Any 530e owners out there?

Is that with the heater on or off? The heater eats battery

The new one does have that 70kms plus range, and it's 20k cheaper than full electric i5. Which would buy a lot of petrol the odd time you'd need it

Mine is a 12kwh unit and I have been getting around 20km the last few days, and the lowest I got was 16km last week which is unusually low this year. Use heating set to 19 deg 50% of time and increasing to 20/21 deg further reduces range. Summers I get around 35-40km, but I wish at least 50km would have made me plug 2-3 times a week.

A hypothetical situation as they say.

A 5 year old (182 reg) PHEV with approx. 150k kms, from a reputable used car dealer costing approx. €25k.

After 7 months & 7k kms develops a fault with the hybrid battery that could render the EV element of the car non functioning. (Potential repairs anywhere in the region of €2k-€8k)

Any expectations of comeback from the dealer?

Hybrid/electrical items are usually excluded from dealer warranties

Car is a 530e. I believe manufacturer warranty on the battery went to 6 years / 100k Kms whichever came first. Car was a UK import and a non brand dealer so hasn't been near BMW Ireland for any goodwill to be considered.

I didn't mention the warranty initially in part because of the quote above, but also to discuss the consumer rights aspect of the purchase. Failure of the hybrid battery does not fall under normal wear and tear and I don't believe 7 months / 7k Kms is a reasonable time for the car to be fully functioning as expected.

I'm awaiting a full diagnosis of the issue and potential solutions but I suppose I was looking for opinions on how much the EV drive train of a PHEV is considered in terms of the overall function of the car. Car can obviously still be driven but to have no EV changes the very reason for buying the car in the first place.

Yes a 6 month but as you say would not cover electrical ) hybrid battery either way.

Funnily, the hypothetical symptoms have gone away today.

I've paid for bimmerlink and ran it for errors, with a few indicating some charge loss in a single cell module so it may not be as catastrophic as initially feared.

Unlikely, you’re on your own I’d say.

Mine is 182 with 90,000 km and the battery takes 8 kwh charge from 0% so that doesn't look great. I checked my charging history for the same date as above and the range said 23 km.

I doubt you'd get far with the legal route. Bad experience with warranty recently with Frank Keane. They tried to wiggle out of warranty as it expired between the time the car was booked in and them seeing it two weeks later.

If you could stretch to a 2019 car with the 12kWh battery like this one, you should save yourself quite a bit on fuel especially over the winter months. Warranty should be a consideration also as these are expensive cars to fix if they go wrong.

https://www.donedeal.ie/view/35360174

"192 "REG / LONGER RANGE 12KWH BATTERY /APPLE CAR

The battery on the 2018 version is about 30% smaller (9.2kWh). Presumably it’s equivalent range would be 24-25km in the same conditions at best.

I was seriously thinking about one of these from the north. After reading the issues some of you have had I think I will just go full EV.

12kw at a public charger is nearly 6 euro for 30ish kms. It is more expensive than petrol to charge these in winter.

Are you sure the target value in battery charge control (charge limitation) is not set to a low percentage like 60% or something?