Not sure if you follow the Fully Charged Show on YouTube, if you don’t then I can highly recommend it. One of their best presenters, Robert Llewellyn, bought an MG4 a few months ago and did a rave review back then. A few months later he is back with a more in depth review and it’s worth a watch.
It covers the virtues of the MG4s tight turning circle and the horror that is the “Lane Keeping Assistant”, which as all MG4 owners already know, is less of an assistant and more of an surprise attempt to kill you whilst you’re peacefully driving down a country lane.
It’s so bad that I have named my lane keeping assistant Cato, after the sidekick of Inspector Clouseau, who was famed for his surprise martial arts attacks.
What this review does not mention is the many other software 'features' that I personally have experienced with my MG4 Trophy (purchased new in June 2023)!
For example, he does not mention that when the 'far too sensitive' light sensor on the dash, having switched the lights on when the car passes into a shadow and then off again when in full sun, proceeds to reactivate the Lane Keeping Assist (LKA).
So, having deactivated the LKA after entering the car in the garage and then having driven out of the garage, I find that I then need to switch the LKA off again before setting off.
I also tested this by partially covering the light sensor with my hand and noting that when I then put the car in drive, the LKA is reactivated.
Would not be so annoying if the light sensor were not so over-sensitive!
I too have had the car now for around 3 months and only last night for the first time I was driving home in the dark from visiting friends and experienced the awful high beam assist!
In the end I had to pull over and figure out how to deactivate this annoying option as it was going from high to low beam and back continuously (even when it illuminated a reflective roadside sign for eg.)
As many others have reported, I have also had issues with the infotainment screen having off-days with the DAB radio disappearing and then the screen becoming unstable or completely going blank.
I am depositing the car at the main dealer today for potentially 1 week in order to investigate this last issue.
Unfortunately I do not have any confidence that they will resolve this issue as the car has already been into the dealer and all that they did was to perform a software reset as there was not a software update to potentially solve this particular very intermittent problem.
I should mention that for the first 7 weeks that I had the car it performed without any noticeable issues (apart from the LKA of course which I simply had to put up with).
I find that I am now struggling to decide whether to simply return the car to the dealer (and to most likely suffer the loss of a significant amount of cash) - or to hope that MG eventually get around to fixing at least some of these very annoying issues!
Such a shame, since I agree with the reviewer that in many ways the car is amazing to drive.
genius
