Used BMW i3 experiences

Orebro

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Even better.

Only a few weeks to go to Brexit then Irish car prices will rise a lot I'd say ?

Only if theres a no deal exit - otherwise it’ll be a transition period for a couple of years so the status quo is maintained for another while.

Genghis

Genghis wrote: »

Thanks Mad_Lad, great info. On your previous post, if I got the VIN from the dealer where is the decoder to get the same info? Any question you would ask the dealer, I've put some basic questions to them and they seem like a good outfit, if a little bit unsure of EVs.

Here’s how to check battery capacity but expect older cars to have dropped a bit.

https://bmwi3owner.com/2016/01/secrets/

I3 64 ah 2014-late 2016 had about 21 kwh new.

Try here for vin decoder , don’t enter the entire VIN only from Vxxxxx

http://bimmer.work/

Gumbo

Genghis wrote: »

Thanks kceire, now that's the sort of conclusion I'd never reach by myself!

Can live without privacy, it looks from one of the pics to actually had some reverse assist (pic of i3, with reversing zones shown), interesting it may not have that, again though I could live without.

Anything you'd recommend I ask the dealer? How best to assess battery health for the i3? I don't yet have a picture of dash but is there a 'bar' indicator as in Leaf to show battery health? Anything else critical to check?

Thanks both, ye are fantastic.

That’s just standard rear parking sensors. Which help a lot.
The park assist package adds reverse camera, front and side sensors and the car parks itself not that I’ll ever use that feature!

I spent today cleaning inside the car and updating the nav maps from 2016-2 to 2019-1.

Genghis

Deleted User wrote: »

Here’s how to check battery capacity but expect older cars to have dropped a bit.

https://bmwi3owner.com/2016/01/secrets/

I3 64 ah 2014-late 2016 had about 21 kwh new.

Try here for vin decoder , don’t enter the entire VIN only from Vxxxxx

http://bimmer.work/

Thanks Mad_Lad, very useful. Will send that guide to dealer and see what comes back.

kceire wrote: »

That’s just standard rear parking sensors. Which help a lot.
The park assist package adds reverse camera, front and side sensors and the car parks itself not that I’ll ever use that feature!

I spent today cleaning inside the car and updating the nav maps from 2016-2 to 2019-1.

Thanks kceire.

Gumbo

Picked up my new car on Thursday in London.

2016 94ah BEV
Fluid Black
20”
HK
Privacy Glass
Leather
Adaptive LED
Sunroof
Pro Nav/Media
Reverse Camera
Front & Rear PDC
Park Assist
Has all the usuals such as heated seats, cruise control, pedestrian warning etc

Gave the interior a clean today, but weather turned before i could get to the outside.

Also coded in the following :
video in motion
advanced codec and video playback from usb
auto fold mirrors without delay on locking
rear lights on with DRL
exterior handle lights on when reversing.

First impressions are that its a lot firmer on the road. Reminds me of driving a well sorted Starlet GT Turbo, and for those that know, those handled well. 20” wheels are firm, but i must check tyre pressures tomorrow.

No real plans for it other than drive and try keep clean.
It’s still under Bmw warranty and came with all the online features until October of this year.

n97 mini

Well wear!

Nice alright, love the all black !

The 20" wheels might be a bit firmer than my 19" but I don't find the 19" uncomfortable at all.

Take it for a decent spin on some back roads.

unkel

Looks sweet in black, well wear!

kceire wrote: »

Picked up my new car on Thursday in London.

So you did go over yourself then after all? How was the trip home, had you prepared well for the charging? What app(s) did you use?

Mickeroo

That looks savage kceire, well wear. Any pic of the front? Love the all black.

I used to file the i3 alongside the old shape leaf in the looks department but it's really grown on me.

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What's the battery range on these?

Rhea Tender Revolutionary

Rhea Tender Revolutionary wrote: »

What's the battery range on these?

On the 64 Ah with roughly 18 Kwh usable about 100-120 Kms maybe 130 Summer, some will have lost some capacity by now.

