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No replacement panels available in NZ and freight from USA is prohibitive. It turns out that the body repair shop can treat it much like a plastic bumper, anyway, and repaint. So that's good.

I have a scratch/gouge 1mm - 2 mm deep on one white body panel, which I need to get fixed. I don't believe any panelbeaters in my area will have come across CRP before. I'm wondering what information I can give them that will help them to know what is required: What fill material should be...

Thanks for those clear explanations. :-) If I right-click on the "image" and then select "Open image in new tab", then I get to see the image. Does that work for you(s)?

OK. Thanks for that reply alohart. I'm a bit confused about the relationship between: Car displayed SOC and the electrified one Car displayed KAPPA and the electrified SOH A YouTube post suggests that electrified is just reading the KAPPA number from the car Here is a screen shot of the...

Ran the battery down to 7.5% then charged it to 100% leaving it plugged in a further 5 hours. Tried the VeePeak ODB again (and this time I turned the car on to READY). It works :) Electrified reports: Cell V 4.12 (range 4.11 - 4.12) 86.9 AmpHours 85% SOH Those last two don't seem to stack...

Thanks alohart I have a VeePeak ODBCheck BLE. Downloaded electrified. Wouldn't connect - "ODB is out of range or switched off" But BimmerCode and BimmerLink each connect. Anyway, I'll deplete the battery and fully charge - leaving it charging overnight after getting to 100% and re-check the...

Thanks eNateand alohart. Things are always more complicated than I have assumed! Is it important to do both the discharge below 10% as well as the 100% charge - or, as alohart intimates, just the 100% charge? My SOH figures are reported, not from any 3rd party app, but just the "hidden menu"...

I bought my 2016 94aH 33kWh BEV in 2019. It's SOH was 28.6 kWh when I bought it. I record the SOH each month. The SOH has declined at a reasonably regular rate since mid 2019 to 27.4 kWh in mid 2023 (0.023% per month). In the last two months it has "fallen off the cliff" and is now at 26.6...

I have been doing a timed charge for over a year, now. My first method was just to use an electro/mechanical timer, Whenever the charge got down to less than 30%, (every 2-3 days) I'd use the timer to give it ,say, 9 hours of charge - or whatever I felt was needed to take it back up to around...

Interesting. I had the identical symptoms. Main FOB wouldn't unlock car or let me drive it. Spare FOB - same thing. Replaced batteries in both FOB's using unused batteries purchased a year ago from a dollar shop. Same result. - The batteries tested a 3V+ Bought new Eveready lithium batteries...

After that post referring to the manual, I had a detailed search and found the quote (now linked by Nate) on page 150 of my manual. No thanks to either the Table of Contents or the Index. But that is good to hear from the horse's mouth. 25cm max - at no more than 5kph. Thanks for the info and...

Wow! So, the water level was up to almost the bottom of the registration plate on the Kangoo. That looks to be 400mm or so. So... no BANG! - but yes I wonder if there were any longer term consequences. Thanks for posting.

Thanks Nate. If we assume that the HV sealing (on a 5 year old car) is no longer reliable, do we know how high above ground level are the lowest HV connections. I'd also be interested to learn: what are the immediate consequences of an HV connection being immersed in fresh water - for maybe 5...

Yes, I get that it is "not recommended", but on occasion, if you can drive through that big puddle, you can get home. I guess I'm really asking whether there are any considerations around the high voltage in an EV that might alter what you otherwise consider to be a reasonable dunking to get...

Climate change is increasingly making itself felt through heavy rain events. What is the recommended practice for driving an 13 when flood waters of various depths are encountered - and why? Clearly if water remains below the level of the sill then proceeding is OK, but what about levels above this?

Great. Thanks for that useful link :)

I'm wondering what depth of water it is safe to drive through i a BEV i3. And what are the things that will stop it?

Here's some figures - first time out of town for a while. 76 km from home (by GPS) i3 says 142 km range left - so I have 66 km buffer. When I get home the range left is 29kms (not 66, or anything like it). So, in driving an actual 76 km I have used up 113 km of the apparent range the car...

Mine errs on the side of optimism. I'd prefer the other way: but, yes, it does get more accurate as the battery gets further down. My i3 is ex UK and is definitely 2016 and 94ah. WBY1Z62070V719113

Thanks 3pete My feeling is (but not measured) that it overestimates the range, at the start of a trip, by around 20%. Here in New Zealand there is not a dense population of charging stations, so, if you just start to look for one at 25%, then you are already up the creek without a paddle. It...