If it helps I found that the fuse housing was extremely tight anyway, even for the fuse I was removing, which I think from memory was F1 for the 12v socket.
Putting the piggyback in required a fair amount of effort to push it all the way home, but it was definitely the right connector as shown...
Literally to cover the two holes desiged for Chinese shaped number plates 👍
See pic here, you could use the standard plastic number plate bolts:
https://www.mgevs.com/threads/my-solution-for-rear-number-plate-on-mg5.3686/post-85720
The bolts that are holding the black bar on are standard number plate bolts. You could remove the black bar and secure your plate that way?
Would only take you a minute to screw/unscrew?
The breakdown companies have specially designed wheels for this and also use wobble bolts (as far as I'm aware from talking to our garage about this some time ago).
They are of course speed limited and the driver must follow the customer to the tyre place or home (where they can then take the...
The MG5 (what we're talking about here in the MG5 section) does have this feature as mentioned above. Whether it works or not remains to be seen as a few have still ended up with flat 12v batteries.
You'd have to take the door card off to see if the wires are there on the loom. I would bet they will be because it's cheaper in production just having the one component on all cars.
Plenty of aftermarket 12v heated pads around too.
Just in case anyone is interested, whilst browsing CarMats.co.uk (which came recommend from this forum) I spotted they have two mats available for MG5 long range now.
Looking at the diagram they seem to be shaped differently to fit the profile of the boot floor in each position.
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