Content by TimothyN in December, 2025

Are you sure? It seems to me that it won't (AC) charge unless locked. Have I misinterpreted?

I've only just looked at this thread. I was thinking that someone was bewailing the absence of a 5 speed gearbox.

Not that I use it, but my charger also has a timer on it, so, I guess, if you want a totally foolproof checklist, you need to check that the charger is going to be willing to pump out the electrons throughout your charging period. But, as I say, mine is set to 24/7; I rely on the car to suck...

My sparky is going to run some tests, but thinks that he can use the existing wiring to the 13a plug in the garage to put in a 32a Commando, as the circuit is 32a to start with, which will make the whole thing much cheaper...

All my white goods are quiet/distant enough to sleep through. I find that if I set the washing machine to run at midnight, I can rely on my bladder to tell me when it's time to move clothes to the drier. One small advantage of advancing years.

Are you asking whether anyone has looked in the bottom RH corner of the cluster as it happens? In which case the answer is no. If you mean "what level of regen does OPD offer?", then the answer is, I believe, the same as L3. There are a couple of vids above, but here is another, done for...

It deffo needn't be an emergency stop. If I had to define it, I'd say "sufficient for a shopping bag on a seat to distribute two or three items on the floor." I'm not sure that's an ISO definition, but we know what I mean, right? And it happens when you (instinctively) take your foot of the...

I feel your pain. I bought an Audi A6 in 2012 when all this technology was brand new. It worked gloriously well. It is so, so much worse 13 years later. This is most true of ACC going from radar to camera. It doesn't work in poor vis, and is not good on unlit roads, it does emergency stops...

To be fair, the speed at which it goes backwards is not going to dent a bumper. It could knock over a child who then bangs its head, though.

I guess that the truthful answer is because the hassle of making up that wire (USB-C to concentric) is greater than the hassle of it not working. But my original question remains. The dashcam did not behave like this when installed in the Audi, so it seems to me more likely that the 12v supply...

I, for one, am conscious of the fault and will stop the car before it kills anyone. I am more fearful for the people pushing buggies behind someone who is not aware.

The triumph of hope over experience.😂

I have it happen on a very regular basis. I still forget between times. DVSA have told us they don't care. I guess we just wait for a fatality or two...

Sorry, I missed this. Thinkware F770. Manufactured 09/18

That's an interesting bit of semantics. I would say that you are using the settings exclusively to disable things, no? Where's Bertrand Russell when you need him? 🤣

My father was so excited to get an A40. He could drive it up the (not particularly steep) hill outside our house in a forward gear, unlike the reverse he had had to use in the previous car (some kind of immediate post war Fiat.)

I power "big ticket" items. Mostly the 3kW oil radiator I use to heat the conservatory I use as an office, which has no CH radiator, but also the oven, the washing machine, tumble drier and dishwasher (if I am going to use them by day, I mostly time them to run at night.) Obviously, I only use...

So, even on an "EV only" tariff, you can still charge the car, then discharge it during the day to run your appliances?

I have long advocated (and put my own money where my mouth was) also keeping ICE cars topped up, on the grounds that there are regular huge surges in demand (whether because of supply problems, tanker driver strikes, whatever) resulting in ridiculous queues at the petrol stations, which...

How is that enforced? As I have reported widely already, I use the V2L function to store nighttime leccy and use it during the day, such that very little of my usage is on the daytime rate; so even if they magically turned off my ring main at night and they really policed my tumble drier usage...

I don't understand the logic at all, why not just plug it in once a week instead of once a fortnight? The unit rate is going to be the same whatever the rate of charge. The £1000+ you spend on a charger would buy 14,000+ kWh of leccy. But you've clearly thought it through, so you do you!

Have you thought of saving the money on the 7kW charger and charging more often on a 3kW charger costing £90? (Warning: This discussion arises on many threads!)

That does remind me of the old joke "…but apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?" Yes, I agree that if you put aside such mundane considerations as cost and practicalities, it is always the best choice! 🤣

In terms of the cost benefit and practicalities of the granny charger (as opposed to safety issues), it comes down to a question of the use case. As several people (including myself) have said, granny charging will only give you 30% in the low cost period of the night (which, in my case, is...

Thank you. At what speed did you drive?

I have had the car for six months and, except on the day I took delivery, before Amazon delivered the granny charger, I have never used any other form of charge and it has never been a hassle.

It is 12V, not 5V, sadly.

If you need 30% or less per day, then that is much more true of a granny charger

Meh, the deal is done.

I'm not fik, I understand, but is it really a thing? I guess it's a balance of risk...

I find the A8 quite strange, as my A6 you turned them on by putting the adjustment switch in the middle...

My usual diatribe in favour of granny… If you don't use your car an enormous amount (I really only use mine to go from Biggin Hill to Bromley and Morden), you are unlikely to use more than 30% of the capacity, and granny will give you 30% per night. I have my granny charger set to 13A, and the...

I'm sure that most people already know this, but did you know that Michelin star restaurants and the Michelin guides only exist because Michelin wanted to increase car journeys, and hence tyre wear!

If anyone works for Michelin, it's ChatGPT 😊

Sorry, more than I remember, but nonetheless... https://amzn.eu/d/3QYPe1L

You can use a granny charger with little or no installation and very low cost (~£30). You get 30% at low rates overnight.

Bear in mind that the cost of highest speed charging at a pubic charger is 12x as much as home charging. Worth thinking about.

