No matter what tram brand or how much price the car is, it will be more or less criticized in terms of battery life and hot air conditioning, but these problems do not have much impact on consumers, but they just need to be charged frequently, but BMW's trams have a concentrated outbreak of "leakage" problems.
Recently, according to some BMW i3 owners on the Internet, their cars in the winter, there is a large area of antifreeze leakage problem, and the proportion of this problem is very high, basically a group of friends of the BMW i3 10 cars have antifreeze leakage, the proportion of northern car owners is higher, 10 cars can leak.
And this leakage doesn't happen at sub-zero. We randomly selected one of the consumers as an example, this consumer picked up the car for a total of three months, the mileage is only 3,000 kilometers to just meet the standard of the first insurance, and according to the owner's description of his environment is not as bad as below zero in the north, but has been 2-4 degrees, but there is still an antifreeze leak, so that many BMW i3 owners are at risk.
You must know that BMW i3 sales this year, especially in the second half of the year, can be described as a sudden rise, this is mainly because of the previous large number of price cuts resulting in i3 price concessions of up to 120,000 yuan, that is, the overall car price has fallen to less than 250,000 yuan, which is a lot lower than the fuel version of the 3 series, blue sky treasure cloud standard + three series of tuning, 200,000 i3 is indeed cost-effective.
According to the data, BMW i3 sold 6,160 units in November, and the cumulative sales in 2023 will be close to 50,000 units.
It is precisely because the sales of BMW i3 this year are so high, after this problem, in fact, a large number of consumers are involved, and many people have never thought that BMW, which is known for its quality and luxury, will fail so much in the tram.
In fact, this situation also happened to the oil car 3 Series, and even because the number of complaints about the new 3 Series was too large, it was once boarded"Complaint list"。According to the owner's report, during the driving process, the screen suddenly appeared to prompt a warning of lack of coolant, and the coolant water pipe was broken, resulting in the rapid loss of antifreeze.
However, the situation of BMW i3 is completely different from the situation of the new 3 series, according to the feedback of the owner, after the 4S shop tested, it was confirmed that the entire coolant transfer valve leaked, and it needs to be replaced, of course, because BMW i3 owners are within the warranty period, so it can be repaired and replaced free of charge, but this accessory needs to be imported from Germany by the 4S shop, and the final repair time cannot be determined, at least 20 days or more.
What's more, consumers can't judge whether the problem will appear again next winter or even every winter after the replacement of parts, because in the official maintenance of BMW i3, the cost of the coolant transfer valve is 4640 yuan, and this does not include the cost of working hours, the overall calculation must be more than 5000 yuan, if it is repaired every winter in the future 5000 yuan, I believe that no owner can accept it.
Because of this, some car owners put forward the hope that BMW manufacturers will extend the national warranty of the whole vehicle for one year, and the parts will be extended for three years, and at the same time compensate BMW Tram for a long Yue maintenance** and 10,000 vouchers in the store, but unfortunately, BMW does not have any official remedy for the leakage problem of BMW i3 models at this stage, and only allows consumers to repair and replace them in 4S stores.
In fact, it is reasonable for the BMW i3 to have such a problem, because it is a complete gasoline-to-electric product. In fact, many people's perception of oil-to-electric is not too strong, and it seems that for consumers, the gap between oil-to-electric models and pure electric platform models is not large, it is nothing more than opening the hood to look ugly and sitting a little higher, but in essence, it is very different.
As we all know, the oil-to-electric conversion is a model that is directly put into the three-electric system after hollowing out the engine compartment, which involves many design problems, such as the antifreeze leakage of the BMW i3.
For oil trucks, antifreeze is actually mainly to maintain the temperature of the engine and ensure that it runs in the high-efficiency range, but for the tram, the entire battery, motor, wire pipe, The cockpit air conditioner needs to add antifreeze, which means that the number of coolant interfaces can only be expanded for oil-to-electric models (most of the oil-to-electric coolant interfaces are more than 5), and the increase of circulating pipelines increases the risk of coolant leakage, and the requirements for quality control and assembly quality are also higher, but the coolant parts of BMW i3 do not meet such a high standard, resulting in a low temperature and leakage naturally.
In fact, the same thing has also appeared on a large area of Mercedes-Benz's EQC models in 2021, I have to say that at the level of oil-to-electricity, Mercedes-Benz and BMW are worthy of being good brothers who have loved and killed each other for many years.
However, BMW's pure electric platform is ready to go next year, and I hope that BMW can look at the protection of its brand's new energy reputation and launch some remedial measures to make these BMW i3 owners feel at ease.