays that show the actual rate, or often the screens have become greyed out from the sun. Even on slow J1772 one should be able to get some calculations on how long the car needs to...

It seems we will not get public DC charging for the i3 in the state of Washington, but since I paid for the option, I am curious, what are your charging times for DC? How fast will it charge? thanks

I live in Washington state and recently had to suffer thru lack of public charging for our i3. There are no DC fast charging stations for i3 in the state. In the recent BMW, VW Charge Now announcement the group is committed to build just under one hundred CCS chargers from Portland down to Sand...

A week ago on Friday I called BMW 800 service as I could not get the remote app to connect with the i3. I was told the IT was not in the office and I needed to call back Monday, which I did. So much for that 24 x 7 call center pitch. I explained to the call center this is much more than an...

Yet another cryptic message from BMW in my email: ""Dear BMW ConnectedDrive Customer, Please check the vehicle charge status when your vehicle V28xxx has been left parked for longer periods. Best regards, BMW ConnectedDrive "" Does anyone have an idea what these folks are wanting to...

Does anyone have luck with the app communicating with the i3?. At best my app connects with the car %30 of the time. Even when I think it works, I get a "Preconditioning Execution status unknown. " message. I have taken the car in to the dealer three times to have the system reset. Having these...

A few weeks ago I went out to remove the charge plug from the i3, and it would not release. After a lock and unlock cycle from the key fob, the charge plug released. Now about %50 of the time the plug will not release. Using the key fob to lock and unlock the car does not seem to help. If I lock...

I got a phone call from the national customer care center. The major issues of our 3 week old car, with specific charge issues had been forwarded to them. I also gave them a written statement of the problems, highlighting the charging issues, that explained I was very clear when I bought the...

Has anyone actually measured maximum 120v charging rate? Has anyone verified a rate of 1.9 kW? Due to the charging issue of the KLE I may be forced to charge on 110v as my other EV and the BMW need to share charge time, and they can't both get done on 220v in my charge window time. I need every...

Because the KLE failure and other issues our maximum range now displays we can only drive 40 miles. I need to reset and start the learning over. I have ask BMW and the dealer, neither can tell me how to reset it. Seems like a simple request really. I'd really like to know what sort of logic BMW...