Recent content by hmadsen

It is very easy to test if the onboard 12V battery charger, actually charges the battery. Measure the voltage on the battery with the car off. 12.6 volt is fully charged and anything below 12V is pretty much a depleted battery. After than, put the car into READY mode and measure the voltage on...

I had that text also in our first MG. First one text saying something to the effect of "Your car with VIN XXX has been involved in an accident" 1 second later "The airbags in your car with VIN XXX has been deployed". If it says the airbags has been deployed, my first though is....They...

Then software that needs updating as far as i was told is the one in the charger. Remember, this is a modern car, it has a small "computer" with its own software for each module. Brake module, camera, infotainment, airbag, charger, climate control, etc. So the version of the infotainment is...

ACC wont engage under a certain speed as far as i remember

Just checking. Does this only occur at home or also when you park it somewhere else. Just to rule out, something else, jamming the signals where you live. ? To be honest, the TPMS system is only a receiving system, the only transmitters are inside the tyres and those are battery powered, if...

Redownloaded the map update file, extracted it and put it on another USB drive of the same make and model and the car now updated the maps without issue. Tried comparing and both drives contained the same amount of bytes and the same number of files so very very odd. But as said...Now i have...

Will retry with EXFat, last time NTFS worked fine, but i will give it a try then :)

If i copy the maps folder to the root of the thumbdrive i get MD5 verification error, i have had this problem with previous updates, as has many others, but if you delete 2 files it usually works, but not this time. Last time it was file_verification and vn.txt, this time there is no vn.txt...

Downloaded the files and put them on a freshly NTFS formatted thumb drive and deleted the 2 files "File_Verification" and "versions.txt" but this time i still get the pesky MD5 hash error. I have done the 2022 to 2023 update but this time it does not want to do it, it seems. Will probably have...

My wife called me the other day, dash was lit up like a pinball machine. Told her to just drive it whereever she needed to go and leave it. When she returned 1 hour later, the dashboard was still lit up, but after driving for 2 minutes they all cleared. She tried the "hold down house button...

They should at least have given him a free of charge courtesy car until they can get it fixed, not his fault they dont have anyone qualified for a week.

What can you say....This car is Chinese, the app works just about as well as the app for my chinese solar inverter. This is clearly a summertime app.....Sometime it works, sometime it doesn't. I have mine connected to Home Assistant as well so i see when it wont connect and that's alarmingly...

Did they tell you what the traction battery heater was for then ? To be honest, that statement is a complete lie on their part, the ONLY reason to heat the traction battery is to improve the charging "speed".

Best setting for getting the cabin heated up on a cold day is usually. 1. Do not set it to ECO, the ECO setting will limit how much power the heating element will be allowed to consume. 2. Start the cabin heating 10 minutes before leaving, this way the car has a chance of heating up a bit...

2 things 1. Maybe rules are different in the UK, here it is not legal as the car was not approved to use LED bulbs, if the police stops you, they will fine you and you will be asked to do a MOT and the same, if the MOT station sees these, they will also fail you. 2. The big question regarding...