Recent content by Rolfe

I'm pretty sure this is a bug rather than a deliberate decision. Maybe if enough people complained they'd do something about it. In the thread about sleeping in the MG4, after much complaining and fashioning of covers for the lights (we want to keep the HVAC going so turning the car right off...

Could you expand on that? I don't understand the question.

Less than 50%? Is that not a typo for 5%? What use is a car that won't handle motorway speeds as soon as it hits 50% charge? Mine is still as sharp as usual right down to 5%. I did notice it slightly less nippy than usual on a steep-ish hill at about 12% when the ambient temperature was very...

Well, hear me out here. I went to my neighbour, who is an engineer, and asked him if he was happy with his (year-old) PV installation, and with the guy who installed it. He said yes, and presented me with a couple of closely-typed pages about costs and time to recoup these. I said, in that case...

You know there are another six double chargers (and a single one I think) at Tebay on the northbound side, just a couple of minutes drive away?

I merely meant that after paying for all the electricity for the house and the car charging, I was nearly £355 ahead of the game due to the amount of solar I exported. Of course I had no electricity bills and no petrol bills. Life's too short to be calculating the whole caboodle, particularly...

I now have the figures for the first full year of operation with the export tariff. Over the 12 months from September 2024 to August 2025 I have made a profit of £354.64. Which I am busy spending on charging the car on road trips through the Electroverse card.

Over the longer term reports are that batteries are doing a lot better than anticipated, even if there has been a lot of DC charging. I reckon do the best you can, and don't worry about it.

My April 2023 model was reported as being at 93% (20,000 miles) at the last service, in May. I'm not actually noticing any difference in range at all.

I was actually finished at the dentist (for this round anyway - contrary to my expectation that wasn't the end, I have two more appointments to come, deep joy) about half past twelve and I could have made it, but it was such short notice I had some other things planned, and in any case it was...

They do behave differently. I think it's probably a good idea to do a long charge maybe every year though, regardless of the chemistry. I actually like the SE and could have been interested in an SE X-Power or ER!

I had a test drive in an X-Power with OPD and liked it, but I couldn't honestly tell you what was different. The salesman said the OPD was a harder regen setting than regen 3. I do like the creep through because you can use it to avoid coming to a complete stop at lights or in a queue when you...

No, you misunderstand. This is the MG4 forum. If your ZS does things differently that is merely an interesting observation. It has no bearing on how we manage our MG4s.

It was in 2016 and the boat was called the Marco Polo. We sailed from Leith.

Me, I'd use a small cotton shopping bag, put everything in that that I wanted in the glove box, and put the entire thing in the glove box. I keep the torch in the door pocket from rattling by wedging it with the rain poncho.