Recent content by Sparky2

Thanks Salty. We used to call these rogue cars 'Friday Afternoon Specials' when they were hand-built in proper car factories in the UK. MG cars were special but not all of them were good cars. Skill levels in UK car plants were extremely variable which led to notorious reliability issues for...

Try telling that to MG Motors Ltd Customer Services or their Local MG Dealer (as I have done). These dangerous cars should be taken off the road until the manufacturer can fix the software to return the car's controls to the driver. Trying to make a car safer to be driven by blind and...

We have now owned our 2022 MG4 Trophy LR for three months and we can honestly say that it is far and away the most dangerous vehicle we have had the misfortune to drive. The journey home from the dealer in Oldham where we purchased the car was bad enough as we did not know how to disable the...

Thank you for that interesting feedback. I am finding that MG Motors Ltd and their dealers have developed a conspiracy of silence on this matter. I have contacted MG Customer Services and my local MG Dealer several times about the dysfunctional software on this car but I am just stonewalled...

We have now owned our 2022 MG4 Trophy LR for three months and we can honestly say that it is far and away the most dangerous vehicle we have had the misfortune to drive. The journey home from the dealer in Oldham where we purchased the car was bad enough as we did not know how to disable the...

I'm sorry but I don't trust these cameras at all. They are great for reversing but why on earth do they fill the touchscreen with useless images every time you stop at a junction? Whatever happened to looking out of the windows if you want to see what is happening? Appropriate technology? NO It...

Thanks Ian. All attempts to unbind through the app failed. Ditto requests to the clueless Peugeot Dealer that sold us the car to contact the previous owner. I then contacted MG Customer Services who claim to have remotely unbound the car from the previous owner's app within 24 hours. In spite of...

I'm sorry but the software in these cars is fundamentally flawed in so many ways. Even after recalls and software updates, many of the systems do not work properly and the controls are not intuitive. That includes the sound system. I have a USB stick with 36 albums on it which used to play all...

Thank you for all those helpful hints but when I press the button on the steering wheel with steering wheel icon on it, nothing happens. Looking at the owner manual, it appears that there is no normal cruise control, only adaptive cruise control which follows the car in front. All I want to do...

And where might that be?

While we are on the subject of software, I have recently had the software upgraded on my MG4 at my local dealer (free) but I have no idea what version they installed and I have no receipt. It took around 90 minutes in the workshop. When I tried to bind my phone to the car using the MG Smart app...

Well we have had the latest software upgrade installed on our MG4 Trophy LR and apart from much easier cancellation of the wretched lane assist and a new screen for the heating and ventilation, the software is still pants. It still cannot 'see' huge pairs of speed limit signs so it just flashes...

Just had a software upgrade at the MG Dealer and it failed to register two huge de-restriction signs on the exit from a 30 zone and it flashed 30 all the way to the next village. The dealer had washed the car so the cameras were all clean so the software is still pants. Not good enough at all

Thanks Pete, I will try that after the car's software update on 1 May

What a blinking faff. No such problems with both my BMWs. I stuck 35 albums on the USB stick and the cars immediately played all of them. Having said that, the infernal digital demons changed the order of the tracks to alphabetical instead of the order on the album. Why?