Recent content by ScottinOregon

I wish I had Kucloma's post when I was stuck 100 miles from home with a battery that a public charging station wouldn't charge! The tow truck driver (which BMW graciously paid for) offered to jump me but I haughtily explained that the 12V system isn't what made the thing go, and so on. Now I...

Frictioncircle: your L2 experience is EXACTLY mine except now you're scaring me that public chargers won't charge me when I'm down to merely 20% instead of the close-to-zero experiences I've had! Nothing like having a public charging system that works wonderfully ... unless you actually NEED...

And, Art, ya, I had enough charge to still drive a few miles, so it seems like it shouldn't have caused the battery management system to give up. I've wondered if the 12V system might be handling the handshake management but there was nothing that would have drained that battery this time...

Ya,I feel like some of those level-3 cables are going to pull the whole charging port right out of the car, especially when they aren't long enough to drape along the ground. But that's not it, my failed charging machines were all level-2 with surprisingly skinny cables. They would say...

A new twist on me almost running out of juice before I get home (which drives my family members crazy). I find that when I try to charge at a public charger with a low charge it won't complete the car-charger handshake and so won't charge. Very frustrating to have public chargers I sometimes...

I'm constantly (maybe twice a year) ALMOST making it home when the battery gives out. I call a neighbor and they tow me the last mile, and that works ok, but getting the car positioned to be towed, or the times I've run out in parking lots just meters from a public charger, I've noticed being...

There was a great magazine ad a couple of years back about preconditioning on a BMW (sadly, not the i3) that showed a row of cars at the airport, all of them covered with snow except for the BMW which had been set to have the thing toasty when the owner's plane landed.

The "god button" mention reminds me -- at one point I called it and after their obligatory "I'm sorry" told me that they could tow me to a dealership where they would "diagnose my problem Monday morning." Well, I knew my problem! I asked if they could tow me two miles to the power company's...

I inadvertently did a little testing of battery range last Sunday. It was a beautiful day in western Oregon and we drove to Sauvie Island to walk along the Columbia River with the dogs. The trip was sprung on me by family members so I didn't have a full charge in the battery but felt we could...

As another data point, my 2014 i3 REx, with a sticker about what yours but 20,000 miles, was was totaled when a tree fell on it and the insurance company gave me $31k and I talked them up to $33k. I was shocked and appalled at how much it had depreciated in 13 months. I, for one, would love to...

In Oregon you can get in big trouble (arrested, even, if it turns into a big brouhaha) for leaving a dog in a car because of the hot dog cooking potential if the sun comes out. And there are plenty of people (the kind, we used to say, to watch out for if the commies take over, now I guess it'd...

We once took another couple to a nice neighborhood Indian restaurant on a very cold night on our way to see the premier of the Wild movie in Portland (partially filmed at our house -- portraying the shack Cheryl Strayed grew up in in Minnesota). Our table looked right out over the car, which...

Oooo, I like the idea of putting the insurance company on the hot seat in finding me a car as good as mine. I don't know if they'll take the bait, but it's worth a try. Otherwise, I've basically made the mistake in my utter indignation with their offer to me of confusing value with price...

This is Scott again, he with the tree on top of his car. The insurance adjuster was out to see the car and says it's a total loss. Not only that, but last Saturday morning before the tree hit it it has supposedly depreciated an astonishing and farcical (in my opinion) 40% in the 13 months...

I muscled the roof pieces around to give myself some headroom (still requires sort of a low-rider posture, though) and drove it up to the house to vacuum the inside and clean the bark and other tree parts off, and to set up a heater in it to dry out the seats and carpet. If it's not going to be...