Recent content by hmadsen

Soo.. On a facebook group for MG ZS EV owners there is a guy that is very adament that if he takes his leased MG ZS EV to a 22KW AC capable destination charger and plugs in his car, which has a 3 phase charger, he gets 22KW. I call bullcrap, but he is very persistent. So simple question...

Yeah i agree, its crazy paying extra for satnav, just to have to pay £100 a year for updates. I would still update the satnav even though we dont use it, i also have an offline satnav on my phone from back when it cost a lot to do dataroaming abroad. I like options

Well that's not THAT expensive. Did you clear the error codes for the airbag yourself, on other cars i have owned, you need some sort of programmer to erase the codes. As airbags are safety devices, the codes would not self-clear, atleast on those cars i owned previously, hence the need to be...

Is that the same for both first and second gen MG ZS EV. The first gen, their website says to go to naviextra's webpage, but the second gen is a download link on their own website. The latest files for the second gen is called Q32023, which seems pretty outdated Judging from a folder name in...

We have had Thule evo bars, the ones that are shaped more like a wing, compared to a previous type that was just square box and the sound was noticeably less. I even had the EVO bars for the first ZS EV we owned, they had a dedicated kit for the roof bars ours had and it worked fine. Nowadays...

I'm guessing the first thing to do, with regards to the steering wheel coming off is "Disconnect the 12V battery" to not trip the airbag computer into logging an error because the steering wheel airbag was disconnected. I would be interested in hearing how much you paid, ours does not have any...

Well nowadays there are small ECU's everywhere. For example most new cars with matrix headlamps have a microcontroller in each headlamp. But there are individual small microcontrollers in a lot of modules....Power steering, climate control, instrument cluster, infotainment, ABS/ESP brakes...

Yip, if you wanted to know if anything was updated you would need a dongle and eZS program to read out the firmware versions. From memory there are atleast 20 different modules with their own firmware, so if they did an update on, say the onboard charger firmware, you would not be able to see...

Thing is. The car has been sold with 2 different flavors of charger. In the UK they were sold with 1 phase charger onboard, so if you have one of those you can get as many 3 phase chargers as you want you will never go above 1 phase 32A (7KW) In Europe there were an option for a 3 phase...

Well there is nuance and this is very relevant when dealing with chinese manufacturers. They say "5 years of free map updates"...... BUT...They never said anything about update frequency, so technically, even if they never release another update that is newer than the current latest 2023 they...

Yeah when we ordered our ZS EV i was told it would take a day because they would have to have their computer hooked up to the car to update every electronic module in the car, including the navigation maps. When i got it, it offcourse had 2022 maps that i had to update to the latest 2023 maps...

Yeah i dont think it will be able to notify you, but yes, it is a great feature, our other EV does this and its quite nice, especially at fastchargers as they finish a lot quicker.

Just to reply, i have entered my VIN more than once to see if the Q3 2023 maps were updated, but in the last few days i have also gotten the "No result found" and i even tried copy pasting it and finding a VIN of another ZS EV with the same result. I think that the site is either down or they...

Will it even be able to do complex stuff like "Can you please find a CCS charger in 100 miles from my current position, along the shown route" Would be nice to be able to not have to wait until you are low on power, before discovering you just passed the last CCS your car will be able to reach...

My only confusion is.....Why they made the alarm work this way ;)