Recent content by WigglePig

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.

Well, I’m sort of at ease. I absolutely cannot see how they could get the oil drained and replaced without disturbing anything around the fill and drain plugs and without getting any oil at all on the parts under the drain. Perhaps I shall book at Apple MG to have them look at the oil again...

On road-trip charging and having done plenty of this since I got my 5 in 2021, I would say that charging infrastructure has improved enormously in the past couple of years. Have a pre-think about routes and use an app like ZapMap to have a look around and see where chargers are located before...

Provided you are using tyres of the appropriate aspect ratio then there should be no change to the circumference/rolling size and therefore no change to the speedo reading.

Interestingly, after my year 4 service on Monday the car is a lot quieter and seems to be getting 5+ miles/kWh reasonably consistently. The gauge cluster seems to look very slightly different but I can't put my finger on what it is. Additionally, power delivery and KERS seem to have changed...