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I don't know about the balancing, but my understanding of the KERS is that level 3 is ineffective when you're 95% and above, as it has nowhere to go. What I find on mine is it feels like level 2 for the first 5%, then the level 3 kicks in after that. So you will always get some KERS effect, but...

Gosh how are people getting 4? I've been lucky to get above 3,currently showing 2.7 :(

MG5 Mk1 Long Range. Quite impressed with this average after a holiday in Devon, particularly at this time of year with the unhelpful weather. This included getting down there and back from the Wirral, so mostly motorway. Whilst there I often used sport mode and kers 3 for the hills around where...

I also find it's not particularly effective in eco mode, but even in normal you might have to use the rapid front screen demister switch occasionally.

When I first got mine in March 2022, I regularly used eco and kers3 for all journeys, my daily commute at the time was about 12 miles each way, mostly town and city with a little bit motorway. I would usually find I'd covered 200 miles when the battery got to 20%, and it showed as having 50...

I had this issue with my MG3, so now I plug it into the accessory socket. Dashcam powers itself off its own battery when the car is off.

Had my car since March last year, noticed my first bit of warmer weather improvement just now. Little trip out to Tesco, set off with 81% battery and 187 miles range, did an 8 mile round trip, town driving on normal mode and kers 2, got back with 82% battery and 188 miles range 👍👍👍

Hopefully not too long. I'm in a similar situation, but there's a 7kw near where I work where you can park all day, so I tend to do a slow all day charge there every so often. Still half the cost of petrol even after including parking fees. It's worth downloading an app called ZapMap if you...

Had mine from new, just realised it was one year old yesterday, so happy birthday! I had a used Kia Niro PHEV for a year beforehand to get used to the whole plugging in thing, intended to keep it longer but then trade in values worked in my favour for once. I was obsessed with range to begin...

There seems to be about a million different things that affect range and efficiency, just something you get used to over time. Ambient temperature is a big one which you mentioned, what you're carrying, hills, weather, I could go on. I remember my first long-ish journey to North Wales, I left...

Thanks everyone, now I can confidently experiment without worrying about getting stranded :)

Don't know if this is the same issue, but for what it's worth, I recently hired a car and found Android Auto kept dropping out. After a bit of digging I discovered it doesn't like having different cars connected in the app, removing my own car and the previous one sorted it. Then deleted the...

Hi everyone, Does anyone know if the front USB ports on the pre-facelift MG5 stay live when you switch off and lock the car, or do they power down? I have an Android Auto wireless adapter and wondering if I can leave it plugged in or need to disconnect it every time I leave the car, as I don't...

I'm interested to know what settings you use to get 300 miles - I tend to use Eco mode and KERS level 3, that normally gets me close to the advertised official 249 with mostly town and some motorway. Obviously I won't get anywhere near that at this time of year, but now I'm doing mostly town...

I'd be rejecting that car immediately, I know there's a chip shortage but it's nowhere near the advertised spec or what you ordered, and you don't hear of other manufacturers doing this.

I find mine is fairly accurate on eco, kers 3, and staying below 60mph, but doing constant 70mph on the motorway recently I lost 40 miles range in a 150 mile journey. I would be guided more by the battery percentage, the range indicator is colloquially known as the "Guess-O-Meter" for a reason!

I've had the same, I wondered if it's something to do with the type of technology it uses. I noticed once they came on when it was dusk but dark enough, then I went under a motorway bridge where it was even darker for a few seconds, when I came out the other side they went off as the car thought...

Rear wiper logic? I don't think there is any. Mine certainly has a mind of its own. As do the auto front wipers. As do the auto lights. And the infotainment screen.

I've found S mode is useful when you do a run to the tip, as I have a couple of times. Incidentally, the 5 swallowed both a washing machine and a double mattress relatively easily :)

Glad it's not just me then! I just had this issue, drove straight to my dealer, when I got there it had opened and now it's fine. Dealer advice was to carry a toolkit and some WD40 at all times :LOL: