Didn't explicitly ask that question. I believe you need to have the car in the ready mode to engage neutral. I'm assuming when the EME is taken out of service, ready is NOT available and no amount of trickery will let you engage neutral. I'll let you know the next time it happens. :roll:Boatguy said:
As I said, the procedure IS in the app version of the user's manual AND it is also IN the car's electronic version of the owner's manual easily found with the search function (I just did it, it took me less than 10-seconds to find). Now, should the dealer and the iConcierge know this and be able to relate it to a caller, certainly, but as many have found, they are not always the greatest sources of quality information!Boatguy said:
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Sparky said:
That change has not hit the USA market yet. I thought that it had on mine for awhile, but it ended up being that the lock mechanism itself was broken and had to be replaced (IOW, it never locked!). At one point, mine would not reliably unlock regardless of what you did, and that's when it was actually replaced. The emergency unlock cable at one point got jammed as well, making it dicey. Locking and unlocking the car about 5x eventually got it to release the cable. Would have been a real hassle as the car won't run with it in, and to tow it, We would have had to remove the EVSE from the wall and cart it along, too! Been working fine since the replacement.Eikon said:
FWIW, those documents are copyrighted, internal training documents of BMW...not intended for public release. Not saying that they aren't interesting, or potentially useful if you want to learn more about your car, but they were not intended for public release, and BMW has every right to keep them internal and thus have them removed should they desire. WHy make proprietary information available to all competitors, too?Sparky said:
In 2002, I bought a limited production, radical new design 2000 Honda Insight, Honda's first gasoline-electric hybrid and Honda's only all-aluminum car other than the NSX, which makes it similar in these respects to the i3. It had a few early teething problems with battery and motor controllers that led to early battery pack failures (although it seems to have had far fewer problems than the i3 has had). My Insight's battery pack and controllers were replaced twice under warranty. Repairs were completed in no more than 24 hours after waiting no more than a week for parts to be shipped from the mainland U.S. to Honolulu. Parts never had to be shipped from Japan even though less than 10,000 Insights had been sold when my warranty repairs were performed. I still own our Insight but it's now in Sweden where Insights were never sold. Yet I can get replacement parts through my local Honda dealer within a couple of days because these parts are stocked in Honda's European parts distribution center.Sparky said:
