Edmusicman
Standard Member
Mine just arrived the other day just in time for Christmas! LR TROPHY connect (facelift) in ‘York White’ (apparently?!) from MG Richmond, Portsmouth driven all the way up to me near Preston on a small transporter which took the driver almost 11 hours! Poor guy.
Very pleased so far with it; but just have a couple of thoughts I’d love to share to see if others have any of these issues;
The central column block presses right up against my left knee all the time and is very uncomfortable I might have to put some padding on it. Even with my left foot on the foot rest pedal it just digs into my knee area Iv not got a weird leg issue and am pretty standard size and medium to slightly large build at just under 5’11 but the layout just seems really tight on the left side. Maybe more experimentation with seat height is required.
The startup greeting always gets the date as Jan 1st 2019?! Does anyone know how to fix this? I can’t find any date setting in the menus so I am presuming that it is getting this from GPS? Should I reset anything like dead reckoning? <some one already mentioned a connect issue, is there a workaround I’m missing? >
Lane keeping alarm notifications… arggg!! This only stayed enabled for less that a few hours on the first day for me. It is just far too sensitive. Even at its lowest sensitivity. Worryingly, I kept finding on the motorway with lane keeping on and MG pilot it kept pulling me over towards the left and then having to correct ITSELF suddenly back to the right again suddenly. Does anyone else have this? I feel like i’m fighting it sometimes. It’s comical, going on blooming dangerous and must look ridiculous from behind kangarooing in the lane. On sections of motorway where they now put those Concrete barriers right up to the left line it feels horribly dangerous as it genuinely wants to pull towards it all the time. Iv checked my road positioning multiple times from my perspective and a passengers and for some reason it has a left tendency/ bias pull? Is it designed to keep your left wheels practically touching the left line and not inbetween the lines in the middle of the lane equally? Thanks how it feels at the moment. If this is not right I will have to get it looked at urgently.
On the DAB radio favourites page.. iv added favourites but they won’t change station when pressing them? Nothing happens. This screen seems like it has a bug maybe? Seems to work fine on the FM page.
Should double pressing the remote lock on the keyfob activate the locate vehicle function with flashing lights and horn? I just get the flashing lights no horn.
Constant fogging up. Not surprised one bit at the moment with the weather we are having so I just keep flipping the front windscreen demist on and off as needed. Do most people use auto mode (with the auto fan speed set low) and leave it running?
I love the EV experience so far. The most noticeable thing I’m finding up in the lakes at the moment is how different the accelerator pedal works in evs. Not something which I had heard much about before or considered but to keep the car at a constant speed on varying terrain I am
Having to adjust the power with the accelerator much more than on any ICE I have driven. The right foot is up and down much more and I can’t lock in a speed by ‘feel’ keeping my foot in one position so resort to using the cruise control for longer stretches of road. Going up hill in particular It feels like I really have to floor it to keep up speed. I may just be too used and spoilt driving big-engined diesel cars over the last few years! And it’s been about 10 years since I drove petrol lol.
I wish that we had the KERS when using cruise control - will this ever come to the ZS? I don’t imagine a software update will change that but I believe the MG4 does.
Loving everything else about the car at the minute especially not having to put in £110 of diesel everytime to fill up.
Any thoughts by more experienced or fellow new owners of the ZS (facelift) would be welcome!
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone!
And a happy new year.
Cheers,
Ed
Very pleased so far with it; but just have a couple of thoughts I’d love to share to see if others have any of these issues;
The central column block presses right up against my left knee all the time and is very uncomfortable I might have to put some padding on it. Even with my left foot on the foot rest pedal it just digs into my knee area Iv not got a weird leg issue and am pretty standard size and medium to slightly large build at just under 5’11 but the layout just seems really tight on the left side. Maybe more experimentation with seat height is required.
The startup greeting always gets the date as Jan 1st 2019?! Does anyone know how to fix this? I can’t find any date setting in the menus so I am presuming that it is getting this from GPS? Should I reset anything like dead reckoning? <some one already mentioned a connect issue, is there a workaround I’m missing? >
Lane keeping alarm notifications… arggg!! This only stayed enabled for less that a few hours on the first day for me. It is just far too sensitive. Even at its lowest sensitivity. Worryingly, I kept finding on the motorway with lane keeping on and MG pilot it kept pulling me over towards the left and then having to correct ITSELF suddenly back to the right again suddenly. Does anyone else have this? I feel like i’m fighting it sometimes. It’s comical, going on blooming dangerous and must look ridiculous from behind kangarooing in the lane. On sections of motorway where they now put those Concrete barriers right up to the left line it feels horribly dangerous as it genuinely wants to pull towards it all the time. Iv checked my road positioning multiple times from my perspective and a passengers and for some reason it has a left tendency/ bias pull? Is it designed to keep your left wheels practically touching the left line and not inbetween the lines in the middle of the lane equally? Thanks how it feels at the moment. If this is not right I will have to get it looked at urgently.
On the DAB radio favourites page.. iv added favourites but they won’t change station when pressing them? Nothing happens. This screen seems like it has a bug maybe? Seems to work fine on the FM page.
Should double pressing the remote lock on the keyfob activate the locate vehicle function with flashing lights and horn? I just get the flashing lights no horn.
Constant fogging up. Not surprised one bit at the moment with the weather we are having so I just keep flipping the front windscreen demist on and off as needed. Do most people use auto mode (with the auto fan speed set low) and leave it running?
I love the EV experience so far. The most noticeable thing I’m finding up in the lakes at the moment is how different the accelerator pedal works in evs. Not something which I had heard much about before or considered but to keep the car at a constant speed on varying terrain I am
Having to adjust the power with the accelerator much more than on any ICE I have driven. The right foot is up and down much more and I can’t lock in a speed by ‘feel’ keeping my foot in one position so resort to using the cruise control for longer stretches of road. Going up hill in particular It feels like I really have to floor it to keep up speed. I may just be too used and spoilt driving big-engined diesel cars over the last few years! And it’s been about 10 years since I drove petrol lol.
I wish that we had the KERS when using cruise control - will this ever come to the ZS? I don’t imagine a software update will change that but I believe the MG4 does.
Loving everything else about the car at the minute especially not having to put in £110 of diesel everytime to fill up.
Any thoughts by more experienced or fellow new owners of the ZS (facelift) would be welcome!
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone!
And a happy new year.
Cheers,
Ed
Appreciate it!
