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I use a smart charger and charge to 100% rarely. I did today, in preparation for a 100 mile round trip but the car hit 100% about 20mins before departure. Usually I'll charge to a 85 or 90% when running short trips locally , again, hitting that just before departure and not charge again until...

@Paul4A I suggested it might be more common with later cars but it's not confirmed. I noticed some of the recent failures were 2020 or 2021 cars. Mine is a June 2020 car with only low miles. Searching on the topic I don't see older cars 2013/14/15 coming up as having the failure but maybe there...

Wiseley replied to a threat elsewhere a while ago stating they had replaced the heater in 3 or 4 i3's in a single month. Seems a common failure although maybe in later cars? The original part was superseded at some point but whether that was to fix the issue or the new part resulted in it being...

I have a reader but only use it with Electrified. Tried the free version of Bimmerlink but wouldn't reveal details of the errors without paying £31. Anyway, dealer has had a look and it's the heater as expected (aux heater or kettle heater as they called it). Total would have been around £1200...

As a follow-up to my previous post, it's booked into be investigated further but not until the end of Feb. If I charge the car before using it, so far at least, that's worked to give me heat for a few local trips that day. Hopefully the local dealer know what they're doing. I have suggested...

Nope. When the problem first occurred it was noticed as soon as I got in the car after pre-heating the cabin via the app departure timer. On leaving to return home when the issue was still apparent I had just set off without preheating, and still in comfort mode. Then only just as I returned...

Had heating problems yesterday but just before returning home it started working again. Working fine today too. Only thing different is I used the cabin preheat yesterday morning. The heater didn't work when I started the car to return home with no preheat either. Today I just got in it and...

Hi, I remember seeing an email to do this, post in member rides, so here's a quick intro with photo. Second owner of a 2020 July build i3. Owned it since Feb 2021, so, heading towards three years of ownership. Due to COVID, and working with clients from home since, I haven't covered that many...

Hmmm, without being an expert in this stuff, sounds like something to do with the electrical supply or the load balancing. The Ohme app isn't without bugs/undesirable features. One such feature is that if you have push notifications enabled then you will see the slow charging warnings sent to...

From what I saw a while ago the i4 is sold out at least through to end of 2022. The lower build numbers is probably due to ramping up manufacturing of the i4 or limited supply of the parts required. New i3's I think are shipping with the old smaller centre screen so there's an issue obtaining...

Thanks for the info. It's difficult to find the correct detail rather than opinions although I might have misunderstood some info found elsewhere. Good to see a long term owner. I'm planning to keep mine a long time too so might change my charging habits to only charge to 100% when a fully...

BMW might recommend charging the iX to 80% but do we know how the battery chemistry compares and how it balances the cells vs the i3? The i3 only balances cells at a high state of charge and when plugged in I think, so charging to to only 80% I don't think will allow that process to complete...

Very much doubt 2 "bad" i3's involved. Not had my 120AH long (non-S) and seen the range prediction vary. Best I've seen so far predicted is 203 miles after playing around with Eco Pro mode and turning off the ventilation during a local trip and charging when arrived home. Today I started off on...

Other peoples disliking of them, for one reason or another, are the reasons they're a bargain used :D . People who enjoy driving and care about the engineering & lightweight construction appreciate them. I hope BMW go on to make something similar, using a lightweight construction. I think they...