Recent content by drhardee

I had the unfortunate occasion to pick up a screw in my right rear tire while at the grocery store, and came out of the store to discover my tire was flat as a fritter. I remembered the tire repair kit in the frunk, and followed the directions. It worked very well, and I took the repaired tire...

I just got mine back from the dealer. I took it in for an oil change in the Rex unit, and an A/C problem. They kept it for 5 days, did the software update and changed out the motor mount bolts, and of course, un-did all of my lovely "Code my car" coding. Sigh..I'll have to get Okee to recode...

One of the new coding changes I took advantage of when introduced by Code My Car (whom I'd recommend), is that the interior warning sound effects (what some call "bongs and glongs") can be changed in the i3, from the rather insipid non-BMW sounding "bionks" that we now get, to either standard...

My EME failed, but my dealer managed to get another one over-nighted to Columbia, SC. It still took them the better part of a week to get it installed and reprogrammed. 'Twas a $6,420.36 warranty repair that I hope sticks! I posted about it recently in the Main forum.

I got my car back from BMW of Columbia yesterday, and apparently it was preparing to fail in spectacular style. The service writer said that the "EME" module was failing and needed to be replaced. Apparently, EME stands for "Electrical Machine Electronics" ~whatever that is~, and it had gone...

KLE (Komfortladeelektronik or Comfort Charging Electronics in English) is the in-car charger. There are actually two circuits of 3.7kW on-board chargers, and one of them was failing (you could still charge using the second, just slower) Early cars had many issues with them, and were replaced...

It looks like the infamous KLE problem has come to visit my car. I still don't know what the acronym KLE means, (and yes, I searched) but my service rep said that "some power module which controls everything in your car was dying"...even he didn't know what to call it! But the part was...

<<If your vehicle needs a s/w update, you'll likely either get an e-mail from BMW or maybe in addition (that's what happened with mine bought in June), a phone call. They have that info from when you registered the car and made your first phone call to them from the car to verify and setup your...

When connecting my 2014 i3 to my home 120v occasional cable, I have begun occasionally seeing the message "Charging with reduced power to avoid damage to sensitive electronic components", or words to that effect. It sometimes happens when I plug the car in, and sometimes I'll see it when I...

Like the poster above me, I too use the OUC as my primary charging cable. I have a REX, and I have never driven the car (in 4200 miles) far enough in a day to activate the REX unit! This car is used to get me to and from work (22 miles round trip), and grocery shopping /errand running on...

OK. Got it; thanks for that! Now, how do I get the "Office" app in Idrive to work in my car? I haven't found any help on getting that to activate. Is it my older model iPhone 4 that's the problem?

Yeah, I got one too. Plug it in to a USB port, and it's basically an advertisement for the car with links to other BMW sub-sites. Like you say, too small to be really practical. It might hold the (purchased) DVDINMOTION HSOC patch, though! If you ever need to uninstall it, you'd know where the...