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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...

I'm near in Portland Oregon and the car will be fixed in Portland. I'll certainly post about my experience and I won't look for a loaner because we have five cars for three family members in our household now ... but I am sorely not looking forward to driving my 2002 Volvo station wagon which...

Additional pedantry alert: unless you got the slides in the projector backward, I think they put your wheels back on the wrong sides -- I have the same wheels (and shamu color scheme) and my spokes are cutting aggressively forward like tomahawk chops as I drive (and this is how they came from...

While walking in the park near my home a branch of a tree fell on my 1 y/o car: image upload no ads Major bummer. Has anyone had experience with BMW dealerships being able to properly fix a car that's been really wrecked. Several people have told me it's totaled, but I drove the thing home...

The Portland Oregon airport just installed many charging spots in their economy lot -- the one that you have to ride a bus to and from the terminal that's "only" $10/day. This seems insane to me -- am I supposed to hog a spot for four days while I go to San Diego for a long weekend?!

I just replaced the horn on my i3 with an old-VW beep beep horn (I was after an even more friendly sound). After sticking my head in and under with my son honking the horn in an effort to locate it, I removed the frunk bucket (six torx) and there it was in plain sight and fairly easy access...