Ncap fail for mg3 hybrid

[LenEV2016]

The government body dvsa will force MG to do a recall if deemed unsafe, MG can say what they want if they fail to act dvsa will force a mandatory recall, that's how it works in the UK .

Point is DVSA shouldn't need to get involved and force anything, MG should do the right thing after that failure.

Pre fix cars will be worth a fraction of what they should be worth and it could impact insurance if they do nothing

 

[Chinook]

It's not only the seat mechanism in the report the drivers airbag didn't inflate sufficiently and the test dummies head hit the steering wheel so basically is the car safe to drive mine was registered in April so it's un modified but what puzzles me if NCAP tested the MG3 when they was originally bought into the country why didn't the fault show up ive only had the car for 5 months but the wife has read the report and wants me to get rid of it or not to drive it till it's been modified no other dealer will want it so I could lose a vast amount of money on it, so a car i bought as a retirement present could be. Worthless

 

[Scotsman]

I think the air bag did inflate correctly but because the seat mechanism caused the seat to twist the crash dummies head didn't hit the air bag at the correct angle me thinks ? Me personally I think there will be a recall, but there is a lot of cars to recall. What we don't want is for dvsa to issue unsafe to drive immediately, because the car will be off the road .

 

[Chinook]

I think the air bag did inflate correctly but because the seat mechanism caused the seat to twist the crash dummies head didn't hit the air bag at the correct angle me thinks ? Me personally I think there will be a recall, but there is a lot of cars to recall. What we don't want is for dvsa to issue unsafe to drive immediately, because the car will be off the road .

I agree we don't want the cars off the road but it's still a catastrophic failure and MG seem to think that modifying new cars by October is a sufficient outcome you would think MG wouldn't like the bad publicity and would start notifying owners as soon as possible and what they are going to do about it

 

[MG Clive]

You'd expect the rating to be less than 4-Stars with such a failure, well I would.

 

[pete l]

From what I've read, it was only the offset crash test that failed.
All the other tests of the other cars, because they don't only test one car, didn't fail !

 

[Scotsman]

You'd expect the rating to be less than 4-Stars with such a failure, well I would.

I think it was because it passed in all the other safety features that are fitted. Which gave it the 4 stars, thats why ncap the body that tests the cars are reviewing their scoring system.

 

[Scotsman]

From what I've read, it was only the offset crash test that failed.
All the other tests of the other cars, because they don't only test one car, didn't fail !

Yes you are correct it did pass the other tests but unfortunately it failed on one ,which is serious for safety. See what MG UK comes up with

 

[pete l]

So why didn't the seats fail in the other crash tests? Could it have been incorrectly set??? Not quite clicked into it's place? This happens to me and you move off and position yourself in your seat and it clicks into place