BMW i3

Our i3 has the drving assistance thing. Ive tried it on the M50 and works OK for the ACC part. The lane keep you have to be on a motorway and drving less than 30 km/h for it to work. Found that strange. Also has Park assist. Not really needed in such a nimble car

Been meaning to get bimmercode and try one of the OBDs i have but never really got around to it. Dont think the Mrs will let me mess around her car either. Coincidentally we went looking at cars with her today, mulling over replacing the Family wagon. I really wanted the Polester 2 but that failed the family test with the transmission tunnel. Looked at the new EX30 and the interior in that was too small!

The ID family is OK, but if you cannot get basic functionality like scheduled charging right, then you deserve the negative press you get around it

In think the i3 may have ruined her for other cars..

All id's should be on 3.2 now, scheduled charging works so I wouldn't discount them - It was also an issue for Ioniq 5's and ev6's..amazing how many manufactures failed to do what nissan did with the original leaf...shame about the ex30 being small, I have to say I was disappointed when I saw one on the road, lovely car though..

I know they are now but it took more than a year to resolve . Dont you still need to add the location to the schedule or something of the sort?

I rented an Id3 for about 10 days in the UK and its was great. The Airbnb i staed at had EV charging so just plugged it in without care so didnt try out the scheduled charging

I time slot charge my i3 from my Andersen A2 charger, never any issues.

overtime, have regularly being using more, the i3 scheduled departure via the app, and always use it for early morning departure times for longer journeys. So not only is cabin warm, the car is fully charged at departure time, assuming of course, i am leaving, before the night rate ends at 8/9am.

Unkel, i am wondering if your issue, is because you may not have, an active “BMW connected Drive” package, so car does not receive your app time slot charging commands ? Its an annual subscription of €89.

Sorry I must have picked you up wrong, I thought you meant that vw haven’t got the timed charging sorted on the id’s and it may have put you off. It does work and works well, selecting location such as home takes only a second and it’s always there on the drop down menu once saved - same in the born-

Only took them nearly 4 years but 3.2 is how it should be - can’t fault it now.

I get the odd glitch from the i3 , timed charge but kicks on for ten minutes and then off-

@unkel it won’t time charge on the granny cable - mine has only ever charged immediately on the granny cable since day one.

Do not have any subscription and never had an issue sending commands to the car

@fafy Didn’t know there was a subscription- the app isn’t too bad to be fair. Screen shots below in case you’re paying for stuff that’s free- I don’t use maps. App response works but not as quick as the Tesla one.

Defo no real time traffic, I have to rely on Google maps for that.

But same in Tesla (or pay €10 a month), the id3 uses apple play or some app connect and has full Google maps and Spotify menus on the big screen - real time traffic is a must for me, painful using the phone.

What kind of real world range are people getting from the 94Ah cars? Lets say worst case in the winter.

That more or less aligns to what was on my GOM on the larger i3 120Ah battery, it was about 210 km, during our recent cold snap, but would be 300 ish km in summer.

Thanks for that info folks

Might be of interest to i3 owners; https://youtu.be/OrjX-UGl5go?si=iuQI385c31N1aOLL

I’m guessing less than half it’s retail value. They usually go through all the numbers once it’s finished and ready for sale. Crazy to write off a car with such little damage. Little wonder car insurance is so expensive.

I got 4 new tyres around September, i wanted to go for the Michelin E Primacy, a little more expensive, but sopposedly better comfort, and less noise. but could not get them, tried a few places in May/June, one place priced it, but when he went to order, they were not available. He told me they make them in batches, and it could be months before they make the next batch, so went for Continentals.

One only has a few choices with the i3, so make sure what you want is actually available before you order.

btw, Michelin do offers periodically, like the one below, and if i had been able to get them, i would have gotten €115 off :

https://car-offers.michelin.co.uk/roi/spring2023

2016 i3 with tiny mileage, what a waste of a car for whoever owned it; https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-i3-2016/36518022

If I was in the market for an EV right now I'd be going to look at that ASAP.

i3 extras like sunroof, harmon kardon upgrade, leather seats, adaptive cruise control, are not that common, not rare either, but the bulk of examples, don’t have them. It is a little expensive, and would be negotiable