Recent content by smokie

I was already looking at a service plan and have now signed up for three years but still the annual service at year 1 is more than double what is was 3 years ago, which was the point of my post.

What's going on? I had an MG5 pre facelift 71 reg from new and the first service was £44. The selling dealer has just mailed me to say my newer 74 reg MG5 LR is due its first service in Dec and it wil lbe over £300 (low mileage). My local ex MG dealer (still a service partner) was a bit over...

I'v enow recievd a reply from OHME. It says "Thank you for your email. "There may be certain compatibility differences or limitations when using Ohem. This functionality may be considered for future development. "Thank you once again for choosing MG. We look forward to continuing to serve...

Was his ins renewal reassuringly expensive?

So a couple of weeks ago I mailed iSmart support (customer care) and after a week got back a rather pointless reply saying thanks for getting in touch, they'd been monitoring my car which was OK now. So I followed up with a fairly detailed description of what I'm seeing and asking if they could...

Well if it were better I might have kept it but that's already done. I did report to them last week the stuff about it keep changing the target, though maybe that is OHME related - maybe they just don't play well together.

I have an old OHME charger which I like as it worked well with the Octopus Agile tariff. Then it stopped working, around the time I replaced he MG5 PFL with the MG5 FL. It would get a spinning wheel and not connect, or on the few occasions when it did connect it would appear to take my updated...

Braking heavily on it's own doesn't do the job very well at all as the "engine" regen is doing the braking up to a point rather than the actual brakes. You need to disengage the drive and brake to make it use the pads. EV brakes will often appear to not be very clean visually as they are used...

Oh, OK, thanks. It hadn't occurred to me that this might be the case, though I suspect not as it was always still at 80% when I went back in. As it's still showing 100% I'm not about to risk fiddling with it at the moment though!! :-)

Thanks, I'd previously cleared the cache but not the storage, to no effect. However I've sat for ages retrying this and after a million or more fails suddenly one worked - nothing had changed (except my mood!!). Unfortunately I'd become so mechanical I didn't really register whether it said...

Thanks for trying @Martinonline, at least I know it's not completely bust then. I pretty much do what you do, i.e. ensure a couple of updates of status etc before changing it. And you're right, even though I've only recently found it, it always took a few goes to make it stick. But I just can't...

Well I have MG5 in the UK (not MG4 in Oz!!) and I find I cant' change the %age either way from 80%. It was working ok a week or so back. I checked the iSmart version and it's 3.0.1 which I think is very recent (last 4 days or so) so that could be the cause.

Resurrecting this as I just seem to have got over problems with my old OHME charger which has highlighted another potential issue. The target charge figure in the app is "stuck" at 80%. Whatever I change it to in the (Android) app it goes away for a bit then comes back "Failed" - no reason...

If you're on Octopus, and dependent on your mileage (and other factors e.g. whether you have solar or batteries, general household electricity usage/patterns etc etc ) you might want to revisit your tariff. Tracker seems generally quite good, varies daily and is usually around 20 - 22p a unit...

I have OHME at home so I don't change anything in the app but that's worth remembering (and recording here, for others to find!)