Most annoying sh!t can be turned off, you'll soon learn. MGPilot is your friend. Long press to save your settings. 13% of 64kWh is 8.32kWh, 25/8.32 is 3 miles per kWh, which is reasonable in the cold.

Oh, all right then. Sigh If you’re comparing like-for-like (same size, load/speed rating), the CrossClimate 3’s main gains over the CrossClimate 2 are: Better wet grip / shorter wet braking: Michelin’s own claim is ~4% shorter wet braking vs CrossClimate 2, helped by the tread’s V-shaped...

I say again, "whatever that means" 🤣

Michelin. Apparently they have just been upgraded from something 2 to something 3, whatever that means.

Just in case anyone cares, or wants closure, I have ordered four Cross Seasons, and they are going to give me a few quid back on the three survivors.

Well, I wouldn't say 5% is nowhere... But clearly a design decision has been taken.

I was quite surprised this morning to find that OPD wasn't working. I have a long drive today, so, unusually, I set it to recharge to 100%. However, the length of my cheap leccy overnight meant that it only got up to 97%. I can understand why OPD doesn't work at 100%. I'm quite surprised that...

Two different things. Using Apple CarPlay there is no map, instructions or speed limit on the cluster, nor intended to be (which is a shame.) What @mcderd is saying is that one of the optional panels in the cluster is supposed to show (limited) navigation instructions from the inbuilt satnav...

I have a cut in the sidewall of one of my factory fit tyres, it is no longer legal. I would like to change them all for all-seasons when they wear out, so it seems a bit silly to replace this one, at 4000 miles, with a summer tyre. bit it also seems a bit silly to replace them all at 4000...

Sorry I meant to reply with a laugh not a "useful", but my finger missed

I have disabled auto speed recognition and set the speed limiter manually. Works fine.

Do you know what CDO is? It's OCD but with the letters in the right order.

I have investigated this on my drive this morning. It's actually "Comfort" that switches off OPD. Even if Custom has OPD set to on, once it is switched off by Comfort, no other mode switches it on again.

I have failed to make that work.

Unless someone has found something different, mine always starts in Normal, I use a steering wheel button to change it to Sport, but I then have to leave it, so as not to go through Custom and lose OPD.

It's not quite permanent. It disappears if you go through Custom mode, which you do if you cycle through the modes from Sport to Normal. PITA.

I'm afraid I consider life too short for both those options. It's only a sodding car!! And anyway, the grandchildren have put muddy shoes all over the backs of the front seats, so I may have to get rid of it anyway 🤣

JAAMOI, is it since the iOS 26 upgrade? I have a similar experience and am suspecting that...

It doesn't have a screen. The only way I know whether it's working is a little LED which is either solid (meaning it is working and knows its GPS position and therefore speed) or flashing (meaning that it records video, but not speed.) If the LED doesn't light up at all, it means that it is...

You'll be delighted to know that I got my first major dose of this just now. I was forced into the hedge by a stupidly fast white van driver. My new car now looks like a battered old wreck, so I don't need to worry any more.

I had my dashcam professionally fitted, so please don't ask any questions about which line or fuse it's attached to. If I get into the car in a normal scenario (first thing in the morning, for example) it just starts, and it just works. But if I switch the car off, go into a shop, do a little...

In the Audi it was always on if the door mirror switch was in the middle between left movement and right movement. I had no idea the rear demist switched them on, thank you, I will try that in future.

...careful what you wish for. I've just gone from iOS18 to iOS26 and literally everything is worse.

Indeed, but the more pieces of Swiss cheese the better.

This morning's fog reminded me why radar is so much better than cameras!

No doubt, after the children are killed, there will be an inquiry and "lessons will be learned"…

OK, I think you've given me the best way out (in the absence of any other answers!) I have configured a steering wheel button to driving mode, but I know that I must only press it once, from Normal to Sport. That is the transition I want in a hurry (if I see an opportunity for a rapid...

I'm sorry you've broken your duck, I suppose that must really suck, I'll take a punt, and guess the affront, Must feel like the end of your luck?

Reply from DVSA: ...so at least we have documentation for use after a child in a buggy dies.

Do you mean on the steering wheel? If so, do you ever go back to Normal, and if so, can you do so without losing OPD?

There is a bewildering array of choice on Amazon. Any particular recommendation?

The following questions are all concerning the same scenario: I am using Waze (or it could equally be Google or Apple Maps) on CarPlay. I want to switch to Sport mode while continuing to use Waze, quickly and with minimum button presses. Q1: Is there any way to configuring Sport mode on all...

Forgive me, I may be talking bollix, because I have only read this in the manual, but isn't there a relatively straightforward way to jump start with a dead battery? pp283 and 284 of the manual? Presumably you can also trickle charge the battery? Or have I missed the point again?

I bought mine completely sight unseen, having never driven one and not even knowing what it looked like. I had intended to buy an MG4, but the deal on the MGS5 was so compelling that I just bought it on the phone. I had paid a deposit within 12 minutes of picking up the phone. And despite...

I thought it was changed to 230v to harmonise with the EU, which was raised from 220 to 230?

I tried Sygic. It's a slightly different model to Waze, Apple and Google, in that the maps are downloaded rather than real time, so maybe more comparable to TomTom than to the "big three." I get the impression that it's at its best if you are limited in your ability to get data (for example...