Content by gdog in February, 2026

Im a little confused. is the first service not due 12 months after its first registration. Surely its not an earlier date? That not something i considered when i got first service

Sure it applies. There will be a few of these but in likely equal % for ICE or any other cars. Surely few would bother to SORN a car for a month or two? Maybe i'm just wasteful minded :-) I didn't include Cyberster in this small survey?

The survey was only of 2022+ cars so posts #4 and #7 shouldn't factor much in SORN i thought.

Yes that;s what i was trying to get across. my data is based on cars 2022+ so SORN will have very few collectables, hobby, summer or show cars etc. cars in the mix, that are not driven. because of their young years i assumed that a large percentage of the SORNs here are being repaired to...

Just let it go. I have no beef with you and didn't mean any offence by debating.

Insurance co write them off. The worst are scrapped. Some as uneconomic to fix which may be bought and fixed up (SORNed)

heaven forbid someone should disagree with you. unforgivable. I didnt realise that you were referring to write off that are scrapped only. As far as i know, not all written off cars are scrapped, some are just deemed not economic to repair.

fair enough if your not interested.

what is the usefulness of this reply? @MG Clive clarified his position and i agreed. anyway i would argue that scrap numbers are extremely low given Between January 2023 and June 2025, only 3,250 electric vehicles were scrapped in the UK and i would imagine the majority of those are crashed...

but i only included 2022+ cars in comparison and BEVs had lower SORN % than ICE

yes that makes sense. maybe just SORNed at transition to being scrapped. but that would be the same for both ICE & BEV

i previously conceded that reliability was a poor choice or words. roadworthy is better

that not correct. in the UK written off cars must be SORNed. otherwise the owner at that time is liable for tax

Yeah I mean that is just nonsense. So 2022+ cars that are roadworthy will not be SORNed. Some may be SORNed during car sales maybe.

Written off cars will be SORNed unless the want to pay tax on it

You can see that the sample size isn't much greater tho.

I know it's difficult to draw comparison when looking at a fruit bowl. But the fruit is either eatable or not so maybe it's still relevant. I don't think there are more old people driving BEVs. So I don't think thats a factor. Thing is if they aren't drivable they would be SORNed. So why the...

I don't follow this logic. Pro rata they would surly be similar % SORN regardless of their numbers. Granted very small numbers may have freek swings. Interesting that there are 169k MG4s registered in UK and not SORNed since 2022. 100k model 3 and 163k Golfs.

I've heard similar stories. Mad if that is the way of it. But I've also heard that many modern card not just BEVs suffer the same due to lack of available spares.

Reliability is maybe the wrong word, true. Maybe repairable would be better word. I wonder why the ICE cars are double the BEVs SORN ratio? I'd assume write off ratio would be similar maybe higher for BEVs but the SORN ratio is half

good point i have amended figures to only cars registered on 2022 and after

interestingly SORN rate for Volkswagen golf is 0.52%, ford puma 0.46%, KIA sportage 0.53% (random ICE samples) some of the most popular ICE cars in UK MG4 at 0.25% not looking so bad (i have amended these figures to those registered from 2022)

yeah i get it. collectable/hobby cars may be SORNed. so i figure newish cars would only be SORN if written off or not economic to repair?

its hard to find any dependable data other than official dvla data. i assumed non-sorn means its still economic to be still driving and on the roads

Ive been doing some research on mg4 reliability, looking at DVLA SORN rates compared against the Tesla model 3 based on cars first registered on 2022 and later. [ Edit moderator: SORN stands for Statutory Off Road Notification, applying to the UK. ] MG4 has a SORN rate of 0.25% compared to...

ive been doing some research on mg4 reliability looking at DVLA SORN rates compared against the Tesla model 3 based on cars first registered on 2022 and later. MG4 has a SORN rate of 0.25% compared to 0.21% for Tesla. to me this confirms that the MG4 is almost as reliable as the Tesla model 3 or...

Yeah sorry about that. On reflection it looks a bit harsh. I didnt look to see his history, but note he still hasnt contributed to his own post. This is a pet hate of mine about forums, im afraid. If your going to post you should then contribute to the thread

another bullshit throw away comment. why post and then not respond?

what do you guys mean by between / \ and - - etc is there some setting of an adjustment to nozzel

I have the exact same issue for two years. MG cant resolve it, hence how i fount this chat. Ill try the manual setttings as that would do me (I guess/ we will see)