MS S5 Door opening issue

[AmarShahi]

Hi everyone, I am from Kathmandu, Nepal and I am an owner of MG S5 base variant. I have driven the car for more than 1000 kms and I noticed an issue with the door safety. Even when the car is running at high speed, the door can be opened by pulling the lever once. In the previous cars I owned, we needed to pull the lever twice to open when the car is in motion. This is a high risk for me since I drive the car with my baby in the back seat and I'm afraid they might play with the lever and the door might accidentally open in high speed. Has anyone else faced the same issue?

 

[salty]

Amar. Surely your rear doors can be locked, either with child locks on the rear doors. Or from your switches on your drivers door. Especially on such a new car.

 

[AmarShahi]

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Amar. Surely your rear doors can be locked, either with child locks on the rear doors. Or from your switches on your drivers door. Especially on such a new car.

Thank you! I am using the child lock for now. However the normal locking mechanism is useless since we can unlock the car while in motion even with a single pull.

 

[Alb]

It certainly should autolock above 15kph though perhaps that was disabled in the infotainment setup? Can you still lock the doors manually whilst in motion?

 

[AmarShahi]

It makes a locking sound after 15 km/h speed, but we can still open the door (including driver door) in a single pull. I tried manually locking the door but same issue.

 

[Alb]

Perhaps it works differently on the MGS5 then.
Hopefully one of our other MGS5 owners will be able to confirm what their car does.

 

[deetha54]

Yes … this is a huge problem…. I too own an MG S5 in Nepal. When the car is above 15 km/hr the door auto locks but that’s effective for opening from outside only. You can’t open the car from outside when locked but you can open the door from inside with a single pull of the lever even if the car is in motion….. that’s a big safety hazard specially when traveling with children. Any solutions for this?

 

[AmarShahi]

Yes … this is a huge problem…. I too own an MG S5 in Nepal. When the car is above 15 km/hr the door auto locks but that’s effective for opening from outside only. You can’t open the car from outside when locked but you can open the door from inside with a single pull of the lever even if the car is in motion….. that’s a big safety hazard specially when traveling with children. Any solutions for this?

I have turned the child safety on as suggested in this thread. That has solved the issue for now. I've noticed all other EVs in Nepal open the door when pulling the lever twice, but MG has implemented it incorrectly. I hope MG Nepal comes up with an update to fix it soon.

 

[nem]

Im pretty sure that my rear doors are not able to be opened from the inside when they are locked.

Neither with a single, nor a double pull on the handle inside..

I need to verify this next time im out for a drive to be certain tho, but i had some mates being unnable to exit the vehicle the other day because it was locked, and as soon as i opened the doors with the control from driver seat, they were able to get out. Might be childs lock that is enabled (?)

 

[Kenp1]

I don't think this dangerous, use the child locks if you don't want the doors to open from the inside.