VERY WORRYING ALERT

JimD said:
Yes, and also the accelerator is too close to the footrest for me - once when I was using the parking brake auto assist thing in traffic I accidentally touched the accelerator with my foot while putting it on the footrest and the car lunged forwards. I haven't got spectacularly big feet either.
Click to expand...
Does yours have a footrest on the accelerator side, ours doesn't ?
 
Kithmo said:
Does yours have a footrest on the accelerator side, ours doesn't ?
Click to expand...
There is a shelf to the right of the accelerator on the Mk 1 ZSEV, which is carpeted. I don’t think it’s meant to be a footrest. I have fairly wide feet, so the right side of my right foot has a tendency to catch this when pushing down on the accelerator and I find I need to adjust position on the pedal to increase pressure and accelerate. When I release the pedal, I’m nearly always depressing the brake until the auto-brake kicks in, then I pull back my foot and don’t use the right hand ‘shelf’ to rest my foot.
 
Kithmo said:
Does yours have a footrest on the accelerator side, ours doesn't ?
Click to expand...
Well, maybe not a footrest as such, but it's a little shelf where your right foot naturally rests when you take it off the pedals.

EDIT: I'm a size 9, so not massive feet.
 
Headgas1 said:
It’s not all the time I might of phrased it wrong just it’s the fact of no engine noise I get distracted then forget to turn it off occasionally that’s all .
Click to expand...
Me too every now and then. Big clue is the steering wheel spinning when I use it to haul myself out. (Kia Soul, while I wait for my ZS.)
 
Wow some of you guys......... :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
Finding Bigfoot GIF by JcrOffroad
 
Les burrows said:
This morning I got a visit from my neighbour 3 doors away, he also has an MG5 SR like mine got it after seeing mine being delivered and looking at it on a Monday at the end of March 2021 next day went the dealers and collected a new red one on the Friday of same week.

So his car has now done 3000miles or just a little over, and yesterday he had been shopping and was parked up in a street in the town, on returning to his car got in it started the car went into ready mode so took his foot of the brake pedal and the car shot off at full belt with tyres smoking ran into the rear of a car parked a few yards in front, pushed that car into the one in front of that,and then bounced off into a building on the other side of the road.
Now I have been reading this and other forums about EV for a long time now but don’t recall anything like this happening before he said the whole thing was over and done with in less than 10 seconds and the car could well be a write off.
So my question is. Has anyone else ever experienced this happening in a MG5 or and other EV for that matter.? The car going off on its own at full power.
Les.
Click to expand...
Hi Les, no I haven't heard of this before. Will definitely need investigating to get to the cause and stop happening again. Pls keep us in the loop. Also congrats on the podcast. You guys do an awesome job! 👍
 
Well all my Neighbour got his MG5 back from the body shop on Christmas Eve after almost 5 months the problem was getting the body parts to do the repair so I asked him if anything had been found as to the cause off the accident and he said no nothing he asked has the car been took to a MG dealer to be checked out and he was told that because the traction battery had been disconnected and the 12 volt had been removed to repair the body work the memory in the car had been completely wiped so nothing could be checked because of this.
body shop have done a very nice job with it anyhow so we might never know what happened.
Les
 
Support us by becoming a Premium Member

Latest MG EVs video

New EVs from MG: MG S9 & MG9 plus hot topics from the forums
Published
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Back
Top Bottom