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Even relatively easy bodywork jobs cost huge amounts these days. My car, a new ZS EV had the roof & bonnet resprayed under warranty after discovering a paintwork problem. Cost was £4,200 plus car hire for 3 weeks. All paid for by MG, who were brilliant by the way. My car does have the Red...

Thanks for the info HantsRob. Have you used it with a diagnostic app such as Car scanner? Or some other app perhaps? Did it work ok?

In fact those prices for the MG3 look like the old prices that I was quoted nearly a year ago. They have according to my dealer gone up a tad with the most expensive service now costing £1,250. This is not unique to MG either. All of our neighbours now have plug in & full hybrid cars. All of...

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The only issue with doing that is that a full equalisation & balance needs to be uninterrupted & done from a low state of charge (below low battery warning) continuously up to 100% & then letting the BMS do it's thing to equalise. Again it was MG that said to me the charge must not be...

Yes, indeed it is very confusing as so many people disagree on how to do the equalisation charge. I will say that Octopus & MG did both tell me to turn off smart charging before doing an equalisation charge, my dealer to. As soon as I did my car started equalising correctly. It will now equalise...

Jto, I have the My energy Zappy.

Oh that's interesting. There may be instances where you are right. So it must depend on whether the car is in charge of the situation or the wall box. I have my wall box as the primary listed device with Octopus, not the car. At the time of wall box fitting Octopus said my car could not be the...

Not necessarily. But the only way to properly equalise the battery is to take the SOC down to the battery low SOC warning & preferably just under that to make sure all battery cells drop below the low SOC threshold. Otherwise a full equalisation may not happen. On my ZS EV this happens at around...

Ok, good work! You got your state of charge down to a decent level. BUT...did you turn off SMART CHARGING in the Octopus app? If you did not the car will not have equalised even though you might think it has. You say it has equalised but didn't mention anything about smart charging being off. So...

Chris, mine was updated to R27 from R25 free of charge. However, this was done under warranty due to some software issues that arose after some paintwork warranty work was carried out. Additionally, R27 allows a raft of other updates that you can get that currently your car cannot see. These are...

I would be inclined to tell them you get issues periodically with it. You are entitled to updates & you will find extra features after that's been done. You could be running R27 which gives you a lot of extra features & a more glitch free ownership as your car will see many more updates once you...

Ah yes. Although I didn't drive it after updating the tyre pressures I did move the car a few feet on my driveway. So just starting the car doesn't cause it to update the dash readings. It definitely must be driven!

Yes, you are quite right. It all depends on how well any given car has been previously updated. If the car is fully up to date then it's "simples" to add the Tesla software. If a car is missing certain other updates then those update will be required before the Tesla enhancement is installed...

Susanna, yes from what my dealer said it's just the 'Combined Charger Unit' that has the update applied. Tesla has supplied the software update to MG who then integrates it into the CCU. It's not that hard to do & is mostly automated but might require several steps to do. But then I've only...