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It's clearly audible on the beginning and later in the video. It starts when coasting and then pressing accelrator lightly. You need good speakers or headphones to hear it as the frequency for the sound is little special, but the sound is more whirring than pure whining.

All EV's are expensive to repair if out of warranty, it does not matter if it's tesla or bmw. We have bought model s and i3. Tesla model s has only had few repairs all door handles and that's it. i3 has had now several repairs ex. motor changed, door handle and door switch changed. For the...

Just received the car from service and the sound is gone. Here's video before service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH-GDeoh3F8

Don't by any i3 without proper warranty and avoid cars driven over 50tkm. Also prefer 2017-> cars that have updated batteries, should have better bearings in the motor that maybe survies over 80tkm :roll: Overall nice cars when they are working :mrgreen:

Car is still at service, we decied to take the offer for used motor and they are installing it currently. Let's see if that cures the noice and how long the motor will last, motor was from a i3 that had been driven for 10,500km.

It was bought from used car dealer. Today BMW Finland told that they don't give any goodwill and the car dealer don't want to pay for the new motor. They are trying to push for a used motor LOL :)

We had motor failure with our i3 MY2015 and around 71,000km on the clock. Last week the car started to make some metallic noise when driving around 40-50km/h, at first it was not so loud but quickly came louder. It was easier to get noise if the torque was little higher when accelerating and...