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To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Fri Feb 06 2026 08:21 am

KW >the BMW boards showed cars with limited degradation and 100,000+ miles.

RM> The wear out is probably linked more to battery age than the miles
RM> put on the car so you'd need to know both..


KW>Agreed, these were 2014/2015s, the first years the made the BMW i3.

So it sounds like they are standing up better than most.
You sort of expect the more costly cars to have better parts..

RM> Really? An odd size then.. Probably done purposely to sell their
RM> expensive tires..  Possibly new wheels could be purchased that
RM> are a more common size, but that's an expensive change.

KW>Well, they don't get the money for the tires, Bridgestone does. I'm sure
  >it's an engineer designing in a vacuum for lowest possible rolling
  >resistance.

Begging the question, would most drivers even notice ?

KW>Like the engineer that canted the spark plugs back 30 degrees on the Prius.
  >If they'd canted them forward, changing them would be a breeze. As is, you
  >need to take off the wipers, the wiper valance and other parts to get to
  >them.

Ha.. Like the 8 cylinder AMC Gremlin X cars in the 70's. There was
no way to change one or two of the spark plugs without pulling the
engine from the car, although some clever people figured out that
you could cut a good sized hole in the inner fender wells and pull
the tire to get at those plugs..

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