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Sad story about the offer, Jeff! I don't check in here much anymore, but still miss our B Class, although one wouldn't serve our needs anymore, as we now have an even longer winter commute and the work hours charging availability is still super dicey. Glad to hear that the B Class continued to...

I'm receiving that as good news, as I look forward to seeing what you get next, and likewise I think that what is available will continue to swing toward greater things during the additional year. It's funny that I keep checking in here, usually when it comes time to do maintenance/repair to the...

Jeff - Glad to hear it! Just popping in to see how things are going around here. The Audi we've been using which replaced our B-class is OK, but we've missed some things about the B. Lots of range-charging B class available at CarMax right now, but prices haven't fully adjusted compared to i3...

I'm glad to hear this. If we get into another B-class, it will certainly have the range charge feature and the electrically defrosted windscreen. Charging at home, I'll be able to supply it with 40A and will desire to do so when we're charging two EVs per night.

We returned our leased B yesterday, a couple of days early of the period end. We were not using the car any more for commuting, due to the unusually cold conditions, and another snow storm was forecasted to hit our area in the final days, so it was more convenient to return it a bit early. We...

Thanks for this, and I'll be watching for any updates, as our return is approaching. We did 10,000 of our miles on a separate set of wheels and tires, in part to improve the ride/grip, and in part to save the wear on the originals to stay safely below the minimums. We re-installed the original...

Congrats, Jeffray. I checked in here today expressly to see if you had made any mention of what you did at the end of your tenure with the 2014. You were a month or two ahead of us getting into ours, so naturally we're approaching that point now. We did not receive an offer in the mail akin to...

John - Presently the app store tells me that MyB is only installable on ios 10+ Would it lose functionality to have it work for older hardware not running 10? EVAccess has been great, and does run on the older stuff too.

mr250e - are you in the U.S. or elsewhere? I ask due to the mention of the 3 Phase charger... Around the N.E. U.S. I have consistently been able to get over 5kW out of most Chargepoint installations into our B-Class. Our maximum remote charge rate on a Chargepoint unit has been a sustained...

Your tires would be 3% smaller in diameter, which is an amount I wouldn't recommend using simply because there exists a used set of wheels with that size tire on them. You'd be 9mm closer to suspension & brakes at the rim, which might be pushing it. Check that yourself. You could use those...

Great, I'd love to hear your results. As far as hitting any other button, I'd say no. I'm not sure which button you mean, actually. If it's the range extension charge button, then no. Whatever it is, it isn't required in order to initiate the scheduled preconditioning feature.

It's different from setting the climate control remotely, yes. I suspect that this is one aspect of the difference in popular approach to internet security between here and the M-B product team "there." You set the preconditioning departure time via the steering wheel buttons. I'm going by...

Jeff - I have more helpful experience to offer regarding practical usage improvements for cold weather range than for regenerative braking. We're 150 miles north of you, and further from large bodies of water, and have probably used the car in colder weather and for longer average daily...

vin - It may function as you've described at higher speeds. At, say, 35mph or less, in D-, with no foot pedals being actuated at all, I don't see the gauge at it's maximum point. Touching the brake pedal (or romping on it) produces a larger reading on the gauge for me. Speaking of...

I use D- all the time and I enjoy the process of using the "throttle" pedal to modulate between coasting, light regenerative braking, stronger regenerative braking, and then touching the brake pedal (rarely) to get full regenerative braking. I find it difficult to sense when the brake pedal is...

We've gotten as little as an indicated under 45mi for a full charge when it was cold here. This is less than the daily commute that the car is meant to traverse for us. Setting the departure time seems more effective at conserving range in that type of cold than the more mild 40s that the OP...

By the way, jwarcd, the new shoes look good. I'm going to go with 215/55R17s myself in order to be able to use my new wheels on both the B and my older Audi with just a center cap and hub ring change. The stock B-class tire looks to be fairly pricey, so I'd prefer to spread the wear across...

Thanks jwarcd and camaroguy. There are a lot of sensors out there, and I'm sure this isn't hard to do. I wish I knew of a resource for MB parts like those I know for some other euro vehicles. For instance, if I had an i3, I'd just go here: hmm...let's see here, item 6? Then, I'd pop the part...

It doesn't sound like you had the Tire Rack install TPMS (tire pressure monitoring system) sensors during their assembly. Is that correct? Is it easy to live with the warnings from the system? I'm in the process now of putting together a winter wheel/tire package and I want to make sure that I...

I've just encountered this post on a Smart ED forum, which might be relevant for people now or in the future who are trying to get a working VVC for their B-Class Electric Drive: "Sorry you are still being stonewalled! This should not be so difficult but as I understand it, the original VVC...