Recent content by Loada

You’ll be happy to hear that the voice speed warning can be turned off (permanently) in the sat nav settings. You can turn the auto beam off in the car settings (car icon).

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My other half is vertically challenged (5'1") and she noted this when we looked around the car before we bought it. I have the seat at its lowest setting and adjusted for me to reach the pedals how I like it (I"m 5'10" btw) - when she comes to drive, she simply raises the seat up to its highest...

It may be the car has been set to limit its max charge (to 65%) - in the main screen after you power on, swipe left and select the battery/charging - you can click the percentage bar and set the maximum limit e.g. to 100%. The iSmart app also lets you set it - drag down on the main app screen...

I saw a red S5 (75 plate) in Tenterden on Monday morning - I'm really surprised we don't see more, the S5 does seem to be passed over in any mid-range family EV discussion, especially in the usual EV YouTube outlets who are obsessed with the Skoda EVs at the moment.

I turned it off in the settings - it's a novel idea but it's just not very good. To be fair, in most new cars that have it, it's not great.

I think that the S5's threshold for deciding that the DAB signal is too weak is a bit too aggressive and it will often fall back to FM when it probably could stay with DAB - it doesn't seem very tolerant of a low DAB signal. Saying that, it seems very reluctant to then switch back to DAB when...

I've seen this - the main in-built satnav showing one direction e.g. left and the corresponding driver display view showing the wrong direction. I tend to use CarPlay/Apple maps now (which sadly doesn't sync up with the driver display).

I had the same experience - it's just too sluggish/dumb to be practical. Another sort of related thing is that the manual high-beam (like you'd do to "thank" someone) seems slow, it doesn't feel like you can do a quick flash, despite me moving the stalk quickly, it gives the other car a good...

Mine was delivered with 43+ (!) and it was quite a harsh ride on your typical pothole-ridden UK road - I've since dropped it to the recommended 37 and the ride is noticeably much better, unsurprisingly.

You can't save the regen setting - the car defaults to "1" (low) on every startup. In other threads, some MG4 owners report that it's remembered for them so perhaps MG will issue a software update to allow it on the MGS5? MG Pilot Custom saves by long-pressing the icon in the top-right of the...

I saw a blue one parked in Brodsworth House and Gardens car park a couple of weekends ago. Oh, and an identical one to mine parked in my local Sainsbury’s in my “spot” (a specific slot furthest away from the store I always park in), in an otherwise empty car park, very odd - I wondered if the...

You can press the right stick on the steering wheel - this toggles sound on/off.

The car stays on until you lock it - you can force power off by dragging down the touchscreen from the top (like you would a phone) and you get a set of “quick” buttons, one of which is power off. Another handy one on there is tailgate open/close. The car will reset to low regen on each start -...

You get a MG Type2 -> Type2 charging cable only AFAIK - no granny charger anymore.