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Get it done at the dealership . Their machine calculates the weight on each wheel and adjust the alignment accordingly . I'm not sure if other places with alignment machines can do that . This i was told by my dealership and I trust they told the truth . It may be more money but it's worth it ...

Yes I would think you would have wheel spin with snow tires on dry roads . And if you use roads that use a lot of sand in the winter . I stay off roads that use sand . It's just the town roads that use it . I hate it and think it's damaging . The county and state roads here don't use sand and I...

BMW recommends when driving on heavy snow covered surfaces and you need added traction to turn off the traction control . If the traction control light is coming lighting up on dry surfacing I would would think something is wrong and take my car to the shop . Do you get your wheels regularly...

Of course . That's very basic physics . But I don't believe wheel spin occurs with an i3 with or without traction control .

I can imagine wheel spin it you like to corner too fast an wear out your tires . Which brings up a new subject . With regenerative braking and the high torque of electric motors , I find it very it very convenient to ease up on the acceleration around corners without using brakes then...

BMW claims the response time is 50 % faster with the new traction control system . I'm not sure they would have gone through the expense in redeveloping the do system if it didn't significantly improve acceleration . I'm not convinced that wheel spin has much to do with acceleration . The only...

As to the above post the state's the stability control can not be turned off . I'm not convinced . When I switch to traction from normal there is a symbol on the control panel that indicates the stability control is of . It shows the symbol as the rear of the car and says OFF .

But as I understand it the old traction control which is a separate unit and not part of the drivetrain like on the new traction control reduces the acceleration even before it detects wheel spin as it takes time to process the information in the separate units which then has to relay the...

So I assume it we turn off the traction control we will see a significant increase in acceleration . I've done this on dry pavement and did not notice any wheel spin . I'm not suggesting to do this as I don't fully understand the safety issues involved . But when researching this I've read that...

I think that traction control slow the acceleration down and BMW may have found a way to eliminate this or modify it

I have read that that bmw has increased the acceleration on the i3 s by changing the way the traction control works . The old traction control doesn't allow the full benefit of the electric motors torque to give the full benefit to acceleration . The new traction control works differently...

This seems pretty significant to me . All I3s in the US are being recalled and its hard to imagine how this can be fixed without major structural changes .

When I bought my i3 Rex I thought that if BMW came out with a more efficient battery I could remove the Rex Engine to use as a backup generator using the old battery in a solar system. As it turns out I've only used the Rex twice since I purchased the car in 2014 . I'd just as soon remove it...