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Looking for prevention here. From another thread: Would it be useful to flush the AC at a certain age/milage in order to prevent an expensive break down? Any costs known?

You can use any clean container/PET bottle at height, connect the hose to it and fill it with the oil. This way you can keep the oil container to store the old oil.

Originally the set up included a 200ml syringe with a ~5 lb weight on it. But the seal in the syringe was not great and some oil bypassed it. It also did not go in much faster than under gravity (~4 ft). I did get in all the oil in a very clean way. Best set up that I can imagine now is...

I found there were a couple of issues to be tackled: - prevent oil spillage as much as possible : small hole 0.8 - 1.0 mm - overcome the limited space because of heat shield : grub screw flush with head of plug - keep magnet to collect any metal shavings: requires a strong magnet with a hole -...

Just be aware that, for some unknown reason, if you program for automatic mirror folding, switching off the interior alarm in the car with the key might not work any more. - Press lock for 2nd time within 10 sec. Red light under rear mirror will illuminate for a longer time to confirm the...

My 2015 BMW i3 has been reprogrammed back to EU standard. This allows you to “hold state of charge”, which basically means the rex will maintain any battery percentage below 75%. Rex will still kick in automatically when battery is below 6%. You can also reprogram the volume of the tank which...

Happy to help. But why did you order a new plug?

The valvomax is a smart litte device, but in this case not suitable to my opinion. - It looks like the valvomax is made from stainless steel, not recommendable to use on aluminium surfaces like the BMW i3 gear box. - it is missing the magnet for collecting any metal parts - it seems too bulky...

Hi, I am new to the forum, so here is my introduction. Just moved to the US from the EU and bought this very sensible car. Mainly used for commute and occasional longer trips. The car drives as a dream and having driven this I don’t want to go back to a car with a combustion engine as main...

Hi Nigel, Did you find the solution? I am also looking into changing the transmission oil on my 2015 rex (without filler plug). Thanks, Pipino