BMW i8 Cool or Poor Engineering Choices?

[G. David Felt]

G. David Felt
Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer
www.CheersandGears.com

 

BMW i8 Cool or Poor Engineering Choices?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTNKiTrX0Vk

 

BMW Technicians go over the BMW i8 on how to open the doors and the hood in the You Tube Video above. This made me just go WOW as questions flooded my mind on how in my own opinion this is poorly engineered. In reading the posted comments, it would seem many think like I do.

 

From the comments on BMW is starting to be like Apple, you have to pay them to do anything even basic like fill washer fluid to the most common broken item is the manual door release if your fob release fails to work or you need to get out in an emergency to the certified BMW technician who calls the door switches and hood latches the most flimsy he has ever seen. It even takes two people to open the hood to get access to basic items to refill and you have no way to hold it up unless you use two Phillip screw drivers in hing holes to hold the hood up.

 

Do not think about pushing just anywhere to close the hood as you can crack or break the hood and if you do not have even pressure on both sides by the two people you end up with flex which will crack the hood.

 

Just getting to the Hood release requires releasing manual pull cables one on each side of the door jam.

 

Over all, I did not see one positive comment on this car from the posting and it really shows how crazy BMW is to think people will pay the type of money for this auto that is so poorly engineered.

 

Watch The Video!

 

Sound Off, what do you think of these items?

[balthazar]

Seen that- it's kinda stupid; not sure how these things got passed.