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Today, as soon as I got in the car without turning anything on I noticed a strong cabin odour of what can best be described as fishy rubber (tyre air) Vesta curry. The smell wasn't present prior to this morning and was last used three days ago. I checked the spare wheel well and footwells as...

Whenever I look on the MG website or printed literature the number 8 is always upside down. Why? Is it to do with the Chinese luck with 8, lost in translation, or a copyright feature?

Coming to end of 4 year PCP in Dec so not much point as we're undecided as to keeping it or not.

I've been quoted £320 for a 60k miles (4th year) service on pre-facelift '71 MG5 Exclusive LR. What have others paid or quoted please? Edit: second price is £312

Since lowering the cabin temp to 16c I regularly get over 4miles/kWh when 0c. Lastnight 0c, 24 miles journey I got over 4 but the weird bit is that my wife had set cabin at 20c unbeknown to me. Even got 4.5 at around 4c on 24 mile trip. I've been doing this since early Feb. The downside is a...

We've had our 5 LR for 3 years now and just got used to the drop in efficiency during winter and usually get 3 miles/kWh when around 4c or below and the heater at around 23c. I always thought the heater was rather efficient until recently. As an experiment I set the heater to low and now I...

Fine, but I'm not convinced it's the correct jack as described in the manual. The jack and wheel were purchased from the MG dealer so I suspect it's just a common jack one gets from any motorist retail outlet. The jack is the same as any I've had with all cars I've had.

Electric vehicles tend to be a fair bit heavier than petrol/diesel equivalents due to the batteries. Check this article. My MG5 came supplied with tyres that were not extra load rated. When it came to replacing fronts tyre garage mentioned that they should have been rated as extra load. It...

Through trial and error I tried it on that lip between the notches and it worked. I've no idea what the domed head of the jack is nor the corresponding recess. The space saver wheel and jack came with car ('71 LR Exclusive) from new. Also check the tyre pressure of the space saver tyre; mine...

I bought an MG space saver wheel with jack from MG but I cannot see where the jack fits. The manual on page 232 says "Note that the domed head of the jack must fit into the corresponding recess in the sill plate (There is a triangle indicator ...)". The jack has no doomed head and I cannot see...

Only just seen your reply. Inside tyre wear on rear tyres after about 30k miles. The infotainment system reboots occasionally. Washer pipe to rear window that runs up front right A pillar detached. Huge depreciation from new! We've had a ridiculous number of tyre punctures that we've not...

71 LR Exclusive from new. We do about 15k a year, down from 20k initially so now at 40k. It's worked for us only because we do local miles and have a home charger (Ohme Pro) with Octopus Intelligent tariff. We've saved about £3k+ on fuel through home charging. If we relied on public chargers...

My rear tyres lasted 35k miles. I had a rear puncture only to discover that both rears had worn smooth insides. Tyre fitter said that rear wheels are fixed and can not be adjusted. The tyres were original from new as Cooper Xeons. On checking these they are not available in Europe but only on...

I stopped using mine the moment I heard a jet of water from what appeared to be the dash. In that case nothing was obvious. I booked in at MG for next month but decided to have a go. Another attempt at using the washer I heard the splash but was now definitely from A-pillar and got a few drips...