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If it is not just for occasional use, I would look at fitting a permanently wired 12V socket in the back of the arm rest or other place of your choosing. 12V splitters are easy to dislodge accidentally. I would hope this would be a simple and relatively cheap job to get done professionally if...

The camera i have is different, but I did a similar thing to get the cable through the rubber tube from boot lid to car body more easily, see pictures in this post: Post in thread 'Reverse Camera SE LR' Reverse Camera SE LR The cut in the cable was up near the control box for easy access in...

If the 12V battery is being drained by non essential circuits and will shortly go flat anyway, why doesn't it turn off those non essential circuits when there's still just enough battery to unlock the car and start it I wonder?

Sorry, I misjudged your post to be surprised by the poor consumption in wind and rain, and assumed it was your first EV.

Your figures seem pretty typical to me. Unfortunately going electric makes no difference to the relative consumption when going with the wind vs against it. In my last ICE, a trip down the M4 and back yielded 46MPG one way, and 36MPG the other in a fresh breeze with all other conditions the...

I've not done any android programming, but have a vague memory that there are hundreds of permissions the programmer can request. To make it manageable for the user to enable and disable, they are put in to just a few groups such as phone, location, contacts etc. The BT permissions are lumped in...

In the app info my permissions are location, nearby devices, notifications and phone. Nearby devices sound like a good one to try. I suppose phone may be also be required to provide some sort of device ID, but may only be necessary if you want to use the phone MG assistance feature in the app.

For Android, the method to get to the Digital key pages is different depending on the theme in use: For the white theme, tap on the words Digital key above the words keyless start. For the 100 years theme, tap on the octagon containing a key fob and Bluetooth symbol. You should then be on a...

It's a long time since I did it, but I think the only instructions are on the app on the first time you try and use it. On the app version I used you only had to hold it near the centre of the steering wheel, but they may have changed it again by now.

Hmmm, did the SE SR ever support the Bluetooth key I wonder. My SE LR does, but the latest SE versions apparently don't have it according to the MG website. The Bluetooth key doesn't seem to need pairing (Bluetooth LE?). On Android iSmart, if the little Bluetooth symbol on the main page is...

If you could actually see the problem that matches the symptoms, it'll probably be good to go after your testing. I'm not sure if the possibility of PCB damage as well would still niggle away at me though, and I'd end up replacing it anyway. Do you have a Bluetooth key setup just in case?

I find the app is generally much more reliable these days. Although it may need a couple of refreshes or just waiting for 10 minutes now and then, I no longer need to unlock the car to get it responding again. However, it now frequently fails while AC charging and only sometimes recovers...

The SE doesn't have this option in car, presumably as it uses the same eSim as the wifi hot-spot. Instead you need a phone, either with the app or use the little MG assistance card that lives in the centre console to find the number.

There are a couple of other threads with details and pictures about this somewhere, one from @Bricktop X PWR I think. But from memory, the outer skin is normally released from the black cover when it is open by levering a tab on the lower part of the black cover out with a penknife or small...

I had almost exactly the same - having stopped at the T junction at the bottom of a hill the drive lamp didn't come on when selected. Having just managed to coast across the road to a slightly safer place I found the car would actually drive and it was just the lamp that didn't come on. A few...