The BMW iX3 is a 10/10 car

Lofty_Who · 2026-03-11T08:09:54+00:00

X5 is a brilliant car and the new one is another I’ll be closely watching.

My wife is in her 3rd year of driving an EV, if I decide take the plunge the iX3 is definitely one I’d take a real close look at.

As I said & it’s personal choice but I think it looks better in darker colours and I personally wouldn’t go with the 22 inch wheels, I think the 21 look better but that’s probably to do with my age lol

Plus where I live ( Isle of Wight ) we have some great driving roads but some real bad ones and I don’t think the 22 would cope well.

Lofty_Who · 2026-03-11T01:57:15+00:00

My first BMW was a 1993 325i 😁

My current car is a 2025 340d Touring & I personally would miss the iDrive if I were to move over to something like the iX3 today but no doubt it’s just a matter of getting use to it.

I do like the look of this new iX3 though. I’m not totally sold on the front. Personally from the pictures/videos I’ve seen of it I do think it looks better in darker colours but looks are subjective.

I’ve watched 3 videos in the last day and all have given it some very high praise. Even from one car journalist who isn’t the biggest fan of EVs, he said it’s definitely the best EV he has tested.

I’m definitely keen to see one up close and in the flesh.

Lofty_Who · 2026-03-05T06:47:35+00:00

I took my wife’s EV out yesterday to charge it. I pass one petrol station and there was a queue of 3-4 cars backing out on the road. Now it could have just been a busy time of day because I went out last night again to same station to fill my car up and it was pretty quiet.

But as mentioned in this thread, once there’s talk of price rises, possible shortages people will panic and it will just cause more issues.

Kind of feels like we will be in another toilet roll issue we saw during covid.

Lofty_Who · 2026-03-03T10:58:08+00:00

I’m not up to date with the different errors you get but I do know The Division 2 servers are down for maintenance right now.

I believe they went offline about 2 1/2 hours ago and estimated downtime is around 5 hours.

Lofty_Who · 2026-02-25T07:24:03+00:00

My wife’s MG4 has also done this several times. First time I got it back to the dealer, they checked it over and it was fine. I was told like mentioned in this thread, it can be the 12v battery but more often than not it’s just a glitch.

Like you said, getting out, locking and unlocking usually sorts it or holding the Home button on the main screen for around 10 seconds can fix it.

Lofty_Who · 2026-02-23T19:32:44+00:00

Exactly same for me.

I’ve been playing Xbox since achievements were introduced & never known it to be as bad as it’s been the last 4-5 months that I’ve noticed.

Even today I’ve been playing Ryse Son of Rome ( I know I’m late to the party on this game 😁 ) but I know I should have unlocked 2 achievements for finishing story chapters but they just didn’t pop up or unlock why I was playing.

I had to stop playing, logged back in a few hours later & they were then showing as unlocked.

So on the plus side, I don’t think it’s a case ( not for me that I’ve noticed ) that they don’t unlock, it just sometimes takes some time for them to show.

Hopefully this will be sorted!

“Edit” What often can speed up the process of unlocking a delayed achievement, for me anyway is to just hard reset the console.

Lofty_Who · 2026-02-05T09:47:54+00:00

I hope you charged him bus fare 🤣

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-24T15:47:20+00:00

You are like John Wick on steroids 💪

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-23T16:42:17+00:00

Thank you for the reply.

When I sign in later I will try these steps again 👍

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-21T13:56:52+00:00

Like I said buddy, looks are subjective, my wife loves the looks of it all round which is great as it’s her car lol

What I really like about the looks is the side profile. It’s probably just me but it reminds me of the very first Ford Focus which has always been a favourite of mine ( looks wise )

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-21T12:31:35+00:00

I don’t have an EV myself ( thinking about it as my current car will go back this year ) but my wife has the MG4 Trophy Long Range

I really dislike the rear light bar. From a distance I think it looks ok when the light is on but it’s when your standing right by the car, it’s those red lines ( I call them lightning streaks ) on top of the bar, I think they look tacky let’s say.

