2014 BMW i3 Service and Repair Manual

This factory service and repair manual for the 2014 BMW i3 covers a four-door hatchback offered in Base and Range Extender form, with two entries on its engine listing: a 0.6L two-cylinder, single overhead camshaft and naturally aspirated, and a battery-electric drive. That pairing shapes the whole book, because high-voltage work and combustion-engine work demand different precautions, different test equipment and different specifications, and the manual keeps each set of procedures with the system it actually belongs to.

Engines covered

• 0.6L I2 battery electric — SOHC, naturally aspirated
• Battery-electric drive (EV)

Body styles covered

• 4-door hatchback

Trims covered

• Base
• Range Extender

Known issues on the 2014 i3. Four recalls are on the federal record for this year. Three concern restraints: an unbelted smaller adult driver faces a raised risk of neck injury in a frontal crash; a passenger frontal air bag may not deploy correctly at low speed; and a wrongly assembled inflator can keep a bag from deploying. The fourth is a fire risk: the fuel tank vent line chafes against the battery positive cable's sleeve until vapor escapes. Nine of the 49 complaints concern the power train, eight the air bags and seven the steering — each covered here with its own diagnostic procedures and tightening figures.