94 Ah roughly 29 Kwh usable about 150-200 Kms lower being Winter and higher being Summer, I have got 230 Kms from 94 Ah rex in Summer , this is the higher end of the scale at less than motorway speeds.

Genghis

Sweet looking car kceire, the very best spec as well. Wish you all the best of luck with it!

Gumbo

unkel wrote: »

Looks sweet in black, well wear!



So you did go over yourself then after all? How was the trip home, had you prepared well for the charging? What app(s) did you use?

No. It worked out cheaper and less hassle to have it on the back of a truck. Paid €400 door to door. Flight and ferry was costing me that alone without the hassle of food, driving the 6 hour stint to hollyhead and then having to have a mixture of apps to work the network over there.

Plus the fact I done the same trip 4 weeks ago while collecting our F10, I just didn’t fancy it to be honest.

I agree though, part of the fun is collecting the vat and that’s where you really get to know it and as such I’ve been popping out to the shops just for the sake of it just to get some drive time

Gumbo

Rhea Tender Revolutionary wrote: »

What's the battery range on these?

When I cokevtes it it had 92% charge and the GOM was saying 164km in comfort mode. 180 is eco plus. *thise are the GOM, so take with pinch of salt.

Gumbo

Mickeroo wrote: »

That looks savage kceire, well wear. Any pic of the front? Love the all black.

I used to file the i3 alongside the old shape leaf in the looks department but it's really grown on me.

I’ll tey get some today if I get a chance to give it a quick clean.

slave1

Dont book the VRT until March 1st onward else you'll pay (tenner) road tax for February

Gumbo

slave1 wrote: »

Dont book the VRT until March 1st onward else you'll pay (tenner) road tax for February

Vrt is 8th March.
Date f import is feb so they’ll no me for feb anyway the feckers.

slave1

Road tax is only due from date of VRT, you'll be grand, tenner to get some Easter Eggs

mordeith

Does anyone know what the deal is with the heated mirrors. I presume they are standard but can't say I notice them working too well. Condensation stayed on them for ages this morning. I read somewhere they might only work fully when in Comfort mode?

Gumbo

mordeith wrote: »

Does anyone know what the deal is with the heated mirrors. I presume they are standard but can't say I notice them working too well. Condensation stayed on them for ages this morning. I read somewhere they might only work fully when in Comfort mode?

If they are similar to the heated seats then they may only
Work in comfort or eco. I noticed in eco pro, even the heated seats don’t work.

Gumbo

First full charge to 100% this morning.
GOM stayed 206km in eco pro mode. 195 in comfort.

Drove the usual route from job to a particular site and used 1.5% of battery where in the leaf it was mid teens in winter and 10-11 in summer.

KCross

mordeith wrote: »

Does anyone know what the deal is with the heated mirrors. I presume they are standard but can't say I notice them working too well. Condensation stayed on them for ages this morning. I read somewhere they might only work fully when in Comfort mode?

I dont know about the i3 but any car I've had the heated mirrors only worked when you turned on the rear window defog.

micks_address

kceire wrote: »

First full charge to 100% this morning.
GOM stayed 206km in eco pro mode. 195 in comfort.

Drove the usual route from job to a particular site and used 1.5% of battery where in the leaf it was mid teens in winter and 10-11 in summer.

what distance did you do? I'm guessing id easily get to work on back on a full batter - 37km each way..

unkel

kceire wrote: »

Drove the usual route from job to a particular site and used 1.5% of battery where in the leaf it was mid teens in winter and 10-11 in summer.

That can only mean one thing: the starting range on the GOM in the Leaf was way over stated and very quickly adapts to more realistic range

You did not really lose 10% of your range on a trip that lost you 1.5% in the BMW. Not even the Leaf is that inefficient

Gumbo

micks_address wrote: »

what distance did you do? I'm guessing id easily get to work on back on a full batter - 37km each way..

Sure you'd do that distance in a 2011 Leaf with 8-9 battery bars available.

unkel wrote: »

That can only mean one thing: the starting range on the GOM in the Leaf was way over stated and very quickly adapts to more realistic range

You did not really lose 10% of your range on a trip that lost you 1.5% in the BMW. Not even the Leaf is that inefficient

Yeah, no way its that efficient. The i3 used 4.5% to do a trip today, that last week took 20% in the Leaf. Weather is a bit better in fairness.

