IM6 Rapid Charging

[LenEV2016]

Yes although hopefully we can clarify this before then. It may be that it works with the satnav rather than all the time. Hopefully the meeting Miles is having this week will clarify.

Agree seems a strange thing to just activate with temperature, as you say if you've no intention of DC charging on your trip it is doing more harm than good

 

[tsedge]

Agree seems a strange thing to just activate with temperature, as you say if you've no intention of DC charging on your trip it is doing more harm than good

NB: I am not yet convinced this is behind the poor efficiency measured in IMs in low temps, but if it turns out it is always running, would make the efficiency significantly better (once we can turn it off), although still not class leading by any means.

 

[MSvirus]

Too bad the premium IM < budget MG4 in the cold/winter. MG4 has significantly lower consumption, quicker heater, quicker heated seats, much more power in the heated steering wheel, functioning door handles and the ability to turn off auto mirror folding.

 

[NikLiverpool]

Too bad the premium IM < budget MG4 in the cold/winter. MG4 has significantly lower consumption, quicker heater, quicker heated seats, much more power in the heated steering wheel, functioning door handles and the ability to turn off auto mirror folding.

To be fair I am not noticing any issues with the heating speed of either seats, steering wheel or the AC itself.
Now I cannot compare with the MG4 but against my wife's BYD they are on par.
Only when I run the car on ECO there is a lag on AC heating but this is set this way.
Can you please expand on this?

As for the door handles I did not have any issues so far. Fully agree on the annoying lack of turning off the mirror folding.

 

[MikeJS]

Hi Mike. Thanks for pursuing this. I may have missed this but did MG clarify that this would activate if you select a rapid charger on the navigation or it will just warm/cool the batteries to maintain temp within specific thresholds?

They said - The battery heater operates automatically when the high voltage battery temperature falls below a specific threshold - nothing about Navigation. They seem to think it comes on if the battery temp drops below XX degs. If this is the case they have not learnt from others. Firstly, if you have enough battery to get to your destination the last thing you want is for the battery heater to come on by itself becuse of temp, as all this will do is use power unnecessarily. What is best is to have the driver’s option to switch it on if you are navigating to a rapid charger and you want to charge as fat as possible. Second best is for it to switch on automatically if you are Navigating to a rapid charger. However, this then tends to mean you must use the car’s Nav system and it will come on even if you do not need it and use power unnecessarily.

 

[MikeJS]

Too bad the premium IM < budget MG4 in the cold/winter. MG4 has significantly lower consumption, quicker heater, quicker heated seats, much more power in the heated steering wheel, functioning door handles and the ability to turn off auto mirror folding.

In my IM6 the heater and heated seat are quick and I can feel them when I am 300m down the road and the steering wheel is hot enough to warm my hands. I have no problem with the door handles working and you can adjust what the mirrors do in reverse….

 

[MikeJS]

We need our Norway members to test this battery heating statement with a OBD scanner…..

 

[MSvirus]

To be fair I am not noticing any issues with the heating speed of either seats, steering wheel or the AC itself.
Now I cannot compare with the MG4 but against my wife's BYD they are on par.
Only when I run the car on ECO there is a lag on AC heating but this is set this way.
Can you please expand on this?

As for the door handles I did not have any issues so far. Fully agree on the annoying lack of turning off the mirror folding.

I must precise, the heated seats, heated wheel and interior heater is not bad on IM6, MG4 on the other hand is probably very good in this aspect. But after driving the MG4 for over two years, and testing my IM6 in -20C the other day, I really notice a difference.

The MG4 wheel gets warm so quick, it takes just a minute, and it gets really hot. IM6 wheel it takes time, and never get hot, just mild warm. In fact I sometime wonder if it has timed out, but hasn't. It's heat there, just not that much. Seems on the other thread, that this issue has been taken up to CG Miles.

IM6 heated seats is good, but probably not that high max amperages as the MG4, as that is rapid and really hot.

MG4 blows hot in just seconds after starting the car in really cold, without any preheating. IM6 takes some minutes. PTC heater and heat pump on my norwegian MG4 and just heat pump on my norwegian IM6 maybe? Heat pumps use some minutes to provide heat.

Both cars seems to be closed up in the cabin. Seems that the fan pushes air into the cabin but the outlets maybe too small so it gets low circulation of the air, as the smallest diameter restricts it. In -20 the IM6 needs to be at fan speed 7 (quite high) to keep the front three windows totally misting up, with only 1 person in the car. Same problem on MG4s. At -30C the fan needs to be on max to see out the window of that car.

I have had a handle freeze up, but no bad things happened (yet). Not had the mirrors to freeze up, but looks like the weather later this week will challenge that.

 

[MSvirus]

We need our Norway members to test this battery heating statement with a OBD scanner…..

I have the BT OBD2 dongle stationary in the socket in my IM6, but hasn't had time to configure up the app to look at the values, I am afraid. Need to get the data collection up and running!

 

[MikeJS]

A further note re Battery Heating. As suggested by MG Customer Services (SIC) I contacted my dealer - Lookers Brighton, who I must say have been excellent.

They said - Our senior technician has reviewed all the information MG has provided – that’s training, technical and diagnostic information – and all it effectively says is that the car is equipped with a battery heater which will operate in extreme cold weather – it does not get any more specific. I’m sure there are some temperature parameters programmed into the software for it to begin automatically heating the battery, but MG UK has not made that information available.

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