Glad to hear you made it home ok! I agree with jadnashuanh, the Nokians are probably your best choice for lots of snow duty. The Blizzaks are good but seem a little more geared towards ice/cold wet pavement. Ok, I'm going with the Finnish tires. I was unable to find them online (for Canadian custom...

Glad to hear you made it home ok!

I agree with jadnashuanh, the Nokians are probably your best choice for lots of snow duty. The Blizzaks are good but seem a little more geared towards ice/cold wet pavement.

Welcome fellow Canadian i3s owner!! I have some answers, but not all: 1. shrug 2. if you're on FB, there's a 'BMW i3 Owners - Canada' group that sometimes has winters for sale 3. yes, but i don't use any so can't help here 4. insideevs.com / fully charged on youtube / electrek.com to name a few 5. a...

about 30 min

yes, there's an Activate climate control box on the goodbye screen:


If its not there then you need to go into the climate settings menu and turn it on so that it will display on the goodbye screen.

Which wheels?

Try these two FB groups, might get more bites:
SW Ontario BMW i3 Owners Group
BMW i3 Greater Toronto Area

I'm too far away and on the other side of a closed border

Try bimmercode, very easy to do and not expensive: https://bimmercode.app/

Highly recommend coding the REx to be able to turn it on at 75%, makes the car far more usable for roadtrips.

Have you tried asking on (or searching) the BMW i3 Worldwide group on facebook (assuming you are on FB)? It's probably the best resource online for i3's (nothing against this forum, its been great too, just not as much traffic).

Never understood why BMW didn't do that from the factory. I believe BMW plans this out deliberately on their vehicles, especially over the past decade as LEDs started to work their way into the industry. They use incandescent front and rear turn signals, and then change them to LED (along with brak...

nice, pics please?!