DrPhilG

First proper long trip in the i3 on Saturday.

Well apart from the drive home from Scotland but that was in the wee hours and I had an unexpected late passenger so I didn't bother with charging, just ran the REx.

Donegal to Belfast and back last Saturday. In the Leaf I'd have reached the other side of the Glenshane with about 30%, charge back to 80% on the rapid, drive on to Belfast and arrive with less than 20% left (due to a 30 mile motorway stretch).

I'd be reliant on charging on a standard somewhere, if not I'd have to stop at Shore Road or Applegreen and hope to God they were working. Then stop again at the Glenshane and charge to 80% or maybe 90% (the run back up the Glenshane Pass would eat at least 10%).

Worst case scenario if the weather was awful I might have to stop again in Derry for a rapid top up.

On Saturday, left home full and arrived at the Glenshane with 56%. Didn't need to charge but we were getting breakfast so charged for 25 minutes and left again with 98%.

Arrived in Belfast with about 50% and plugged into a 3kw slow charger at the Titanic Quarter car park. Left in the afternoon with a full charge and drove home without stopping. Glorious.

Noneange anxiety, no jumping through hoops for chargers, wellied down the motorway at 75-80mph and not a care in the world. Didn't use the REx either but nice to know it was there.

Soarer

I'd bloody love an i3.

unkel

Soarer wrote: »

I'd bloody love an i3.

Keep an eye on eBay, occasionally there's ones going for around the GBP10k mark for a base BEV. You can bring that in, drive it for a year and sell it on for a profit. Free motoring :cool:

DrPhilG

DrPhilG wrote: »

Didn't use the REx either but nice to know it was there.

Indeed and means you don't have to Leaf or ioniq it on long trips, you can put the boot down if you're under pressure.

So what if petrol has to be burned every couple of weeks ? it probably won't be that much more expensive when it costs to charge at Chargers.

MM3

kceire wrote: »

If they are similar to the heated seats then they may only
Work in comfort or eco. I noticed in eco pro, even the heated seats don’t work.

Heated seats work fine for me in Eco Pro, I think its Eco Pro+ where they get disabled.

MM3

Deleted User wrote: »

On the 64 Ah with roughly 18 Kwh usable about 100-120 Kms maybe 130 Summer, some will have lost some capacity by now.

94 Ah roughly 29 Kwh usable about 150-200 Kms lower being Winter and higher being Summer, I have got 230 Kms from 94 Ah rex in Summer , this is the higher end of the scale at less than motorway speeds.

GOM this morning on our 60Ah showed 127 in Eco Pro , its been hovering in around the 120 mark for the last few days

MM3

MM3 wrote: »

GOM this morning on our 60Ah showed 127 in Eco Pro , its been hovering in around the 120 mark for the last few days

What year is it ? how many Kwh is it reporting ?

https://bmwi3owner.com/2016/01/secrets/

Gumbo

MM3 wrote: »

Heated seats work fine for me in Eco Pro, I think its Eco Pro+ where they get disabled.

Sorry yes, eco pro plus.

DrPhilG

kceire wrote: »

Sorry yes, eco pro plus.

If you've bought an i3 and are driving it in Eco Pro Plus mode, please return the keys asap and hang your head in shame.

Gumbo

DrPhilG wrote: »

If you've bought an i3 and are driving it in Eco Pro Plus mode, please return the keys asap and hang your head in shame.

Nope, comfort all day long.
Sunroof open.
I had a leaf for 2 years and never drove in B mode at all.

I had to check it to see what it was like. I only have the thing 3 days like!

Got back to work in the afternoon, plugged it back in and at 4pm leaving work with 100%, comfort was displaying 209km.

Patser

DrPhilG wrote: »

If you've bought an i3 and are driving it in Eco Pro Plus mode, please return the keys asap and hang your head in shame.

Hahahaha, too fecking true. I've been too polite to mention it, especially when someone was saying they were going to code their car to have eco plus as default

If you've a 60ah BEV she'll stay level with an M3 to 60kmh, the most fun is leaving the Felt spec TDi Passat lads dead from the lights in your high seated, odd looking car.

