Recent content by AlC

My best guess is the pressure switch in your driver's seat is activating after you've left. Maybe it's slightly faulty and triggers again moments after someone has been sitting in it. If that was happening and you had just exited the car with the keys in your pocket, it wouldn't find the keys...

The car normally only checks for the key when it detects someone sitting in the driver's seat. I wonder if the pressure switch in your seat is activating even when you're not in it. Is there anything on your seat? Do you ever get the error after unlocking the car or only at the end of a trip?

On the subject of the health of the 51 LFP battery, something that keeps me awake at night when I've run out of other things to worry about is when I should charge my infrequently driven car to 100%. I know you're supposed to regularly charge the LFP to 100% to prevent BMS drift, and I know...

I'd be making a fuss about getting a different vehicle personally (as in a different MG4 from the dealers stock). The fault happened on the day you took delivery. If the fault had happened while it was still on the forecourt it'd be reasonable for you to walk away from it and ask for a...

That's a tidy tow bar installation. What's the energy situation at your new place? Will you still have solar and battery?

The manual does suggest you can use the EBP to stop the car in an emergency. I've read the same. It won't engage while moving if you pull on the switch briefly, but if you hold the switch up it's supposed to.

I wouldn't buy an MG4 again, not because I'm unhappy with mine but because there are so many more options now and buying the same car twice would be boring. In Australia at least, we are spoilt for choice with no import tariffs on vehicles and so many different Chinese manufacturers testing...

My previous car (Toyota Corolla hybrid) used blended braking, so a light application of the brake pedal would increase the regen without using the friction brakes. If it detected any wheel slip while doing this (e.g. if a wheel went over a manhole cover in the wet) it'd immediately ditch the...

...in which case the 51's SOH should level off (or stop dropping so precipitously) at 82% SoH right?

No need to apologise, this is good info and makes more sense after the context of the additional posts. So, your assertion is that the "actual" capacity of the LFP battery in the 51 is 41.6kWh, but the BMS has been programmed to expect 51kWh and is slowly adjusting downward over time to meet...

It'd be interesting to know the dates as well as the milage on that graph for those SOH readings, as I think calendar degradation plays a big part. Somewhat alarming that the downward trend doesn't seemed to have plateaued after a little over 2 years.

I also don't think there's ever going to be quite the same imperative to shutdown 4G as there was with 3G. 4G and 5G networks can coexist and share the same frequency ranges in a way that 3G could not. From what I've read 4G will be hanging around for at least 10 years, which is probably...

Yes, my excite 51 has the GPS location (find my car) feature in the app. So definitely the same GPS hardware on board as the Essence models, just no onboard maps. Which is fine for me, I prefer Android auto.

I think it's quite normal for the LFP batteries SOH to drop off fairly quickly in the first year and then then level off after that. I've read the initial drop off is calendar based and programmed into the BMS because it's an expected characteristic of the LFP chemistry. The other part of it is...

The prices of the bidirectional chargers have definitely poured water on my excitement a bit. I'm curious though about the technical implementation details of V2G via the DC pins. Presumably any EV should be hardware capable as it seems like all you need to do is close the contactors that are...