Does unkel now want a plug in hybrid?

"She grew up from birth with electric cars and she is afraid of being in a combustion car."

I've heard you come up with some mad sh1t over the years Unkel but this ? you are a great source of entertainment sometimes hahah, boards will not be boring with you that's for sure !

Sure, it's ok. Bless the beloved pet.

Ground Mount ??

I don't really want to hear about it in every other thread though.

Maybe get a weekend car with a nice engine if that's your thing..

A relation of mine has an i8, and has seemed to settle on it having previously jumped from a 5, to 6 to 4 Series in a very short space of time. He bought it in his 20's and apparently was pulled over a few times until the local Gards figured he has a normal 9-5 job. 😁

Very striking exterior, but inside it's quite a lot of the BMW F Series parts bin, so underwhelming in my view, but it's very quick off the line as it's light.

I'd be seriously put off by my own F30 330e experience though, and a good friend of mine has a similar issue with his 330e right now too.

It's not that any of the parts are actually particularly expensive on their own, or even that that they're difficult to fit - it's that parts, BMW software locks, and unavailability of reprogramming equipment make third party repairs exceptionally difficult. (For me, BMW wanted €4k for a €700 part which takes an hour to physically swap out)

There is some battery specific hardware which is hard to get, and I don't think there's way around it as such, for certain issues.

My 330e months to solve outside of BMW (who warned the €4k bill could actually jump to €8k), and was barely drivable in the meantime, as the guy who fixed it tried to work on a solution. He managed it in the end, but it's now thrown the error again recently so I need to arrange for it to be sent back (I'm out of Ireland now).

Not to totally scaremonger - solutions are available, and even moreso if you can afford to wait a bit of time - or have the car shipped to the UK or Eastern Europe (which I had seriously considered and priced up). Just go in with your eyes open, get it scanned, do a test drive on a cold, low charge battery, first thing in the morning.

Brake hard enough from motorway speeds that it gives full regen (not hydraulic) braking over as long a time period as possible, is a very reliable way to stress a faulty battery in my experience.

It was Vitronix who fixed yours wasn’t it? I saw a video he posted on TikTok recently with his workshop full of 330e’s.

Correct yep - he told me as much again last week (as I texted him about my friend's car). I'm not sure if the number of cars there is good thing (in that they're fixable), or a bad thing in that they're so common.

If it's just a battery, that's one thing, and fixable at a cost, but look at Nadia's repair bill on the i8. My uncle also has 330e - issue with a charging controller was fixed under warranty by BMW, but would have been a major cost otherwise.

Maybe I should be scaremongering, but it's a tough call to know how common such problems really are, and anything that could be remotely understood as being anti-EV gets lambasted too.

Do you genuinely think it's worth the €40k? I know they were expensive new, but its 10 years old and have nearly 200,000km on the clock.

Like if you're gonna spend that kind of money on a year year old jammer, you could get CLA45 AMG, Panamera Hybrid, M3, Mustang
Or even….
This Dodge Charger: (it's a hearse but f**k it)
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/dodge-charger-hearse/36116628

I hate the doors on the i8, the 90's was 30 years ago!