A series of unfortunate events: alarm, then strange yellow warning light

[QLeo]

Had a strange one with Leo the Goth MG4 today, and I thought I'd share the experience here in case the MG4 hive mind has any ideas.

From the beginning: We were going into the village. I climbed in, and all the usual lights came on, and I put my foot on the brake. I tried putting Leo into reverse, but nothing happened. The Ready light, I am sure, had come on. I took my foot off the brake and tried again. "Ready" came up again, and Leo went into gear. Odd, but possibly my fault.

Then, in the village, we put Leo onto the slow charger, as we've done countless times before. A couple of hours later, we returned. I used the zapper to unlock, I opened the boot, and the alarm went off. We could not see any reason for this. I locked the car again with the zapper, and unlocked and all seemed well. I did not get an alarm email, as I have once before a couple of years ago, so I don't think it was a real alarm.

We then drove off, and a minute or so later, an icon that I have never seen before appeared, without the fearsome bingly-bong of the usual alarms. See attached, taken from the manual. It's what looks like a yellow battery, stacked 3-high, with a yellow exclamation mark through it. Nothing else untoward happened. As it happened, we had to stop again a couple of minutes later. I locked the car and there was a small blip of the hooter, almost like when you leave a door open and try to lock,, but shorter than that.

A few minutes after that, we climbed into the car and drove home, absolutely normally.

So the questions. What on earth happened? And should we really contact our dealer about this as the manual suggests? It seems rather drastic. I'd welcome any comments.

 

[ReintjeWA]

I only ever see that light when I finish a DC charge, then when I tap the brake the light goes off. It’s very strange this light would come on whilst driving as it indicates (as far as I can tell) that the drive battery has disconnected. Which would leave you without drive power I would assume.

Personally I would chalk it up to a glitch, but if it happened again I’d be talking to the dealership.

I actually had my first alarm trigger the other day, I used the key fob to unlock the car for the missus, as she got in I instinctively pressed the button on the door to unlock the car, which of course tried to lock it. As soon as it tried to lock the alarm went off as it detected an intruder (presumably the wife who was halfway to sitting down). I unlocked with the key fob but that didn’t seem to help so I pushed down on the driver seat and then maybe locked/unlocked, I can’t recall precisely what I did to silence the car. At least I now know the alarm is functional.

 

[QLeo]

I only ever see that light when I finish a DC charge, then when I tap the brake the light goes off. It’s very strange this light would come on whilst driving as it indicates (as far as I can tell) that the drive battery has disconnected. Which would leave you without drive power I would assume.

Personally I would chalk it up to a glitch, but if it happened again I’d be talking to the dealership.

I actually had my first alarm trigger the other day, I used the key fob to unlock the car for the missus, as she got in I instinctively pressed the button on the door to unlock the car, which of course tried to lock it. As soon as it tried to lock the alarm went off as it detected an intruder (presumably the wife who was halfway to sitting down). I unlocked with the key fob but that didn’t seem to help so I pushed down on the driver seat and then maybe locked/unlocked, I can’t recall precisely what I did to silence the car. At least I now know the alarm is functional.

That's reassuring, thanks. Suits me to put it down to a singular event. Maybe Christmas just isn't Goth Leo's time of the year. I wonder if anyone else has experience this.