Recent content by codingpanic

Mine have been replaced under the warranty as well, but it just keeps happening.

My I3's seats have been tearing, pretty reliably, every 4-8 months. The first time it happened when I bought the car, It took lots of back and forth to get it replaced. Now, almost three years later, it is still happening, even after multiple seat covering replacements. I've spoken with the...

Yeah, that is the opposite of my experience... Perhaps a visit to the dealer is in order.

They are set to late right now. At this point, my only recourse is to drive with it off. That will fix the sudden braking. Traction on the other hand, I need to find out what is going on there.

Are any of you using winter tires? I'm on all season tires right now. Still doesn't explain that the car is fine when in tech mode...

Yeah, I have Driver Assistant plus but I am not using adaptive cruise or any of those features. I am driving the car. The sudden braking only happened this morning though. I've been having acceleration issues whenever there are slick roads. Slow accel, brisk accel, nothing works. Put it into...

What software version are you currently running? I'm running the latest November update...

BMW I3 is extremely dangerous in winter conditions. When Accelerating from a snow covered side street to a BUSY, clear, down to pavement main road, the car will suddenly stop for 3 seconds as if its thinking about what it is about to do. This is enough time that a car can rear-end you. The...