New i3s owner in Leeds, UK with National grid issues

[electriclightweight]

New to me 2019 i3s 120. It's my first EV but not my first BMW. Love the car so far. Unfortunately I'm struggling to get a charge point installed at home as the house I have is from 1910. Northern powergrid can't even give me a date when they will come and sort it out as it's not urgent. Tried making a complaint but got nowhere. Very frustrating! So granny charging and local charging for the foreseeable future.

 

[Mondomensch]

Looks great!

 

[electriclightweight]

Looks great!

Thanks!

 

[i3m3fan]

New to me 2019 i3s 120. It's my first EV but not my first BMW. Love the car so far. Unfortunately I'm struggling to get a charge point installed at home as the house I have is from 1910. Northern powergrid can't even give me a date when they will come and sort it out as it's not urgent. Tried making a complaint but got nowhere. Very frustrating! So granny charging and local charging for the foreseeable future.

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there are wys around this. dm me

 

[TedStriker]

Unless you do a lot of miles, granny charging can be perfectly ok.

 

[drcarrera]

Jealous you managed to find a red i3S!
As Ted says above, granny charging may be OK. We got our i3S last Autumn and decided to see how we got on with granny charging before we forked out for a charge point. We've got on fine. We're on Octopus and I typically set it to charge in the cheap overnight time slot which equates to 3 hours a night and also top up in the day if our solar is generating excess power (not likely at the moment!). We do less than 100 miles a week so it's fine like this and some weeks I don't need to charge it at all.
I made sure I checked the socket and circuit its plugged into to ensure it could handle the constant(ish) 10A - if unsure get it checked by an electrician. When I first started I used the medium current setting for a few days before ramping up to the maximum just to be on the safe side.
It's such a brilliant car - we love ours!