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Hi guys, I thought it would be nice to have a thread about milestones that people would like to share, so let me be the first. Today, we've crossed the 30000 miles mark. Yeah ! Regards, Steven

Hi guys, our clock has drifted two minutes over a period of time. Not a biggie, but it would be nice if the date/time was set using any kind of incomming data (radio, Connected Drive, nav) Steven

Hi guys, maybe interesting: while browsing through BMW's dutch forum, I discovered that a couple of Dutch tinkerers are developing a different approach to generating electricity from gas. See: http://www.star-engines.com/en It's main feature seems to be a 'free' rotating 3d Wankel-like system...

Hi guys, if found this video through the German forum of Munro et al. reverse engineering (parts of) the i3: http://www.forbes.com/video/3958851958001/ Regards, Steven

Hi guys, since the very first cars were delivered as christmas gifts in '13: 2015 celebrates year 3 of i ! I would like to wish every owner, prospective owner, ethusiast and sceptic an electrifying 2015 ! Regards, Steven

Hi guys, just a short new thread to celebrate our twentythousandth mile :) It's been real. Not without troubles, but never so grave as to leave us stranded. Room for imporvement: lots. Second thoughts: none ;) Regards and whirr on ! Steven

Hi guys, on this side of the pond, there was much upheaval lately about the testresults of a large 'Praxistest' of E-cars in the German 'Auto Motor Sport' magazine, one of the leading magazines in Germany, possibly in Europe. The claimed practical ranges of the different cars were far below...

Hi guys, what's your (or could I, as fellow i3 enthusiast, say: our) take on the MB B ED ? I'll kick off the disussion, please, no bashing, by stating that the MB looks like the bigger car. The difference seems to be sort of subjective though. A kind of trick of the mind because of i3s large...

Hi guys, has any of you suffered the same kind of detachment of the little rubber flaps of trim that accommodate for the adjustment of the steering column ? The type of adhesive tape they used seem like an error of judgement. Some foamy kind of adhesive tape would have been a better idea one...

Hi guys, our car has developed a rather inconvinient glitch, for we are unable to unlatch the fuel filler flap 9 out of 10 tries. We see the 'ready to refuel' counter reach 90-95% after which the process stalls and the white warning triangle remains on display. It can be unlocked manually from...

Replacement of the fuel tanks ? Steven

Dear i3 co-owners, please take care with the (radio-) antenna, for mine broke off today in the car wash I frequent. Why now is not clear, for I have been through there 4-5 times already. I wish I had known it could be removed, but I guess it is not supposed to be detachable, for it is not...

Hi guys, I have to keep it short for now, but we're just back from our roundtrip from Holland through Germany, a little bit of France and Switzerland. 1780 km (1100 mi). Most of it completely electric: as planned the whole route to Zürich & surroundings completely electric: 1050 km (652 mi)...

Hi Guys, it can't be that I'm the only REx-er around here. Fellow buzzers: who has got one and how are you getting on ? Regards, Steven

Hi Guys, found this on the net. Anybody seen it before ? Some fun reading about safety measures when you're dealing with a broken i3. Just scroll down towards the end. https://oss.bmw.de/rettungsleitfaden/en_Rescue_Manual_BMW_Mini.pdf Steven

Hi all, we had quite a storm here in NL yesterday, the remnants of the depression that wreaked havoc in the UK (again) last friday. Driving near the coast, the i3 had to cope with windforce 9-10 with gales on top, while driving 80-100 kmh, so the circumstances were challenging, to say the...

Hi Guys, just for kicks, I am planning a short pan-European trip, perhaps through Germany to Zürich (CH). I did some planning using this German site: e-tankstellen-finder. Does anybody here know this site ? I guess it should be ok for it is linked from the official site of the Bundesverband der...

Hi fellow Dutchmen :mrgreen: since the first i3's are being delivered: what are, in general, the 'best' solutions to charge the car away from home for us flatlanders? I have not yet really looked into it myself, but I can imagine getting BMW's own ChargeNow card. It depends, of course, on...

Well, that will be a nice bit of friendly competition: who is going to be the first owner ? :) Steven PS: great idea, the owners forums! Charging questions will end up in the tech department one would guess ?

Hi i3 aficionados, I was happy to be present at the Dutch introduction of the i3 this weekend since I'm on the production list for 2013 and am ready to order our i3/REx (if at all possible because of limited availability of REx initialy). We had the opportunity to get the feel of the car during...