Recent content by DixieTGS

Is this the same problem discussed here: Thread 'OPD, car rolls backwards when stopping on downhill slopes (merged thread)' OPD, car rolls backwards when stopping on downhill slopes (merged thread) There is a good video of it at post 20. After a recent software update in the UK (SC077 ?)...

I failed to find the post with a product link that I was looking for, but across all the MG models many people mention using USB hubs. One such post linked to https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09MRYH52V/ref=twister_B0BLZ79QQF?_encoding=UTF8&th=1 Personally I don't like the idea of physically...

Anything that is an 'active' device. It needs to receive USB messages from the car and then send them on to the phone. In effect you now have 2 short USB cable runs from the car to the phone, instead of the one long one (one cable from car to dashboard, connector, cable from dashboard to car...

Try a little USB powered hub, sometimes called a USB splitter. The short tail on it that plugs in to the car, is in fact better than your 10cm cable as it is hard wired at one end. You can then have a longer cable from the hub to the phone. This has worked for several people.

The number of house holds is from National records of Scotland 2023, and the energy usage from Ofgem. But it may be quite reasonable to define both of those in a very different way in the context of the video's subject. Your point about uniformity could be be very significant if the figures...

Going from the number of homes they said it could power, I thought you could get a very rough estimate of the energy it can hold to see which unit they meant: Typical UK annual household electricity use = 2700 kWh Household use in 12 hours = 3.7kWh Number of households in Scotland = 2.5 million...

All public chargers of 50kW or above should now offer contactless according to the regs, but not all operators fully comply yet (e.g. some Tesla) so I wouldn't rely on it. Zapmap shows the one I mentioned as contactless now, so your only problem should be finding them within the carpark as the...

I use OPD all the time and it's consistent on the LR too.

At the Lake District parks authority offices on the outskirts of Kendal, there's a few 52 kW public chargers for 50p/kWh. They worked fine last summer with an electroverse card (no signal to download an app). The Electroverse app claims they haven't been used for a month so I'd have a backup...

The above suggests that some software glitch happened recently, regardless of whether there is a CCU fault or not. Adding a bit of detail to a point made by @Martinonline , the charge limit showing in the in car settings may show 100%, but internally it may be different e.g 30 or 50%. Setting a...

Looks like the speed awareness course guy was wrong. I wonder where he got his information from 🤔.

The distance part of the rule has gone. It's now whenever street lights are present. Edit. Incorrect information. See post by @johnb80 below. The other thing I picked up when I was given the same 'opportunity' as @tsedge, is that on the road centre lines, if the paint is longer than the gap a...

This video is worth a watch if you're considering other methods. Post in thread 'Puncture.' Puncture. Although I don't expect to use them if I get a puncture, I carry a tyre string kit and a few tyre screws now just in case.

It's not quite as comprehensive as getting out and locking, but switching off via the infotainment and back on with brake will work with some problems too.

It looks like the satnav is using it's database to tell the difference between a single carriageway and dual carriageway. Presumably the drivers display software doesn't have access to that information, and so is no better than the SE models. With a camera only, if you're on an empty dual...