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Surely, you just turn off the car...or am I missing something here?

Luis, glad you like your car. I have one to. Just one point you may like concerning Waze. It does actually cater for EV's. Go to settings & switch your vehicle to an EV. You can tell Waze to show charging stations etc etc. It's pretty good. I tend to use it. I'm a motorcyclist also & Waze is...

Oh & by the way, the Mk2 MG ZS EV is way ahead of the Kia E-Niro, although slightly less efficient. The MG still gives better range overall. MG more comfortable & better inside too.

You are right Martin. But I think as you say it's all semantics but to be clear equalisation & balancing are pretty much the same thing. It's only the terminology that's different. You seek to "equalise" the voltage levels of each individual cell. Or, you seek to "balance" the voltage of each...

To be honest Martin, I don't think we need an MG authority on this as we already have one called 'The manual'. It's very clear on how to do a full & proper equalisation & calibration. It's simple & needs doing. Everything else we have all been chatting about is fairly incidental stuff. But very...

Good luck. Should be fixed good & proper!

Yes, I see battery discussions are all over the forum. Seems to be quite some confusion in some quarters, especially about battery equalisation. I think this forum is doing a pretty good job of helping to point folks in the right direction.

Ok that explains it. I'm on my phone doing this most of the time in my workshop. Thanks everyone.

Siteguru, where does it say in his profile he has an MG4. I don't see that. It just says he has a MK1 Trophy.

Hello Martin, yes I'm sorry. It is of course the General Chat Forum & not the dedicated ZS forum. My bad. I did actually assume you had the MG4 with the LFP battery pack. Many long range MG's with LFP's have adjustable battery health levels on the infotainment screen, like the MG5. I didn't...

Yes, it's perfectly doable yourself if you are a fairly handy person....if you see what I mean! 🤣 If the scratch is fairly deep you can use something called a 'body stopper'. This fills in deeper scratches making touching in much easier. Personally, I'd watch some YouTube videos on how to...

Thanks very much Martin for coming back. Unfortunately your profile doesn't show what car you have, just trim level, so I assumed you were a ZS owner as it's the ZS part of the forum. You are certainly right, no one is precluded from this thread about batteries. The more the merrier. I do...

The difference maybe cars from the US use different metals but they also surprisingly don't work to the same safety standards as the EU on these type of things. I suspect the cars from the US going into the EU may have OAT in them as a condition of being able to comply with EU rules. But as we...

Yes that's quite standard contract wording for these plans Fred. Note it mentions the cancellation fee of £37.50. It then goes on to mention 'management fee'. That's the killer!

Can I ask what battery you have. NMC or LFP? Is your Trophy the ZS short range or long? Is it the MK2 facelift model? I believe from your description you have a short range LFP model. If that's the case & you are slow charging most of the time then some amount of balancing of the battery will...