Recent content by Mannakin

Good info, I'll make sure it's on Eco++ tonight and try again. I'm usually charging after 23:00, so hopefully the heat issue is not something i should have to worry about although the Zappi is in full sunlight in the afternoon. I do have solar but normally use any excess to heat the hot tub :)

I had the car set-up to charge (Octopus and Zappi) on Saturday night and it didn't start at all. I tried again Sunday evening but after some manual messing about it would only charge at 1.5 kW. I'll go and try Fast charging manually. Update The car does charge at the full 7 kW - but it took a...

It's just 50kW on the northbound, 2 gridserve. There are Tesla chargers on the southbound side, but they aren't open for non-tesla cars

I'm doing Hove to Kirkcaldy on Wednesday. I have the extended range model. Planning on a stop at Banbury Tesla chargers, then Trentham Tesla and finally Tebay. We have dogs and my bladder is no longer young, hence the 3 stops!

MG4 has three levels - i find max a bit much but level 2 is good

Not had a problem with LKA myself. Occasionally it will twitch the steering wheel and/or beep at me but nothing to warrant me switching it off. That's a mixture of country/town/motorway driving. If you're not using your indicator at the correct time then you may get a reminder!

MG on the drive for me, the motorbike lives in my garage!

I just prefer having the more powerful charger with a tethered cable and the Zappi allows me to optionally charge via the solar I have (that is if I ever see the sun again!)

Why not use Octopus Intelligent Go? You don't have to worry about the car not being recognised by Octopus if you install a recognised charger. I have the MG4 Extended range with the Zappi charger and it works good for me. Just plug the car in and that's it - it charges to my set voltage (80%)...

Octopus know from your car spec - what your battery size is

Octopus may charge outside the quoted times if there is excess electricity available on the grid? Similar to the surge proving you get on the fast chargers. As long as the percentage is correct at my destination time, I don't worry about exactly how it happens

One thing to note is that there is an option in the security settings to use biometric to log on. So I can open the app with a fingerprint now!

To get the radio to "start" I usually just press the volume up once on the rhd joystick

We also use a hammock/liner in the back seats for our two dogs. Secure their harnesses to the normal seatbelt plugs

I've just had my right rear warning go off. Definitely down to the ambient temperatures I'm sure. Interestingly my tyres were all just over 30 psi, got it that way from the garage a couple of months ago and confess that I never checked myself. All at 36 psi now. Hopefully my miles per kWh might...