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In New Zealand I have had 2 annual services so far. Cost ~$200 NZ dollars ~100 pounds so about the same. The fact that I got a really good car valet service with it made it easier to bear. BTW I have now done 17,000 km in the ZS EV and the battery capacity is at 97.6 % which is not too bad. My...

Is the X power the plug in hybrid version? If so it explains why the Main NZ dealer, that I bought my ZS EV from is offering $3,000 NZ discount. I had originally thought that it might be due to the fact that EV's and Plug in hybrids are having to pay an extra road tax in April. The EV is around...

Well my 2022 MG ZS EV got backed into a few months back by a Nissan patrol 4WD. I was literally stopped about 16 metres directly behind him as he was driving a bit erratically. He backed straight into me, jamming the passenger door and bonnet and damaging some of the plastic front trim. His tow...

That sounds like a problem with the inverter sensing which load it is feeding. After all the problem is quite trivial. If there is excess power over consumption in the house and the car battery needs charging, then the excess is fed to that. Once the car is fully charged that circuit is disabled...

I have a World Solar 5 kW system on my roof here about 50 km North of Auckland NZ (lat 36° S). This way works for me. I got the 5 kW inverter programmed to charge the car first with any surplus power. Then the spare power is fed back to the grid, should be a simple matter to feed power to the...

I have a grid connected 5 kW solar system in NZ and was easily able to get an installer to arrange the software on my inverter to preferentially charge my car before feeding back power into the grid. I have a 7 kW max circuit set up for this and have had NO problems at all. Admittedly here in NZ...

This is rather interesting I wonder if DAB broadcasts are incompatible with the software in some way. Here in Auckland NZ we have an odd situation. DAB was tried for about 2 years, but had such a low take up and problems due to our hilly terrain that it was discontinued. Just that I had noticed...

OK So I live in a place (Auckland NZ) where it doesn't snow, but we can get temperatures down to -4 degrees C in winter with a Southerly wind. My heat pump has run for 17 years and has a properly measured efficiency of about 34% in other words 3kW heat (or 2.8 kW cooling) per kW of electricity...

Ok guys! I have a 2022 ZS EV and want to download an update for the already out of date data for Australia and New Zealand (they usually come together). No joy yet from the local agents, Ant suggestions?

That is a good idea profdraper I will check the time zone. 2 hours later is Eastern seaboard Australia time and quite likely! The Google map sync cannot be operational in my car because I recently went to my Vintage radio society AGM in the car and on the way it insisted that the speed limit...

One annoying problem with my ZS EV is the out of date data on my navigation system. It has been back for its first year checkout, but this was not addressed and I cannot get any sense from the local agents. Also has anyone had any problems with the clock? Mine suddenly went back two hours and...

Well my Zs EV is 15 months old and had done over 12,000km. My charging routine is 1. Using solar energy from my 5kW roof when sun shines (about 90% of the energy I use) 2. Using the home charger supplied with the car to balance cells and top up in dull weather 3. There are reasons why 80%...

Mine failed at one year and created a whole lot of error messages. We have a free return to dealer system in NZ for 7 years and they got it going for me. However the new unit they ordered only took 3 weeks to come from the Chinese Empire so that is pretty fast. It was installed in a hour or so...

What I did for my ZS EV was to put the supplied charger out for cell balancing charges and install a 7 Kw charger outlet programmed to feed excess power from my 5 Kw solar roof panels to the car before feeding it back to the grid. OK, so I live in Northern New Zealand at 36 South, but over the...

I guess that I am very lucky here in NZ. What I did was to install a 5 KW solar roof, BEFORE getting an electric car. In the meantime it could save me money on power and charge my mobility scooter and electric bike. The Solar installation cost about $10,000 NZ and the high power charger system...

Bad news all. I have run into unexpected problems with my ZS EV just yesterday. It was due to go in for its 1 year check over next week too. Was going out to pick up my wife when I began to get a whole succession of error messages. First hill descending dropped out, then the collision avoidance...

Thanks a lot for the cruise control tip. I will be using the cruise a lot more now!! Yes, metallic objects would really mess up microwave radar especially at the high frequencies used these days.

That's very reassuring. I have noticed that the cruise control is very "light footed" and keeps the speed down on corners etc. That is good because i live in a small country town in NZ and have 80 kM/Hr limits on parts of all the roughly 30 k each way journeys to local shopping areas. That makes...

Thanks for confirming that! Yes they must work together in some way so a microwave image and a visual image are compared in the computer to get a pretty foolproof front view. I have rarely driven my ZS at night so haven't checked out the auto high beam yet. But it is good to know that it does...

I must stand corrected. It certainly could be the radar, but at many GHz it would behave quite like a camera electronically. However MG seem to be making a lot of modifications as they go on the ZS. Just here we have two locations for the front camera. However my message definitely said that...