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Otherwise all better now. Was in a bad mood because our x5 blew or so I thought the transfer case which was going to cost me over 5g's and they where pushing for a transmission as well so over 10g's total, Ended up changing the fluid by myself because they would not do it and advised against it and after fluid change all the transmission and transfer case issues went away. Now it drives like new again. Told my wife to tell me when these driving issues come up so we can catch them earlier. Either way I'm in a way better mood. Still hate my dealer and their miss information all the time. Like you I love the i3 why I bought it vs leased it and look forward to owning it for a very long time. Otherwise lets get back to our regular scheduled program . |
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A few local dealers flat out refused to change tranny fluid in my old E46 and then again Mini Cooper S. I ended up doing both myself, and both improved transmission smoothness and speed of gear changes. For better of worse, these are not the challenges i3 owners will ever face. Electronics and charging - yeah, we've got those. This reminds me - time to get back on the phone with the service department and schedule another visit to fix the newly disabled drive side seat heater. *sigh* a
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If they do this, it's going to hurt the EPA range rating of the 2017 REx, because there won't be as much energy readily available in pure EV mode. However I expect them to do this to end the issues it has with regards to reduced power. If they do this, the car will have about 2.75 kWh in reserve when the REx turns on, more than double what it currently has. Combine that with tuning the engine to deliver a little more power would eliminate the reduced power issues for just about any circumstance. It won't completely solve the problem, because if someone wants to climb a 20 mile long, 6% grade at 75 MPH there's nothing that's going to solve that with this current car, short of allowing the manual hold mode at 75% SOC. One way to tell is to take a look at the EPA range ratings for the 2017 BEV and REx cars. Currently the REx penalty is 9 miles of range (72 miles compared to 81 miles per charge for BEV). If the 2017 REx has more than 10 miles less range (EPA rating) then the BEV, then I think it's safe to say they held more energy for the REx low end buffer.
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So is there a fix? It happened to me a few weeks ago driving to CVG airport and yes - it's scary and I was cursing like mad. It was a huge deal as I was doing just over 70 in the fast lane and then wham - won't go over like 50mph. Even worse, I was trying to catch a flight and that extra time pissed me off even more. They should offer the ability to code the vehicle to allow owners to do a hold state of charge to whatever percent they feel comfortable with.
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I could also say you didn't plan your trip correctly and you should have charged your i3 so this would not happen. Their's no reason what so ever i3 owners do not read their i3 handbook supplied and know the cars limitations. It's only in America cars have all these alarms to wake drivers up to what they should be doing. Now Americans need autonomous cars because alarms are not working so lets stop Americans driving all together.
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