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How big is the usable battery?

Even TB must admit you have done well for a 'useless student'...

Lovely looking car  & a great colour.( same as wifes Toyota)

Road test in Autocar magazine last Wednesday, so still in the shops for sale.

They gave it 4 stars,  and said it went like shit of a shovel.

Nice car in a great colour. ......looks very similar to the I-Pace in Italian racing red, or 'firenze' as they like to call it these days.

Superb colour too.
But then I do like shiny things!

 

Sounds like a very capable motor, Mark. I wouldn't say £450 a month is cheap, but for what you're getting it's certainly good value. Enjoy 👍

So my new company car arrived just before Christmas, it's a 2025 i4 M60. I get this via Lex Leasing and it was to cheap to ignore really.

I added just a couple of options of an upgraded sound system, tow bar and active cruise control. (BMW love extras)

Headline Stats:

- 601bhp
- Dual Motor

I've already done over 1,000 miles in it. My thoughts?

- It's fast, it's ****ing fast, did I mention it's fast?
- Any speed any time, instant torque that all EV's give.
- Not lost a traffic light drag yet.
- It's very, very comfortable. It comes with adaptive ride (air) and it's 18's alloys with decent amount of side wall mean a very, very smooth ride.
- Super silent around town as you would expect.
- It's excellent at the outside lane cruise, very quiet and smooth.
- Active cruise is great, even comes to a stop and goes again without any involvement from me. Makes for relaxing busy motorway sections.
- Pre-conditioning is something I like way more than I thought I would, coming out to a toasty warm car every morning at 7am is nice.
- Unlike other EV's the touch screen madness is limited, still has traditional iDrive, with buttons etc.
- Easy to disable stupid EU rules, speed limit warning, active warnings/steering intervention etc is very easy to disable. Either 1 button or 1 click in a shortcut.
- I added a towbar, so I can use a rear mount bike rack, makes it easier for hauling bikes. It's electric as well and folds away at the press of a button.
- It's a 3 year lease, so nothing to worry about. Tyres, maintenance, insurance, service etc all included. 
- I've only charged it once away from home, mainly to test the discount from BMW. But worked without any issues.

For me it's incredibly cheap, both in fuel (£0.07 kWh) and the cost of the car itself (£450/m) - Costs me around 65p to get to work now.

Your English is good

My TD never suffered this issue, but I know it was a reasonably common thing for others.  I'm not sure anyone really truly got to bottom of it, with there potentially being multiple causes.

Depending on age, the glow plugs might be enabled even when warm starting, though I don't think the DDE 2.0 and DDE 2.1 ones do.

I would see if you can prove it's the in-tank fuel pump not priming that is the issue, or that it's actually working - the TD engined ones had a high failure rate, but the main injection pump is more than strong enough to compensate most of the time. If you can prove that fixes it, then your idea sounds like a viable solution.

Hope that makes sense.

Sorry for the late reply.
Because of work I didn't made tests yet.
The glow plugs are new and when cold it starts right away.
I don't know about the part if you can force the glow plugs on even when hot.
Probably this weekend I will conduct some tests, warming up the car and forcing the pump to prime. If it starts right away the problem is found. In the meantime, since i need the car because it's my daily,  I found a injection pump kinda cheap and talked to a specialist to repair it. But I'm still searching for new injectors also including the 4th cylinder one. To repair in conjunction with the pump.

If Burnham got back in the Commons, Starmer would be toast by the end of the year.
Although he still might be anyway.
Its a good thing Imo, because Burnham is more presentable and not robotic like Starmer, but he would be just as useless if he became PM.
I would imagine that after this reminder for the country as to why Labour shouldnt be allowed into Govt. they will be out of power for a generation again.

We can only hope.

If Burnham got back in the Commons, Starmer would be toast by the end of the year.
Although he still might be anyway.
Its a good thing Imo, because Burnham is more presentable and not robotic like Starmer, but he would be just as useless if he became PM.
I would imagine that after this reminder for the country as to why Labour shouldnt be allowed into Govt. they will be out of power for a generation again.

I'm not surprised one bit.