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Both of them are getting replaced under warranty, which is good given it is a design issue.

Just let it do its thing, might see a kWh in 'consumer use' over a full battery but I'll take the comfort. Remote climate is a great quality of life improvement, also use it in winter to defrost the car so I can just get in and go. Ideal battery temperature is around 25 degrees C for optimal...

I'll have a look this morning - its SWI168, does feel a bit 'retro' compared to R59 in my older car, nothing I can really put my finger on specifically.

Gets some sun and some shade as it's parked on the drive. I've had the condensation thing a little but parking the car in UK weather conditions shouldn't result in cracked light clusters when it less than 2 years old! Goes in this week to get them changed.

Balloon payment on my existing 22 plate Trophy was coming up so opted to top a little bit for a newer Trophy to reset the mileage etc. Delivered today and as somewhat expected the infotainment and, I suspect, other software updates have not been applied. Back to R40 instead of R59 on my...

Got an answer back from the dealers it went up to MG and they've agreed to a warranty repair replacement as of last Tuesday. Annoyingly a bloody Tesco's van rear ended the car on the previous Saturday and despite a very broken bumper, boot and light bar it hasn't touched the light clusters. MG...

Mine's a 23 plate - sent images to the dealer today and see what they say. It's definitely stress cracking and looks like it's propagating from the bond of the inner and outer sections to me.

Thanks for all the responses - really tempted to replace it as it's not a huge amount over the balloon PCP payment that was already due. That gets me a brand new car, with some extra features plus removal of the various 'niggles' that are on the one I do have (odd stone chips, that rear light...

The type of plastic they've selected for the outer, transparent section is very brittle, gives good clarity and fairly scratch resistant as the trade off. Lot of these cars are probably on company car or lease schemes and many folks don't wash their cars opting for the car wash services that...

Coming up towards the end of the 2 year PCP bubble on an early trophy. Was planning on just buying the car and have the funds to do so but the GFV is already a loss leader by about £3k. But dealer has some pre-registered stock up for the GFV plus a other £4k - that gets me a car with delivery...

Suspect they will keep cracking over time and the origin point does look like it starts where the plastic is joined to the rear housing for the cluster. Could be condensation freezing a little and stressing the assembly - wouldn't be at all surprised if others were like this but folks haven't...

Got exactly the same issue that I've just spotted today when washing it - both sides, all internal cracks on a car that's 1 year and 10 months old. No doubt they will argue it's impact damage which is utter rubbish. Cracks all propagating from an edge, edge is very difficult to hit with the...

Wouldn't work using the old method as get an error, currently trying to download using the VIN verification portal as on R59. It's taking a long time - currently half way through and its been running for nearly 12 hours, 17.6GB file and only coming down at 300kB/s which is terrible.

I told my dealer the bluetooth on my phone kept dropping and it was annoying constantly having to reconnect it - mumbled something along this lines of a Audi could do this no issues nearly 20 years ago. They updated mine to the newer style of head unit interface (R59) with no questions off the...

Just to clarify weighing of liquids - it's a more precise method than by volume as volume varies depending on both temperature and the liquids reaction to temperature changes. As A/C fluids are designed to change state from liquid to gas to enable the cooling effect it will be pretty severe in...