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Yes, exactly this. And, understandably, many dealers are deciding to just keep their heads down.

Just booked mine in for its second service and the dealer has had no notification of any software updates for my model (pre-facelift MG5, registered 22). It's disappointing, but about what I expected.

The main problem I had was putting my left foot on the brake while I was stopping at junctions (my subconscious felt my left foot had to do something!). You soon get used to it, and it's so easy to drive you'll wonder how you could ever enjoy driving a geared car again (at least that's how I...

Can Cleevely do software updates though?

IMO it's like house-buying. The only factor that matters is the cost to change when you trade up or down. Intrinsic 'market value' is just a meaningless number.

I'm guessing that the idea is that once the car's moving it could be dangerous if the power suddenly cut off because (say) the battery in the key fob chose that moment to go flat. Do you have a link to the article you saw?

Switch on the subtitles then go to the settings and choose auto-translate/English.

I reckon most people in Northumberland would have welcomed it. :D

Is this still happening to people? I haven't seen it mentioned recently. I've only DC charged my pre-facelift MG5 once, to test it out after I bought it, as I generally just charge at home,

That one alone is a gem. :)

To be honest, I haven't bothered applying for a time of day tariff. My battery's only 5 ish kwh and I don't do many miles in the car these days. Also my heating & hot water are all on gas and it's probably too late in life for us to invest in heat pumps etc.

Correct. I generally don't bother with it for that reason. However, in the summer I almost never need to charge the car from the mains anyway, and in winter I charge during the night, when the solar battery has usually been used up supplying the house.

I have a Solax inverter for my panels and you can set that so it won't use the battery during a set time window (you can set up to two time slots). That's the only way to stop it using the battery in my set up anyway, so maybe yours has a similar feature (though at best it counts as a work-around).

Different charging sockets between countries is still less radical than having the driving controls on the opposite side of the car. If the world can cope with right and left hand drives it can cope with more than one type of charging socket, especially since it's no more bother than using a...

My record low was 1.4 for a trip to the local shops. it included standing on the drive for the best part of 10 minutes with the heater & fan on full blast and the rear screen on while I scraped the ice off. It went up to about 1.8 by the time I drove back home again. (MG5 LR)

Allow me to butt in here: - Maybe you aren't quite familiar with forum etiquette. People try their best to help by answering questions from strangers. Sometimes they are a bit hasty and make a mistake. If you attack people who try to help you, people will just stop trying to help you.

The software status of the MG cars seems to be a closely guarded secret as far as I can make out. Even some dealers don't seem to know what's going on.

I have to say, it baffles me why anyone would want to own one of those. Ugly and impractical imo.

I've been getting very poor mileage lately (though I've not been resetting each month). I'm doing mainly short trips with the heating full on and rear screen on, and I've had journeys come in at less than 2m/kwh, and typically just under 3.

The official range of an MG5 long range is around 240 miles, so the current figure is correct. If you were seeing more than that at first, it was likely a fluke caused by a period of super-efficient driving prior to taking the reading. The 240 (ish) miles figure is what you should get if you...