Content by Kenp1 in January, 2026

If you put the money in a savings account you would be £70 up as you wouldn't be paying the admin fee, and earn a bit of interest. When I had a Kia I had the service plan because it was a lot cheaper than pay as you go, but with the MG the dealer charged me £153 for the second service, the...

Good Year Vectors and Michelin Crossclimate are great. I Wouldn't have summer tyres again after a very scary incident in the snow a few years back.

I got a quote and it didn't seem worth it, this was proved when my 2nd service cost less than the quote in the plan. The thing that really annoyed me was that on the breakdown page the elements don't match the total because of the admin fee, this isn't obvious because it isn't mentioned clearly.

Charged mine on the 4th, it was -5 when it started at 3 in the morning, and there was no issue.

I don't normally worry about wrapping it around neatly as it's on the side of the garage, just rewound it and the 10m looks pretty much the same as 7.5m. Octopus were also very good, I think they normally put the consumer unit outside next to the meter cupboard, but as mine backs onto the...

If the car isn't going in the garage I would have the charger on the outside, it is going to become very annoying having to go through that process every time.

The cable is quite stiff, so you won't get it any tighter to the sides of the charger whatever length of cable it is, that's what it will look like.

I went for the 10m cable on the Hypervolt and it doesn't look like a lot when wound round the charger. My normal parking position means the cable has to go across the front and down the side of the car, this means most of the 10m is used up. It is also worth remembering that a future car will...