PaulT
Novice Member
Hi all, just found this forum so thought I’d share my thoughts on the car having had it for the last month.
So this car was available for me as a company car (without a test drive) as a replacement for my insignia. After watching reviews on you tube, seeing all the “bits” you get on the exclusive, having some days where I only travel around 50 miles and the BIK being lower than the previous car I decided to go for it.
The first thing I noticed was the regen braking. It’s taken a bit of getting used to having to accelerate going downhill but I’m slowly getting used to it.
Speaking of slow, is anyone having issues with the acceleration when using adaptive cruise control? I had it set for 70MPH and when traffic slowed to 40 it had no problems keeping me a safe distance from the car in front, however when speed picks up it seems very hesitant to close the gap, leaving you almost stranded and people looking to undertake you.
The Satnav - Motorway signs were telling me that it was closed in 2 junctions time yet the satnav was quite happy for me to head straight through it. I opened up google maps through CarPlay and it knew all about it and rerouted me so I’m thinking I’ve been spoilt by my tomtom unit previously as that was always very traffic aware, the built in unit seems very hit and miss.
The radio - It has favourites for 6 stations but when using the steering wheel controls it seems to take me through every DAB station rather than jumping between my presets. I can’t find any setting to change this so presume that’s how it is.
Going from satnav to change the radio station involves too much eyes off the road, pressing home key, touching radio, selecting station, home key again and then touching back to nav.
Also I found that I can’t get out of a phone call back to the nav until the call is ended. Any incoming call at the wrong time and you’ll miss your junction. Pressing home key did nothing to get me off the phone menu.
I’m aware that this is my first post and it’s mostly negative but everything else I’m happy with, the seats are comfortable and it drives well (600 miles so far). I’ve experienced a lag in gear change that I’ve seen others comment about but as long as you know about it then you can adjust for it.
It just seems that with a few software tweaks it would go from a good driving experience to a great one.
The things software can’t fix I’ll look to modify myself, such as the location of the USB sockets (going to try and run the wires under the centre console to under the arm rest) and the really dim lights for lane alerts (I didn’t think they were working to start with!)
Does anyone know if MG people read stuff on here or if they are looking to change software on the cars?
My old car had a Wi-fi connection and updated a couple of times over the last 3 years but can’t find an option for this one so guessing it would be a dealer visit if they did.
Do they have any plans to bring the MG app to this country? I didn’t realise it wasn’t available here and was hoping to see how much it was charged and maybe even turn on some heat in the winter months before going outside.
Final question from me (for now), did people get a type 2 fly lead with the car for use on public charging points or just the home charger?
Thanks all, Paul.
So this car was available for me as a company car (without a test drive) as a replacement for my insignia. After watching reviews on you tube, seeing all the “bits” you get on the exclusive, having some days where I only travel around 50 miles and the BIK being lower than the previous car I decided to go for it.
The first thing I noticed was the regen braking. It’s taken a bit of getting used to having to accelerate going downhill but I’m slowly getting used to it.
Speaking of slow, is anyone having issues with the acceleration when using adaptive cruise control? I had it set for 70MPH and when traffic slowed to 40 it had no problems keeping me a safe distance from the car in front, however when speed picks up it seems very hesitant to close the gap, leaving you almost stranded and people looking to undertake you.
The Satnav - Motorway signs were telling me that it was closed in 2 junctions time yet the satnav was quite happy for me to head straight through it. I opened up google maps through CarPlay and it knew all about it and rerouted me so I’m thinking I’ve been spoilt by my tomtom unit previously as that was always very traffic aware, the built in unit seems very hit and miss.
The radio - It has favourites for 6 stations but when using the steering wheel controls it seems to take me through every DAB station rather than jumping between my presets. I can’t find any setting to change this so presume that’s how it is.
Going from satnav to change the radio station involves too much eyes off the road, pressing home key, touching radio, selecting station, home key again and then touching back to nav.
Also I found that I can’t get out of a phone call back to the nav until the call is ended. Any incoming call at the wrong time and you’ll miss your junction. Pressing home key did nothing to get me off the phone menu.
I’m aware that this is my first post and it’s mostly negative but everything else I’m happy with, the seats are comfortable and it drives well (600 miles so far). I’ve experienced a lag in gear change that I’ve seen others comment about but as long as you know about it then you can adjust for it.
It just seems that with a few software tweaks it would go from a good driving experience to a great one.
The things software can’t fix I’ll look to modify myself, such as the location of the USB sockets (going to try and run the wires under the centre console to under the arm rest) and the really dim lights for lane alerts (I didn’t think they were working to start with!)
Does anyone know if MG people read stuff on here or if they are looking to change software on the cars?
My old car had a Wi-fi connection and updated a couple of times over the last 3 years but can’t find an option for this one so guessing it would be a dealer visit if they did.
Do they have any plans to bring the MG app to this country? I didn’t realise it wasn’t available here and was hoping to see how much it was charged and maybe even turn on some heat in the winter months before going outside.
Final question from me (for now), did people get a type 2 fly lead with the car for use on public charging points or just the home charger?
Thanks all, Paul.