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Which still reads higher if the battery is more charged and drops with load... Also it's the overall 12V system voltage afaik. not specifically the DC-DC output voltage.

Seems a bit low, My 12V battery is getting as low as that, used to be around 14.5 and 13.9 (depending if headlights are on) I suspect it's on it's way out and needs changing. Particularly as when I drove it shortly after charging the HV battery overnight it was at around 14.5v yet drove it...

On the prefacelift mg5 it can be a bit tricky not to charge to full each time to be fair. Depends what control you have from the EVSE side as there's none from the car side. I can "Usually" do it via home assistant but sometimes the session does drop/reset and I still end up charging to 100%...

Maybe, I think there have been cases of batteries showing an ok resting voltage but completely collapsing when any load is placed on them.

Remember to be sure to press the foot brake when you press the start/on button or it won't close the contractors and you'll get that message. The other times I've had that have been if something upsets the car whilst trying to charge at which point you either have to leave the car 10mins or so...

Elevation and the number of hills would presumably also have something to do with it as well as weather, not sure if's my use of the heater or if the 5 really doesn't like temps below about 10c

Now I use Carplay and a pre facelift MG5 so things may behave differently for you I've had a carlinkit mini (v3 so carplay only), 2 android AI boxes (Force car into carplay then boot full andorid) and a generic Carplay/AA dongle. It's the latter Carplay/AA dongle that's been the most...

Mine usually clears after a few meters if that (I've had to pull the 12v off a couple of times when it got into a sulk after a disagreement with a public charger/EVSE)

Check the cable going into the bottom of the rear seat belt buckle/receptacle things it's not a very robust connector so it's rather easy for it to become dislodged or if you are unlucky damaged/ripped out entirely.

Gridserve app was showing 2KW (it was one of theirs)

It might have been, but that still should have been 3KW not 2KW.

Assuming the fast actually is... I stopped off at a motorway service area few weeks back to get some lunch, I didn't really need to charge yet but would at some point on the way back so I figured I'd give the A/C charger a try and at least get a little bit of charge. Useless thing was only...

I've only ever seen the higher charging speeds if the starting SOC has been rather low, I don't think I've ever seen above 50KW if I've been above 20% or so when I started the charging session. Stupid part is if it does hit 70KW+ it will often stay that fast up-to quite a high SOC. More of the...

My Prefacelift 5 usually behaves itself with the IONITY chargers, although I think i've only used it with taller narrower ones with the vertical screen orientation (The ones with the halo around the top), I think they do have a different design in some places (although i'm not sure if the UK has...

Under the plastic cover, on my pre-facelift there's a smaller panel that comes off separately to save you from having to remove the entire plastic cover. I think that standard on the long range versions not sure if it was on the early short range cars.