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Yes, my experience exactly with my 2017 so far. ConnectedDrive just works, and takes about 20 seconds, pretty consistently. My car was manufactured in June of 2017, making it one of the last 2017 i3's produced, so if any 2017's have the new module from the factory, mine would. (I will take a...

No one ever calls the i3 REx a plug-in hybrid. It's an EV with a little electric generator. The car clearly tells the driver when the battery is getting depleted. All electric cars go into some kind of turtle mode when the battery is almost exhausted. The only difference is that an i3 REx...

Ah, now we're getting somewhere. If a given i3 has the above part installed, it almost certainly already has 4G connectivity, regardless of what the iDrive screen says. What is the easiest way for me to check if my 2017 i3 has the above part installed?

I was about to answer your question when I realized that you are probably not in the US since you are using Centigrade. I can't imagine the climate control works differently elsewhere, but thought I'd mention that just in case there's a difference. In the US model i3, at least, the heat and AC...

Erin, thanks for sharing your experience. I have a 2017 i3, the last year which came with the older iDrive system, like your 2015. My iDrive screen also says "3G" in the corner, but remote lock/unlock/climatize from my phone app consistently takes about 20 seconds. I've read endless...

Apparently, this doesn't apply if your car has a moonroof. I hadn't really thought about the roof material until I gently knocked on it. It's painted sheet metal in my 2017 i3. I looked at another i3 (without a moonroof) at the charger recently and finally understand what this old thread was...

Point taken on the car's mileage. I charge up 3-4 times a week, but I've only owned the car for 7 months. I have no idea how often the first owner popped that door open. In any case, it's nice to know that this isn't a terribly common thing that "everyone" runs into as their i3 ages. I hope...

The charge part door in my 2017 i3 stopped opening reliably recently. The door would sometimes pop open weakly and sometimes not open at all. I took the car into the dealership today and they diagnosed it as a failed actuator. They replaced it for free under warranty and the door is popping...

I've always driven small cars, so I'm used to good turning radii, but the i3 is in a whole different league, isn't it? I'm definitely making more U-turns than I've ever made before.

That's useful information. I hope that the i3 and other BMW models are capable of a combox-only swap to get to 4G. This seems likely, but is still not confirmed. I'm sure that BMW would have to expend some technical effort to make the older iDrive communicate with a 4G combox (perhaps a...

I had the day off today, so I decided to spend the morning on the phone trying to get a definitive answer on how to upgrade my i3 from 3G to 4G. I never got a good answer from anyone, but here's what I did find out: - I called the local dealership. Service department didn't know. They...

Congratulations! I have a 2017 REx and I'm feeling a bit jealous of your extra battery capacity. Is "Range Envy" a thing? I used BimmerCode on mine about a month after I got it. Enabled the Hold State of Charge menu (very useful on road trips) and changed various other settings along the...

Hahahaha! That's funny! A couple days after I bought my CPO i3, I called the number on the "BMW genius" card I got with the car and asked why I was having a lot of trouble controlling Spotify playback through the car's audio controls and why the album art didn't show up on the car's screen...

So...to sum up: 2014 - 2017 i3 : 3G telematics that will stop working in early 2022 when AT&T pulls the plug on their 3G network. 2018 - 2020+ i3: 4G LTE telematics built-in. No problem for the foreseeable future. So, what's the plan for the older cars? I still haven't heard anything. Will...

I have a 2017 i3 and, like you, have found no way to add apps to my car. I've checked at https://connecteddrive.bmwusa.com/ and my car is subscribed to almost everything for another year, but if I try to visit the Connected Drive Store from my car, it says that it's not available or something...

Thanks for the responses. I think I'll ignore the dealership's advice about a yearly alignment and have it done when it pulls or the tires wear unevenly, just like every other car I've ever owned.

I took my 2017 i3 into the dealership for its last free REx oil change a couple months ago and my local BMW dealership, which seems to know the i3 pretty well, strongly suggested that I get an alignment once per year. Based on what I've read here, it sounds like they were being honest with me...

The company is called "Electric Fish": https://www.electricfish.co/ I'm not saying with certainty that they're not legitimate, but the initial post above was pretty unprofessional, didn't list the company name, didn't link to the company web site, and was the only post by the user to this...

Wow. I have a 2017 REx (22k miles) and have never seen anything close to 141 miles of GOM range when battery full in comfort mode. Maybe 120 at most, and 110-115 more usually. Of course, my situation is probably different from yours. I have something of a worst-case heat scenario for an EV...

I installed Electrified on my OnePlus 7T and it refused to communicate with my Veepeak OBDCheck BLE. Same phone/Veepeak combination works with Bimmercode/Bimmerlink, so pretty sure that this is an issue with the app.