Picking up our MG4 SE tomorrow, Monday 6th March. I keep reading about the lack of updates being made by the dealerships (LKA, Locked in car problem etc) I spoke to the salesman a couple of times last week and each time I mentioned that I would like any updates made before I collect and he assured me that 'all was up to date'. I'm new to this with EV's so what should I be looking for before leaving the dealership which will put my mind at ease? TIA, Mike
Hi Mike welcome to the forum, when you collect the car if it is pulling quite hard on the steering wheel left or right at anything below 35 mph then probably it has not been up dated, so if it does start to pull stop and in the infotainment screen, that’s the bigger one in the middle of the car, you will find a slider for LKA turn that off and it should stop it.
Now I have in fact no idea and I don’t think anybody here as for certain, if some of these problems are linked in some way, the reason I say that is my wife’s car was like I described above when we collect and within the first mile I had to stop to switch off the LKA and just left it at that for the first five months, and never was it switched back on nor did it come back on buy itself, but when the recall update for the door locking was done it is now being said you need to switch it to off each time you get in the car I:e it won’t stay in the off position, well that’s in debate now because now it’s totally different in how it behaves, and appears to be working as it should, but only had the the car back for 2days with the new set up so I have really had time to check it fully, I will be doing a post on my findings shortly.
If the car is pulling as described above and the software is linked somehow then maybe you may still have the door locking issues, and I would knowing what I know now be taking the car right back as you don’t want that happening to you, if it does you can get out through the boot at a struggle. Lots of information on this forum.
I hope you don’t have any issues and all is well it should be nowadays, I think it was us who have got the very early cars that have had the issues and the dealers should not be allowing cars to go out with out the issues being fixed first, but don’t rely on it some dealers are good some not so it appears.
Now Mike can I asked you to do something that might help everyone that is,
You say you are collecting you car today 6th you said it’s an SE, but no don’t say if it SR or LR, that’s Short or Long Range, so that would be good to know which it is, and it will help very much if you can take pictures of the software that is installed in your new today car.
Reason I ask this is it’s seem there might some different versions of software being fitted between SE SR, LR, and Trophy models, so if you can do that in the next couple of days that would be helpful thank you.you can see the screen picture in the posts above of the software versions.
Les