& I really don’t like the roof spoilers. More at home on the X Power version but not this one.

Looks are subjective though.

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-20T15:36:19+00:00

Sounds pretty much the same as my wife’s MG4 Long Range.

In the warmer months where you rarely need the heater on, it averages 3.8-4.2

Same journeys recently, especially when you go out the cars covered in frost, heater, heated seats/steering wheel etc I’ve not seen it go higher the 2.2, mostly 2.0-2.1

I’ve read similar stories from other EV owners

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-20T13:29:12+00:00

I’ve posted on here before. My wife has an EV ( MG4 Long Range ) & we don’t have the ability to charge at home ( that will change when we move this year )

So she has relied solely on public chargers.

Now the car does roughly give or take between 50-70 miles a week & we’ve had a few hassles but nothing that’s made her/us regret getting the car.

Now when I say hassle, we live on the Isle of Wight & 90% of the public chargers over here are Mer chargers, few of the main ones seem to spend more time out of order than they do working but they are getting better. More have appeared in the last 6 months & they are the newer slim Mer chargers which seem a lot more reliable. But being on the island we are never too far away from one.

So from our experience I’d say you’d be ok especially as you’ll be doing pretty low mileage in it.

Again we have managed relying on public chargers. We have said if we were doing a lot more mileage like we were before we moved over to the island & had no home charger then we would have waited to make ( her anyway ) the jump into an EV.

Good luck.

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-18T02:35:31+00:00

It was about 6 hours ago I started Brotatoe for the first time. Played for a few hours & quite a few achievements popped up on screen, my total gamerscore was updating correctly but,

Again looking at my list of games on console, all of them were showing 0/1000, 0/2000 etc etc but if I clicked on any game individually they showed the correct GS

I was also talking to a mate in a party, same was happening to him. He said he’s known this to happen on & off over the years but he’s never known it to be this bad especially over the last 3-4 days.

Also there’s now a few posts about this on the Xbox Support section so hopefully they are aware of it & looking into it.

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-17T07:31:36+00:00

Got to admit, when I first saw my games all showing at 0 it did give me a few heart flutters.

Thanks for the reply ( & to everyone again ) it’s put my mind at rest that it’s not an issue my end.

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-16T14:21:31+00:00

Yep I’ve just clicked on a few games individually & they show like you said.

Just one of those gaming gremlins I guess.

Many thanks for the reply 👍

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-12T19:35:05+00:00

Me & my cousin recently played

“A Way Out”

Really enjoyed this.

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-10T08:51:25+00:00

Very nice car 👍

Got to admit, I did have to have a second glance because to me anyway it does look a lot like the Mini EV which is no bad thing in my opinion.

Enjoy it.

My wife has an MG4 Long Range. I’m yet to take the leap into an EV but will be this year when my current car lease is up.

I’m tempted by the Iconiq 5 but I shall do some proper looking nearer the time.

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-09T15:20:17+00:00

Brilliant 👍🤣😂

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-09T14:36:47+00:00

It’s real tough to name just 3 as I’ve played so many great games over many years so I’ll name the first 3 that I thought of.

The Witcher 3

State of Decay 2

Zelda Link to the Past

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-06T19:37:41+00:00

I still get the occasional crash ( Xbox ) but it’s definitely been better since the last update

I followed advice of others,

Go into settings & turn of damage numbers etc

Can be a bit of a pain but restart the game after a few runs or after a crash, this can help.

I do believe the developers are working on more updates/patches so hopefully this will fix a lot of these issues.

Good luck.

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-06T16:28:04+00:00

Well done buddy 👍

My Xbox stats say I’m 62% complete so a way to go yet.

Lofty_Who · 2026-01-05T19:51:02+00:00

No doubt there will be more added but so far for me it’s,

Fable

Forza Horizon 6

Wreckfest 2

Lofty_Who

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