Recent content by Passivate1949

hello The tyres are Continental Winter Contact TS 850P 155/70 R19 84T apparently approved by BMW. The reply from Continental technical department was that BMW should be consulted to see if they recommend mixing brands on the car. It seems a little disingenuous to suggest through retailers that...

Since owning the car I have swapped over from summer tyres each winter. This year the rear Bridgestone winter tyres were in need of replacement. I saw on a UK tyre supplier site the option of Continental tyres at a significant reduction over the Bridestones and opted for them. Since then on...

We have both options here too - it depends on whether its a fast charger usually thought to be 7kW or a rapid charger 50kW. The latter tend to be tethered - I have not seen one without its own fixed cable. The slow or 3kW units where you simply plug in either your charger or Type 2 cable are...

Top marks to ChargePoint Genie who contacted me today and provided a charging credit for the inconvenience. I guess if the cable had been stolen we would be having a different conversation but the gesture was appreciated.

After four days the cable has now been released. I met up with the APT engineer who freed the cable and diagnosed a broken pin in the retaining solenoid. The unit is a twin 7kW APT eVolt model, not that common in this neck of the woods. While not commonplace the problem is not apparently that...

Hello and thanks for the reply. The cable is stuck in the SSE charger rather than the car. I had hoped to post an image but I couldn't make that work - perhaps I don't have the necessary permissions. I hope to hear tomorrow that SSE have managed to unlock my cable from their machine! Best...

I am not sure if this has happened to others here but on Saturday I charged up at an SSE charger locally. It is one I have used regularly in the past but on this occasion when I finished and presented my card the charger switched off but it would not release my cable from the machine! I...

@nickhorley - sorry I have been away for a while and have just seen your post. While it is probably a bit off topic and I am sure there are plenty of opinions out there, my experience is that in Eco pro the ac does knock a few miles off the range. The new battery pack should sort all this out in...

I returned on Friday from a trip to Glasgow in my 2015 i3 ReX. I covered almost 900 miles in a couple of days and became quite familiar with Ecotricity's chargers. Notwithstanding the history of who paid for what, I also feel that they haven't yet got the price right. It is noticeable that the...

I have booked the car in for the creaky rear suspension and the cabin heater on 9th May. This will be the third attempt at the heating so I will be interested to see if things have improved this time!

Hello I agree when first asked because I wasn't expecting any problems I could not recall the precise status. However, on the third occasion I made a mental note to try a number of different modes. Auto heating, manual, comfort and eco pro drive modes. All had zero effect. The indicators on the...

This is my first post to the forum but i was intrigued by this topic as I have now experienced the heating failing to work on three occasions. When it first happened, I booked the car in and of course as no fault code was produced, they concluded it must be operator error. Having racked my...