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Have you tried cleaning the connectors, both the charging cable and the vehicle connector? I have experienced difficulties from time to time in getting the vehicle to charge and this has always been solved by cleaning the connectors; a bit of decent contact cleaner and a couple of cotton buds...

To be fair I have to do other things most of the time so I don't get in here that often.

Actually they did answer the question, with pictures...

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…