How the heck do you guys keep the plastic ISOFIX/child-seat anchor caps on??
They just come off all-the-time!!

So, my used BMW Mini S hit it's 10th anniversary since driving it off the CarMax lot. In that time I've put maybe 25K miles on it. Had literally zero issues since CarMax preps it's cars well. Fun car.

But it's now at 63K miles, due for all the 60K maintence stuff it likely needs and I'm a bit nervous about how it's gonna hold up over the next 5 years. Now in my mid-seventies I'm looking at maybe 5-7 years of driving due to neuritis which is supposed to leave my legs numb. Sorry TMI, but I gotta plan for my car future.

I have a second actual sports car, so the next car will likely not see more than 2K miles a year for those 7. Single, living in a commercial/residential area with all grocery stores within 3-4 miles. A replacement car won't leave the parking deck but once or twice a week for short trips in the big city deep south.

Scanning CarMax and they show a few 2016 era i3's with 70k miles or so and a price I can certainly live with. The primary requirement is that it be trouble free the next 7 years. Being 10 years old, I imagine it will be on it's 2nd AC? and CarMax will likely have spotted any brake and steering issues?

So bottom line, considering my low mileage short distance use case would a 10 year old CarMax i3 be a bad idea? Mind is made up on CarMax so any nay-sayers can hold off there. Any and every thoughts welcome and much appreciated. Thx.

EDIT - Welp - no one has made a negative case so far, thanks for the replies!

.... are the devil's playground. I got a little bored and decided to do a little modification. 2015 Rex with HK, but the bottom end was still lacking. Found a 6.5" sub that fit nicely under the rear seat. Just needed to cut the styrofoam that holds the park assist module and re-secure it. Very easy to do and it's all tucked away under the seat. No loss of trunk space, no exposed wires. It won't win any bass competitions, but it definitely fills the lower frequencies nicely.

I recently dug out my old iPad mini, and found a treasure trove of old i3 apps! The first one is called "BMW i", and it seems to be a digital brochure. It includes info and photos of the i3/i8, complete with 360 interiors and a crude customizer! The second app is "BMW i3 360°". It's has a bizarre short film called "Become Electric", with the plot following you and another character saving the world via floating energy orb (they must've been high while making this".

I also found a links to some press releases for the apps, including screen grabs of the i3 website in 2013!!!:

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/united-kingdom/article/detail/T0145692EN_GB/star-in-your-own-hollywood-style-action-movie-with-the-bmw-i3?language=en_GB

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0144257EN/bmw-i3-launch-campaign?language=en

I'll attach some photos as well to show the apps. They aren't available for downloading anymore, so if I can get around to it, I'll see if I can save/archive them so they don't become lost media. Let me know if anyone is interested in more screenshots, I just grabbed the ones I found the "coolest". I'm hoping I'll be able to pull the film as well.

Hope this was interesting to anyone other than me!

This "warning" now appears on the driver's screen, after a dealer visit for a factory recall service. Anyone have any idea what/why it is? https://imgur.com/a/PmsTVYc

Hello so i bought my Rex 5 months ago and everything’s been great so far. Has 120k miles and Ac is working great(no noise). Should I change out the ac compressor to a new/remanufactured one? Do you think for a 12 year old car it has been changed already? I want to avoid the whole metal shavings”Black Death”