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Alohart - thanks for the info. I will run my battery down as suggested by Tom and see what happens. My car was bought in Sept 14 but has less than 10k miles on it.

Thanks Tom, great summary. I will check mine asap! How can we check what software issue the car has?

Does anyone actually bother to click on links like these?

Personally, I would not buy an EV at the moment as there residual value keeps heading towards zero as better cars come to market. Have you considered the Hyundai Ionic? Less than £30k with all the bells and whistles and with a 5 year warranty. Don’t know their lease deals but at that price it...

I would like to be able to have the car stop charging when it reached a predetermined SOC. For example, I only need the car to be charged to 50 miles range for tomorrows trips and as I am charging using mainly the output from my PV I don't want or need to take more power then necessary for this...

Try putting it is the for sale section and adding some details such as price and the last 7 numbers of the vin. You may get some interest then.

Ref the Tesla - I was referring to the 3 series so I don't think your comment will be so valid then. In addition, I prefer not to rely on public chargers. I regularly drive in excess of 200 miles without an enforced break hence my desire for 300 miles. Until you can guarantee that a public...

Nothing heard in UK.

With the Hyundai IONIQ already available with 124 miles and the Jaguar iPace and Tesla claiming 300 miles plus then BMW need to up their game. Otherwise, when this lease finishes I’ll be off!

BMW can adjust the wiper sensitivity if its a problem!

Not interested if its just faster. What I want for my next EV is more range.

sdi - I assume you are in uk - I frequently leave my soc to run down until the REX cuts in automatically and have never has a problem. The only thing you need to watch is that it takes the REX a little while to warm up until it produces full power. When the rex is at full power it will maintain...

Thank you very much for the info and updates.

Can’t claim to be a frequent user of the app, but it has always connected when i have used it.

I’m still using the I Remote app without any problems! Given the dreadful reviews of the BMW Connected App on the apple app store I can see not reason to get it?

Going back to the original post - If that had happened to me I would have just declined the purchase and asked for my money back as the car, in UK consumer rights language, is NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE.

My experience is the same as psquare. Give the REX time to warm up to full power and all is well.

Have you considered the Hyundai Ioniq?

I have used my standard iPhone lead with my i3 for years without any problem and a standard USB lead with other devices.

Unfortunately, these solutions are all fine but too late after you realise there is a problem. Never had this area on other cars chip so easily so didn’t anticipate a problem. Now it is too late as the marks are already there. Would have been far better if BMW could have used a surface treatment...