Recent content by mrgilbe1

The scary thing about a bound vehicle is that there's someone out there who can locate and unlock your car anytime they want. It's definitely something a dealer should take more seriously about sorting out before sale!

I'd assume not as well. How the whole binding thing behaves, it seems to be cloud based rather than an attribute of the car itself. It also would be insecure if so because anyone with physical access to the car could perform a factory reset and then a bind. I fruitlessly tried force-unbind...

SUCCESS! At last and with a lot of badgering the dealer got my car unbound. No notification on my infotainment unit but suddenly I could bind my phone and all is well. While I’ve been trying this, I’ve found the following ways to get your car unbound, I thought I should do a summary post...

If you have even something minor like a blown head gasket in an ICE car after 10 years when it's out of warranty, chances are the work on the engine would be more than the car is worth. Probably similar chances of both things occurring.

Three weeks later with an ex-Demo MG ZS and I'm having no joy unbinding. MG Customer support never came back to me. The dealer I bought it off makes the right noises but hasn't achieved anything at all. "Force Unbind" every 4 days or so does nothing - does that mean the unknown "previous...

That's good to know - I'll wait until I see a "this car is unbound" message before I try again. Yep I got that message saying the previous owner would be texted and emailed. It's been about 5 days now but other posts suggested that if I try to unbind again it resets the 72h counter! I've also...

I'm not sure if it's a new thing, but the iSmart app now has a 'force unbind' option ... that doesn't appear to do anything. I've been trying it for four days now and nothing. Anyone had a better experience than me? My car is an ex demo, so someone somewhere in its history decided to try out the...