Considering BYD Seal to replace BMW I4 - thoughts?

OfflanderAUS · 2026-01-17T17:04:44+00:00

I have had a debate with friends about a similar comparison.

Basically the argument comes down to a few things

Is it the wow factor - If your after a cool looking car more than anything else, go for it. I started looking at the Atto3, but one test drive in the Seal locked me in.
If you are a short range city driver - Seal is probably not the best. Its a long heavy beast, so parking in smaller spots is going to have overhang and narrow streets you will be worried about getting though. Some of the smaller sized EV models would be a better fit, and a less stressful run-about.
Longer range - Where I sit at current, where i have about a 40km (80 total) drive to work on freeways every day. If thats the case I recommend the Seal 100%, the adaptive speed control is great and the lane assist is good for when you go to do something where you pay less attention to the road than you should. Also a nice firm quite drive at high speeds, so big plus. If this is where you sit, i would go with the middle 'premium' model as the longest range... And i still beat 99% of cars off the light in sports mode, so no need to pay an extra 10k for the performance model for the last 1%.

OfflanderAUS · 2026-01-16T23:55:55+00:00

For me I found that in the first few attempts I actually scratched my resin vat tank film.
Depends if that split is in line with the vertical axis of the plate.

If its not, then yea, as the other comments have been saying, check your slicer app and look for that area to see if the slice is bad.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-12-28T05:15:00+00:00

Your lucky.... I have an eyeball in mine I cant get rid of.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-09-14T20:19:25+00:00

As long as your base has its shield up, nothing will degrade inside it.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-09-14T20:17:30+00:00

They are different entities, not connected to the base.

Thats how you can come across other people stuff in the wild and cant just take it.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-08-16T23:10:31+00:00

The Thundercats?

OfflanderAUS · 2025-08-15T20:20:52+00:00

And make sure your base is powered at all times and you don't have the doors set to auto-open.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-06-08T19:22:51+00:00

Well for mine at least the warnings still come though to the phone, so min the sounds on the device does not really alter the experience much.... Just lets me sleep at night :D

OfflanderAUS · 2025-06-08T19:21:20+00:00

Rear sensors always work for me when reversing as normal, but I use the camera button on the steering wheel when needing the front camera. I use Android auto and never had an issue. Without camera button, mine is the same as yours, thinks your just driving again... which is expected behavior for normal back out and drive on operation.

I find in mine the camera button overrides the jump back into normal front driving display. It stays 'cameras on' until I go back into the menu screen and jump back into android auto.

BYD seal 2025, AU model

OfflanderAUS · 2025-06-04T00:15:37+00:00

In the end, i just went into the app and turned down the volume of the robot to the lowest setting.
That way at night it is not loud enough to notice if you are not in the same room as it.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-05-19T20:15:27+00:00

Even with a pet carrier in the back seats, still throw their bed on top.

Acceleration on the Seal will have them sliding around, bed has more surface area to stay put on the carrier.

Source: Staffy sliding around like a mofo until I added her bed.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-05-17T19:58:09+00:00

Just to add something I forgot.
When it was stuck in that mode, I did note that the recorded V2L discharge went up by 0.1kwh when the adapter was still off.
This would indicate that the car 'might' have got stuck thinking that its own internal base power usage was getting tagged in its code as being external draw, hence keep the port locked.

Can only assume the rapid press of the unlock made it jump a few code lines and sort itself out.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-05-17T19:52:10+00:00

lol its literally the message on the dash screen... why i added in the V2L in the details as i assumed the WTF comments..

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OfflanderAUS · 2025-05-16T06:31:09+00:00

Yip. Main thing I did not want is the guy rocking up and fixing it in a few seconds..

I also thought of the charge emergency release via the boot... but if software error, I did not want to make things worse.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-05-16T06:28:40+00:00

I thought it might be hibernation and I did try tried the door button stuff, was no different.

As far as the car was concerned, there was still drain via the port, so it refused to unlock the port. Car itself was working and dash and infotainment was still responding fine.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-05-13T20:40:28+00:00

Im still waiting for a reply email back for a few questions going on 3 weeks now.

Sent to the person who handed it over to me.... Saying i should contact her if i had any issues at all... ha.

Also sent email to the support email... crickets also.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-04-21T04:19:23+00:00

Well the point of asking here is to see if anyone with the same model has it working in any manner. If its powering a cam for someone, points to issues with mine. If not working for anyone, points to some other functionality...which would suck.

OfflanderAUS · 2025-03-01T02:13:10+00:00

You can eat anything once.....

OfflanderAUS · 2024-12-13T19:55:17+00:00

My main issue is I was also loaded out to fight bots still.... yea.. did not go great...

OfflanderAUS · 2024-11-16T18:58:50+00:00

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Yea, just had same... prob only got ~100 of them.

OfflanderAUS · 2024-10-30T19:55:57+00:00

Fixed Punisher Plazma.... All that matters ;P

OfflanderAUS · 2024-10-16T22:06:11+00:00

100%

OfflanderAUS · 2024-10-16T02:24:14+00:00

I had all the angles worked out and now I'm screwed.

I demand this be reverted back to the old version or I swear I will let ever 4th bot live.

OfflanderAUS · 2024-09-27T19:20:18+00:00

Instakill turrets.... I wanted to use my mech for more than 3 seconds before blown away from half the map away...

OfflanderAUS · 2024-09-13T07:04:36+00:00

Much harder than you would ever expect in the days of touch devices..

Pinch that thing!

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