One week in ….

[Rolfe]

Not having a Trophy I can't be sure, but I thought other Trophy owners said their radio remembered whether it was on or off when the car was last used and came back on in the same configuration. That's what you'd expect (It's what my 2009 Golf did and to be honest I don't remember any of my previous cars not doing it.) Maybe check with someone else who has a Trophy?

The disappearing LKA option sounds downright weird and if I were you I'd be telling my dealer. This is arguably a safety issue as it says in the handbook that the LKA should be turned off "immediately" if road conditions (no white lines, car following something that isn't a white line, whatever) cause the function to behave badly.

 

[JeffMcC75]

Yes radio on when you stop and lock up. Radio off when you restart. Mg pilot sometimes all options there and sometimes the option to have LKA on or off or the amount of warning alarm corrective steering etc doesn't always appear

You need to make sure the car is in ready mode otherwise the LKA option doesn't appear in the MG Pilot menu. So press the brake pedal down when you get in and it will magically appear.

 

[Rolfe]

Is it as simple as that?

You know, talking of simple, I heard a slightly amazing one on one of the EV YouTube videos I watched. The presenter said he was talking to a lady driver (possibly at a charge-point?) and she said she'd love to be able to use a rapid charger but unfortunately her car wasn't equipped with the capability, and it was taking her SO long to charge it.

The presenter opened the charging port of her car and showed her how to pull out the removable cover over the DC charging ports below the type 2 ports, to make a CCS charging port. Her dealer hadn't explained it to her. How was she supposed to know?

 

[JeffMcC75]

There are so many things with an EV you need to learn, even my dealer didn't know the answer to some of my questions, and also told me things that weren't true (Like you have to get out and lock the car or it won't charge)

There's plenty of online resources now people are expected to research it themselves.

 

[Rolfe]

Some people just aren't going to watch a load of YouTube videos. There's always the handbook, but if I hadn't come here and seen Sloucher's great offer and bought a hard copy, I wouldn' have read that either. Yes at some level a new owner is going to have to find things out for themselves, but if someone is completely new to EVs, maybe tell them the difference between AC and DC charging and show them the DC terminals? Maybe even tell them that there are a lot of helpful videos on YouTube? It's possible they might not have realised that.

There were things my dealer was hazy about too. I had my test drive in a Trophy, but I was buying an SE SR. I said something about understanding that the battery normally had to be filled only to 80%. What the dealer should have said was, no, you're thinking of the long range battery, the standard one has a different chemistry and is better charged to 100% every time. What he actually said, in a slightly perplexed voice, was "Oh? MG just tell us to whack them up to 100% every time." So I'm looking at the app that has 80% labelled as "health mode" and 100% labelled as "long trip mode" and I don't understand at all. It took several videos and reading posts here for me to understand the issue completely.

He was very bad about explaining what was on offer. He was a bit condescending. He kept saying, what are you going to do if you break down? I said, call the RAC, that having been my answer since 1985 when I bought my first Fiesta. He didn't say anything at all about any AA membership coming with the deal, and although he pointed out the SOS button he didn't really explain how that would summon help. I thought he was simply trying to sell me stuff, whereas a better explanation would have made me consider whether I really needed the RAC membership now.

I do feel a bit sorry especially for older buyers who may not be very computer-savvy and maybe they're only of average intelligence, and they could probably do with a bit of hand-holding.

 

[RayReliable]

When my car was delivered the guy told me there was no manual and would need to use Google ?

Luckily I watched every video available in the weeks leading up to delivery so I was all good, then just experiment with the features.

 

[Rolfe]

You can't be serious!

I didn't have weeks. Realised I probably had to get a new car on 31st March. Spent that evening watching EV porn on YouTube and decided the MG4 was probably a no-brainer. Also picked up a lot of useful information. Test-drove a Trophy a week later. Took delivery of my car five days after that.

This forum has helped enormously, not only with direct advice but by linking to Really Useful Stuff on YouTube.

 

[Ian Key]

I do feel a bit sorry especially for older buyers who may not be very computer-savvy and maybe they're only of average intelligence, and they could probably do with a bit of hand-holding.

Reminds me of my technophobic auntie. She had a 6 year old top spec Honda Civic and decided it was time to have a new one. She went to the dealers and insisted on having a new top spec Honda Civic.
When the dealer tried to show her how the car worked she brushed him away saying she's had a Civic before and didn't need his help.
As far as I know she only ever knew how to start it, drive it and stop it. She never used any of the technology and didn't even know how to switch on the radio.

 

[Rolfe]

Her choice I suppose.

<Gets back to copying CDs on to a USB stick in a form that the damn MG4 will play...>

 

[tsedge]

That reminds me, where is the slot for the gramophone in the MG4 and has anyone modded the stylus yet?

I am looking forward to upgrading to 8-track soon. ???

 

[Rolfe]

You settle for crappy streamed sound if you like. Some of us know what we want to listen to!

 

[Robf]

When my car was delivered the guy told me there was no manual and would need to use Google ?

Luckily I watched every video available in the weeks leading up to delivery so I was all good, then just experiment with the features.

Funny that, all manuals for my car (MG ZS EV) including Navi and Service are available on my Ismart app for car under profile-manuals (you can store them as PDF's)? Are they not available for the MG4 under the same?... But...I am one of those older buyers (over 65) who maybe confused, now where did I put that TV remote .

 

[Rolfe]

Yes, they're there all right, and in the car's infotainment system as well I think. But Sloucher has printed and bound copies available at a very reasonable price, highly recommend.

 

[tsedge]

You settle for crappy streamed sound if you like. Some of us know what we want to listen to!

I have a hearing impairment so can't tell the difference.

 

[Rolfe]

You must find that the absence of the noise of an ICE makes a lot of difference though?

 

[RayReliable]

Funny that, all manuals for my car (MG ZS EV) including Navi and Service are available on my Ismart app for car under profile-manuals (you can store them as PDF's)? Are they not available for the MG4 under the same?... But...I am one of those older buyers (over 65) who maybe confused, now where did I put that TV remote .

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Yes they are but not if the delivery person doesn’t even know there is an app ?

 

[tsedge]

You must find that the absence of the noise of an ICE makes a lot of difference though?

Yes, I have trouble distinguishing loud sounds so makes in car conversations much much easier and better.

 

[Rolfe]

Yes, I have trouble distinguishing loud sounds so makes in car conversations much much easier and better.

I'm pretty sure the sound system in the MG4 isn't objectively better than the one in my Golf. But it sounds better, because I can hear a lot of detail that used to be drowned out by engine noise.

Yes they are but not if the delivery person doesn’t even know there is an app ?

You have got to making this up!

 

[RayReliable]

You have got to making this up!

No it’s a lease with Octopus. They use a 3rd party dealer that works on behalf of many similar lease companies. So if the car is unfamiliar I guess they only know what the learn by driving the car to the destination.

If I wasn’t so tech literate I can imagine it would have been a nightmare.

 

[Rolfe]

Doesn't bear thinking about!