Recent content by Kevin Smith

For balance: I have recently had to use the MG gunk on 3 year old MG4 with its original. continentals. I could see a nail in the tyre and as per instructions left this in situ. The gunk worked and the tyre had settled at 2.2 bar after the 10 miles recommended to distribute the gunk. It drove the...

Did I miss any mention of the car's weight? I think this is where some of the improved mpkWh is coming from. The lighter battery (42vs 49kWh) means also lighter motor 110 vs 125kW so it's a win win cycle!

WLTP is an international comparator assessed at 25 degrees C. It's done with a combined cycle so there will be some very slow driving with no aero issues and I expect they use no heater or air con, ECO mode and max regeneration and have just one driver no passengers and little luggage so you...

I spot more than one every day. Oops, that's because we have 2 in the household!

“The stored energy is held in batteries in DC form.” this is not true. The energy stored in the battery is chemical energy. DC only exists when there is a flow of energy. Think battery like a lake no current, cables like river have current.

There are 4 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics and the words that come from the mouths of car dealers...

I just had a year 1 price from the dealer £75 more than the MG plan price (£189 vs £114). They also confirmed the MG plan you can use any dealer including them and they have a separate specific plan themselves which they have just quotes at £452 for years 2&3 services (not the year 3 MOT)!

If you compare to real new prices of old MG4 here the urban is dearer - until they start knocking 30% off. New old MG4 EV SE £17,500 odd offers all the time somewhere for the last 18 months.

I also need to approach the dealer with driver side button not working - clearly a defect in workmanship or materials IMO.

Only MG4s charge here? His & Hers!

It would be a simple process for the army to make safe all MG4s - our telematics box broke and the car carried on regardless but the app couldn't see it and the clock didn't update so drifted wildly! Simply remove T-box or insert switch to manually disconnect / reconnect or just disconnect it!

I think servers for MG Europe are in France - just say this because if the car can't be located properly then the app thinks it is in Paris!

We run 2 cars but as both MG4 no dilemma. Occasionally we granny one while the other is on Zappi overnight if we've really exhausted the batteries! Other times we might grab some solar iwht one and overnight the other but mostly we do fine with alternating and still don't need to charge every...

None of which encourages me to switch from buying what I can afford outright (and keeping it until it is too old for my economic maintenance) to any of the modern methods of buying on the never never as my folks would have called it 40+ years ago! That ejector set was initially fitted to Mrs...

Never mind avoiding the dealership in future - name and shame and report them to trading standards as well as writing to that BBC show- watchdog! These sharks need reigning in.