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Today is a sad day. My wife drove my 2014 i3/REX into a ditch a few weeks ago and the repair estimate is high enough that the insurance company is totaling the car. We haven't decided whether or not we will replace it (it's a 3rd car and we reallly don't need 3 cars), but will wait a bit before...

This is interesting. It looks like he is connecting the inverter to the 12v battery's positive post? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-jOmAyraY

The green LED light on the A/C button has started working only randomly (2014 i3/Rex). I understand this is a common problem on i3's but haven't found anyone who has done a repair of a single light, rather than having the whole panel replaced. Would be interested to hear from someone who has...

This isn't a "mod", but is something that I recently purchased and find extremely helpful for my i3: https://safejacks.com/products/the-rennstand-by-safe-jack-single-unit Works very well! It is innovative, extremely well built using high quality materials, and works on both my i3 and my wife's...

Hadn't run the REX for quite a while so decided to fire it up and run out some gas the other day. Shortly after the REX started the Check Engine light came on. Scanned it with my "Torque" app and it shows P0440 "Evaporative Emission Control System". I then scanned using the "BimmerLink" app...

Swapped the little "clown car" horn out for a set of PIAA horns today. What a difference! And it was a simple swap. Here's how I did it: STEP 1: Hit a deer out on the highway. STEP 2: When the body shop removes the hood and the bumper cover for repair, replace the horn, which is now...

Managed to miss the first 2 deer but caught the rear end of the 3rd one on the front right corner of the car. Took it to a body shop and came away with an estimate of $7,500. A rather astounding $1,900 just for the LED headlight! Turned it in to my insurance company and am waiting to see...

Interesting. Appears to apply to certain model year California cars only. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/theres-a-class-action-lawsuit-for-a-dangerous-bmw-i3-range-extender-problem/

I've searched my manual but can't find a description of the little red LED in the middle of the dash. Sits on the same plane as the HVAC fan controls. To the right of the fan controls and to the left of the passenger vent control.

Swapped out the incandescent bulbs on my 2014 i3/REX for LED's. Never understood why BMW didn't do that from the factory.

I understand that filling up the last 20% of a battery is slower than the first 80%. My question is this: Would a 40a circuit and EVSE perform that first 80% charge twice as fast as my current 20a circuit and TurboCord EVSE? Turn 4 hours into 2 hours? Is it simple math or are there mitigating...

Pretty Cool! https://insideevs.com/news/449410/bmw-produced-200000-i3/amp/

Painted the white section beneath the rear bumper of my white/black i3 black. The white always looked out of place to me with the rest of the rear of the car being black. The two tone rear isn't so bad on some of the other color combinations but really sticks out on a white/black car. Love...

On a hot day like today (98 degrees), if I come home and plug the car in to chart (car is sitting outside), shortly I hear fans kick on, I assume, to cool the battery pack. There is a fairly quiet fan noise coming from up front and a fairly noisy fan noise coming from the rear. Sounds like an...

I'm not seeing an easy way to remove the backup light/reflector assembly on my 2013 i3/REX. Surely the entire rear bumper assembly doesn't have to be removed, does it? Or maybe the assembly is spring loaded and can simply be pried out? I haven't wanted to try that for risk of scratching the...

My i3 is white with the black hood, roof, and hatch, with a white section on the back just below the black hatch. Standard i3 2 tone color arrangement. The white beneath the black hatch just looks odd to me and I am wondering it if would look better if I had that section painted black. But...

I have a 2014 i3/REX with 51k miles. I'm the third owner, with the first being a lease and the second being a friend of mine who owned it until I purchased it in June of 2019. The battery pack is 22.6 kwh and the "secret menu" is showing 16.1 kwh, or 71% of the original capacity. That means...

Can someone enlighten me as to how charging cycles are counted? Is charging from 0% (yes, I know we never actually get to 0%) to 100% the same as charging from 50% to 100% twice (i.e, both equal to one charging cycle)? Or is 0-100 one charging cycle and 50-100 twice equal to 2 charging cycles...

Interesting: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/03/18/chevy-bolt-2-subcompact-car-in-california-bmw-i3-3-entry-luxury-car/

Curious as to what driving mode people are using with their i3's. Mine is Eco Pro. In fact I used Bimmercode to set that as the default so that I don't have to change it everytime I drive the car. Comfort Mode is a heck of a lot more fun, and I do use it from time to time when I'm not...