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      08-02-2012, 07:13 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by tommolog View Post
Were you told it was going to Woodcliff Lake? I'd like to know why if that's the case. All service in now performed at the dealerships unless it involves work on the high voltage battery system. Do you have a specific problem? If not the dealer should be doing the service. The only other reason they would send it to NJ would be if the ActiveE technician at your dealer was on vacation or on extended leave.
They want my car because they think its the key to solving to sleep problems that they have on chargepoint (Coulomb) chargers.

Im a unique case as I use the same charging at home that I do at work. I take my charging station with me to and from so that I can charge while im at work because my job is about 60 miles from my house and I occasionally end up having to run around the city going to meetings.


At my house, the car never falls asleep, but at work it does. The only differences that anyone has been able to come up with is that I charge at 6.4 at my home but only 5.7 at work. That and NYC voltage throttles (down to lows of about 205 Volts). So BMW had requested my car and my charger to figure out if the sleep issues are simply a result of low charge rate or something more suspicious.



Also my regen brakes (I know its not actually brakes) have only been grabbing at about half of their usual force lately. That and my car stutters slightly when starting to move from a stop. So its been sent to Jersey because they think they might need to do a motor swap on it.




I just cant get lucky and have a BMW that actually works for a change, can I?
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