You want to work at MG and explain this to them? I said the same thing if theres no issues whys it being recovered, why is the AA not able to fix it if theres no issue but the garage does? Honestly its a joke, sure the metro will love hearing this
This is pure guess work here on my part, but my gut feeling is that the diag machine that the A.A. is using, is not capable of delving deep enough into the software to locate the problem.
The dealer diag computer
naturally, is better equipped to diag MG faults.
Clearing the code to mobilise the car suggests to me that there is not a direct fault on any of the modules, because the fault code would keep reappearing almost straight away.
Only when the car finds itself faced with the same condition, will it repeat the bricking condition.
If so this theory is correct, then the problem here is this.
The dealer can clear the code, to get the car running normally, but they don’t know WHY it is acting in this fashion, given certain conditions.
MG Tech needs as much uploaded information from different cars as it can get, only then they can they spot a common denominator that causes this problem.
This of course is of no use at all to any owner who is relying on rapid charger usage !.
Somehow I can’t help but feel that the facelift model is just WAY too sensitive when communicating with a rapid charger period.
They appear fine on a A/C unit ( thank goodness ) but have a bad intolerance towards D/C units for sure !.
This was not a problem on the original ZS EV model, so this maybe a good starting point to cross reference software protocols across both models ???.
Lucky for MG that they is not a big number of facelift models around at the moment.
Imagine what it would be like HAD all the promised cars all arrived !.
They would be looking at a huge recovery issue and a massive amount of unhappy owners banging on dealers doors.
Another concern I have here is this, they are now faced with a big charging problem issue.
So, now they have released a software update that does not have appeared to be successful.
So, it’s back to the draining board.
It was a little like this on the original model when the software became corrupted by a software bug.
Causing all sorts of power and reduced range problem etc.
Eventually it got resolved but resulted in some cars having huge software upgrades.
I am never keen on over writing and over writing software, by chasing a problem.
It all becomes more and more fragmented IMHO.
Cars today are more mobile computers than cars really.
Gone are the days when cars get fixed with spanner’s anymore, it’s all software based.
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