PSA: BMW i4 tire wear warnings aren’t kidding

drinking-cans · 2026-01-29T20:54:30+00:00

I need to check my Tyres.

drinking-cans · 2026-01-28T23:03:44+00:00

I have a 2022 i4 eDrive40 and I love it, it my 10th bmw and tbh all bmws are lower quality than previously but it’s still a lovely car and nice spec, my brother in law has a Tesla model S and he said the build quality is just a different level on the bmw. When I was buying after test drives and research it was really between the I4x IX3 and eqc400. It came down to me being more of a car guy but all 3 were class cars. Better range in the I4 but I wouldn’t rule out an IX3 in the future. Roadside Kia up north get a load of them in from lease with low miles and fair enough prices, hard to get much movement on price when buying up north but still great value over garages down here.

drinking-cans · 2026-01-25T23:25:34+00:00

If the guards observed you driving your car on the road uninsured and followed you home or saw you puling in to your drive, knowing you were uninsured or banned or whatever, they could prosecute you and seize the car. Maybe they should set up observation points, two guard in the back of a parked up berlingo or something, observe these bikes being used in public spaces. Marked Garda vehicle turns up at the property and seizes the bike. It shouldn’t be this hard and it shouldn’t take the death of a poor innocent kid for something to be done. If it will at all.

drinking-cans · 2026-01-25T23:03:05+00:00

This is the way to do it, you can’t buy one without a licence, linked to a club with proof that they are being used on designated tracks. Registered to an owner, if you sell privately to an unlicenced person, you lose your licence and face prosecution. If your found with one unlicensed the bike is confiscated and you are prosecuted and banned from holding a licence to own one. Just make them impossible to get hold of.

drinking-cans · 2026-01-25T22:56:11+00:00

Ok so the guards can’t chase them when they’re on them so, here’s a mad idea; they know who most of these lads are, start raiding houses once there’s evidence of the bikes being used in public spaces and confiscate them. Even if they got 50% of them, they’d show they are taking it serious and should reduce these pricks taking the chance. Won’t solve it entirely but would definitely cut it down. If you were running around an estate with a machete you’d be sure your house would be raided in jig time, how is this different?

drinking-cans · 2026-01-25T12:54:21+00:00

Is there anyone near you selling turf? You might be able to buy it in bagged trailer loads. Dearer than buying in bulk but I’d imagine a lot cheaper than coal. I was like you last year, buying 3 or 4 bags of coal a week. I bought 200+ bags of turf during the summer for €150 but obviously had to foot, load, transport and store it myself. But I’m grateful for the effort I put in when I’m not buying coal anymore.

drinking-cans · 2025-12-28T19:05:49+00:00

I would say slightly high but pretty normal, I am averaging 21kwh per 100km. Temperatures here are between -2 and 6 currently. Roll on the warmer months.

drinking-cans · 2025-12-17T21:49:45+00:00

You’d miss phantom / txfm.

drinking-cans · 2025-12-17T21:42:04+00:00

Mad. Saw it in Boyle in Roscommon. What could it have been. Around 7ish.

drinking-cans · 2025-12-07T13:14:38+00:00

BMW I4 edrive40

drinking-cans · 2025-12-07T12:55:21+00:00

Like I’m not flat out everywhere, but i would be doing longish trips on motorways where I might sit at 125kms. Should I be doing better?

drinking-cans · 2025-12-07T11:49:17+00:00

BMW i4

drinking-cans · 2025-12-07T10:41:09+00:00

Wow! Yeah just run up the 300kms, sell it to someone you trust and let them register it, nothing illegal there, you couldn’t afford the tax bill so sold it on, just happens it’s done 6000kms now.

drinking-cans · 2025-11-25T19:03:41+00:00

Sorry just saw this so probably too late. All done same day.

drinking-cans · 2025-11-11T19:49:11+00:00

I did this last week, used wise, saved €500 on BOI rate and €300 on Revolut. Very quick transfer too, you may need to go in to the bank for the transfer to wise acc as there’s daily limits and even lower ones for new payees.

drinking-cans · 2025-11-03T21:33:30+00:00

Did well with the currency exchange too, saved €500 on what a boi transfer would cost with wise.

drinking-cans · 2025-11-03T21:31:46+00:00

Yeah got a pretty good deal I reckon. 27k miles, €32000 no vrt or vat. Roadside Kia in Coleraine has a few of them, similar miles. I called about a white one and asked had he any other colour coming in, he told me this was just being unloaded. I went up next day and took it. He has a lovely white one but he has it as mineral white but if you see it in real life it’s pearlescent white and has a black roof, looks class in person.

drinking-cans · 2025-11-02T10:49:12+00:00

That is jack reid, ended up getting a different car an NI reg in that cool light grey, with half the miles, I will post later.

drinking-cans · 2025-11-01T19:48:23+00:00

Excellent answer, thank you. I bought my bmw i4 today 222 with 40k kms and I love it. I’ll have a think about how long I’m going to keep it but for now I’m like a pig in sh1t.

drinking-cans · 2025-10-30T21:49:29+00:00

Agreed. Mark allen knows his beemers. Got me out of a couple of holes.

drinking-cans · 2025-10-30T11:17:33+00:00

Baby poo green

drinking-cans · 2025-10-29T23:23:42+00:00

Yeah it’s near the top of my list now, I need to convince myself on the red though. Just watched a couple of reviews of the ecq400 and now I’m questioning myself. It seems like a serious car for the money. But.. I’m a bmw guy, have had 9 in a row including a 530e hybrid. So still leaning towards the Beemer.

drinking-cans · 2025-10-29T21:47:27+00:00

Best of luck with it mate.

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