Recent content by WigglePig

Afternoon all. Is there anyone around in here who has reasonable knowledge of the 12V system on the MG5? What I am looking to do is to possibly use a smart relay to charge a second 12V battery to run some "other equipment" when the vehicle may be shut down. Thanks in advance Piggly

Full self-driving version I take it? ;-)

I have been using Hankook Ventus Prime 4 and they have been excellent, miles better than the OE!

They are bl00xed and I have no intention of paying £92 each for a pair of bare rear shocks from the MG dealer when they really aren't especially good. Mine started clonking at less than two years age but <dealer> refused warranty claim as they weren't (apparently) leaking.

I don't particularly want to lower my 5 but what I would like is to find some decent aftermarket shock absorbers, especially for the rear.

I have done the trip from SE London to Aberystwyth loads of times. The chargers available in Aberystwyth are pretty good for a small town; there are a couple of locations with 50kW+ DC chargers (Morrisons, Tesco and the University, behind the security building and canteen, the National Library...

I got my 5 down to zero and flashing last week! Not a happy experience.

Is it clean water? If it's not coolant then around that location it is almost certainly either urine from the trapped wildlife (probably a badger) or airconditioning condensate.

It's not the capacity I'm concerned about, it's whether the DC-DC converter will adjust itself for the admittedly small volt-drop the switching unit introduces, should I choose to use a diode unit.

Morning all! So, for a number of reasons I would like to add a second 12V battery to my MG5 and wondered if anyone has done this already. My main question is whether the installation of a diode/MOSFET charge splitting unit (with associated voltage drop) would drive the 12V DC-DC converter to...

Don't even ask why earwigs are called earwigs... ;-)

Don’t worry about them crawling over you as they do it all the time and you’d never know. Probably a hundred or so every night… What’s more of a problem is the smaller ones that go up your nose or in your ears. Just saying…

So, cheese and ham or cheese and pickle? 🤪

Indeed.

What we need is for someone to find a nice empty bit of hill and trigger the vehicle into doing this but without stopping it while it is happening.