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I've had a few of the common "Drivetrain - you may carry on driving" messages over the 18 months I've had the car - usually after around 100 miles RExing. They've always disappeared without any problems. This weekend I had my first "Drivetrain - Do not switch off engine - you cannot restart …...

I got a tyre pressure warning today and checked them. Oddly - they were all down by exactly 0.5bar 1.8/1.8 2.3/2.3 Since it's the coldest day of the winter in UK today at around 3degC - I'm wondering if this is just a temperature effect rather than leakage. Anybody else seen this at...

I've started preconditioning, now that the mornings are getting chillier. I don't like charging every night, when the car hasn't been used much, so I sometimes let it precondition from the battery - but when I get in the interior temperature is like a Turkish bath. It seems that the...

A worrying event occurred as I was pulling out of a parking place at slow speed. Car stopped with a thump & I then noticed drive selector was showing "P". Has anyone else seen this? I would hate it to happen at higher speed.

Something worrying happened to my REx as I was driving along the M4 into low sun today. I usually use the interactive cruise control on motorways - and it has occasionally dropped out with a loud warning tone. Usually. I just reactivate it with the steering wheel buttons and continue without...

I mainly set satnav destinations on Googlemaps & send them as messages to the car - which works fine. I have also set destinations using the Idrive selector wheel a few time without problems. Today, however, I had a problem. Every time I pressed for "Select new destination" - it reverted to...

Since I've had the car - I've only managed to see the tyre pressures displayed on one occasion. Normally, if I select "Vehicle Status" on iDrive - it just reads "measuring tyre pressures" and gets no further. Am I doing something stupid?

After having the major 3 week repair job, my REx has run fine for around 700 miles - apart from a couple of "Drivetrain. Possible to continue journey. Have checked by service" messages. After the first one appeared briefly, and then disappeared, the dealer agreed I should just carry on as...

Is there a manual for the satnav available anywhere? I think I might be missing some features. I've driven some cars with brilliant systems recently, including 3D city views, junction countdown diagram options etc - but my i3 seems pretty well unchanged since the last BMW I owned circa 1999...

Anyone else irritated by the reflection of the recycled scuttle panel in bright sunlight? The reflective fibres make the screen look dirty when the sun shines. I'm wondering if it's practical to get it sprayed or wrapped matt black.

I'm not really knocking the i3 - but I can't help feeling this old Microsoft joke from way back was eerily prescient:- For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly...

Since my car died after a week and around 200 miles - I'm a little nervous. I would be interested to know, and I guess others would, what's the maximum total mileage people have covered without problems?

When I got the latest progress report on my still defunct REx - they mentioned the car log had shown 18 faults, 16 of which were cleared after fixing the 12v battery connection and upgrading the software. I don't know how many faults there were, other than those caused by a poor 12v battery...

After using the i3 every day for its first week and clocking up one trip of around 120 miles, today was its first critical mission - taking my wife to the airport. Sadly, it let me down. We got only a couple of hundred yards when the information flagged up a fault message :- " Battery Not...

After three days and around 200 miles of ownership - general impressions are all good. Performance, handling & ride are all up to expectations and general comfort & driving ergonomics fine. I have a feeling though that the electronics & may not be 100% robust, the following glitches have...

My Andesite Silver Rex arrived last night. I'd never seen the colour before - but it looks nice. More bronze than silver really. Everything seems to work although the Germanic inscrutability of the handbook is a bit heavy going. I managed to immobilise myself for 15 mins doing the...

Does anyone know if the i3 will be equally controllable by Apple or Android phones? Are there any performance limitations with Android?

Borrowed a REx demo for around five hours today. Did about 90 minutes of motorway driving, with & without REx motor - plus a 30 mile cross country trip selected for poor road surfaces and nasty bends. Both my wife & I were very impressed. My wife isn't a huge car fan and I thought she might...

Since the tiny REx fuel tank is only to meet US regulatory requirements - can we have an optional 5gallon/25l tank for other markets? Maybe some enterprising third party company could offer a conversion. Otherwise we're all going to be driving around with 5 gallon cans in the boot like WW2...

There's a lot of discussion on Leaf forums about quite rapid battery degradation and the point at which it becomes a warranty issue. Apparently Nissan will only consider requests for replacement if the charge capacity drops to 66% in 5yrs. Does anyone know yet what BMW's expected degradation...