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    Petition MG about Driver Settings

    We've had our MG4 Trophy now for over a year, and the LKA issue is really annoying! If they can't turn it off by law (and BTW, if that law is EU, then it may not apply to the UK any more) but I think the answer is for MG to FIX the LKA feature. We all turn it off because their implementation of...
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    XPower Real World Range - owners feedback

    Having a high performance car doesn't necessarily mean you lead-foot it everywhere. My wife loves her MG4 and drives it very sensibly, getting very good consumption figures. But when she needs to overtake safely, or pull out of a junction quickly, the power is there. I find the same with my...
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    what's the lowest % battery you've gone to on a trip ?

    I only ever got down to 15% on the ZS EV. We have an MG4 now (my wife's car), which of course has vehicle to load capability, and actually it will deliver 7.2kw with the right cable. I was going to make up a car-to-car 7.2kw cable so my wife could come and rescue me if I ever conked out close to...
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    LKA permanently off button

    I wouldn't want to disable emergency braking and parking sensors, so it's not a solution for me :-( - great investigation, though - thanks a lot for publicising the feature. We do need to keep up the pressure on MG, though...
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    MG4 software update one pedal driving

    My understanding of car retail economics is that the higher the value of the second hand stock, the more demand you can generate for new cars. This may sound counter-intuitive but as most new cars are PCP and leases, higher residual values make for more attractive new contract deals. So surely...
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    Does the MG4 come with a heat pump?

    I've owned two Kia e-Niro cars; one was a "4" and the other a "4+". Their power trains, arodynamics, battery, throttle profile etc. were identical, with the ONLY difference affecting range being that the 4+ had a heat pump, whereas the 4 was simple PTC heater. I swapped them over in November...
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    One pedal driving survey

    A thoughtful response. My answer re. longer braking reaction times is based on my own experience, which is that my ingrained reflex to flick my foot to the brake if something potentially hazardous happens in front of me, is unaffected, and it SHORTENS braking time, as the car has already begun...
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    One pedal driving survey

    This is a very interesting thread. I'm intregued as to how many of those who voted "no" have actually used OPD? We've had 5 electric cars between my wife and I over the last 4 years, and test driven several more. I test drove the MG4 X-Power before getting my current car, and the one pedal...
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    One pedal driving survey

    Perhaps so they can try it out as an option - you never know; they may find out how useful it is in preserving range, improving brake wear and promoting relaxed driving! :)
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    One pedal driving survey

    I don't agree with that at all, frankly. There are always reasons to use friction brakes during an average journey, even when using OPD - when decellerating faster than the regen will do, for sudden car-in-front braking, etc. So the friction brakes always get a bit of exercise; enough to keep...
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    DIY V2L cable

    I, too, use Pis around the house (phone system, ad blocker, etc) and I've made simple low voltage UPSs for them. A simple arrangement with 3 x 3A diodes and a resistor is all you need, along with a 15v psu (many 12v psus run at 15v, and there are a lot of old laptop PSUs on ebay which give a...
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    Charging on ohme/octopus

    Interesting!! - did not know that!
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    Charging on ohme/octopus

    To answer your question, I've started setting the charge time limit on the car, just in case the Ohme charger crashes and defaults to "always on" mode - it's done that a couple of times in the very hot weather we had in june (ours is mounted on a south-facing wall, in full sun, so it does get...
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    MG4 X-Power waiting area

    Can anyone confirm whether the X-Power is 4-wheel drive? I was told by my dealer last year that the "performance model" would be 4wd, but I've not seen it mentioned since, and one early youtube reviewer said RWD. What's the definitive?
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    Charging on ohme/octopus

    We've had Ohme, Octopus and MG now for 3 1/2 years. We started off doing lots of maths as per above posts. However we very soon ended up with the simple "charge as full as you can during cheap rate". With Octopus Intellegent, we have 6hrs of cheap rate overnight, which is enough to put more than...
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