It's the ultimate sleeper. Don't ruin it by all this anal debate about 'Well Nigel, I think you'll find that when it 12 Celsius, with a tail wind of no more than 15kmh and tyres inflated to such, I can run at .2kwh less than at 15 celsius, an my battery temperature will only be 5 degrees higher'

Feck that!!!!

The car is dirt cheap to run, floor it and recharge for free. You'll be ahead of all the soot the T diddley i -ers pump out to try match you.

mordeith

MM3 wrote: »

GOM this morning on our 60Ah showed 127 in Eco Pro , its been hovering in around the 120 mark for the last few days

Did 84km today in our 60ah and app is reporting 19% left. Drive was mix of 100 and 120 kph sections.

Soarer

unkel wrote: »

Keep an eye on eBay, occasionally there's ones going for around the GBP10k mark for a base BEV. You can bring that in, drive it for a year and sell it on for a profit. Free motoring :cool:

Tisn't the money. It's my sanity.

Gumbo

One pedal driving, seriously impressed!

The i3 60 Ah regen is different to the 94 Ah, seemingly the i3 94ah takes a lot longer to give full regen if you're on the motorway or travelling at higher speeds in general to make it feel much more like an ICE car, I actually prefer this to the more aggressive all or nothing regen when you lift off the throttle.

Then at slower speeds or in town it will brake much harder. I do like it.

Gumbo

Deleted User wrote: »

The i3 60 Ah regen is different to the 94 Ah, seemingly the i3 94ah takes a lot longer to give full regen if you're on the motorway or travelling at higher speeds in general to make it feel much more like an ICE car, I actually prefer this to the more aggressive all or nothing regen when you lift off the throttle.

Then at slower speeds or in town it will brake much harder. I do like it.

Yeah, I can feather the throttle to make it coast like like a traditional ICE, obviously I get no regen while doing this or I can completely lift off to gin regen.

Yes the Throttle acts like variable regen, the more you lift off the more regen you get, same as the Leaf but it's nice for a more gradual regen when you lift off then full on regen which can be a pain in the ass.

unkel

Patser wrote: »

If you've a 60ah BEV she'll stay level with an M3 to 60kmh, the most fun is leaving the Felt spec TDi Passat lads dead from the lights

You can even do that in your Ioniq - it never gets old

I think I need to test drive a 60Ah BEV i3. I signed up for go car, but all their cars are REx

Anyone know a BMW dealer in Dublin that has one for sale?

unkel

unkel wrote: »

I think I need to test drive a 60Ah BEV i3. I signed up for go car, but all their cars are REx

Don't do it, you will want one.

If you do then take it to the back roads.

Gumbo

unkel wrote: »

You can even do that in your Ioniq - it never gets old

I think I need to test drive a 60Ah BEV i3. I signed up for go car, but all their cars are REx

Anyone know a BMW dealer in Dublin that has one for sale?

Gather your tools to flash my ABL unit and you can take my car for a spin

mordeith

KCross wrote: »

I dont know about the i3 but any car I've had the heated mirrors only worked when you turned on the rear window defog.

Didn't work for either this morning with rear window defog on (driving in Eco Pro). Beginning to annoy me now. Surely it's standard on all versions? The ones on my 10 year old a4 have em cleared in a matter of minutes

ewj1978

AFAIK the heated mirrors only come on in comfort mode.

RTFM lads ?

MM3

unkel wrote: »

You can even do that in your Ioniq - it never gets old

I think I need to test drive a 60Ah BEV i3. I signed up for go car, but all their cars are REx

Anyone know a BMW dealer in Dublin that has one for sale?

We test drove this one before we bought ours http://www.carzone.ie/used-cars/bmw/i3/used-2016-161-bmw-i3-60ah-dublin-fpa-201809230782783

mordeith

[Deleted User] wrote: »

RTFM lads ?

Yes sir! :-)

According to manual: 'Both exterior mirrors are automatically heated whenever drive readiness is switched on.'

Well it doesn't work very well if so