Preheat cabine

[matejF]

Doest the preheating the cabin from the app drain the battery or will it use the charger if the car is plugin?

 

[MG Clive]

One will cancel the other out if the battery is on charge at the same time, in other words, you'll be putting as much in with the charging as you'll take out with the pre-heating. But pre-heating doesn't actually use up as much as you might think, probably less than 2% for 10 minutes.

 

[TimothyN]

My app tells me that it's preheating, with the seat and steering wheel heat on, but when I get out there it isn't. It's never worked.

 

[Lovemyev]

Hang on ?.
Are we getting our wires crossed here a bit.
Are we talking about selecting the preheating of the traction battery, or preheating of the internal cabin space here, sorry I am a bit confused here .
@TimothyN I have never had a problem with preheating the front seats in our S5.
I request each seat individually it in the App and it comes back with a successful message on each seat.
Not tried the steering wheel preheating from the App yet, but I know it works inside of the car,
Never had a heated steering wheel before, it feels nice and a little strange at first .

 

[Ian Key]

A rough calculation somewhere on the MG4 forum shows that pre-heating the traction battery isn't worth it unless the journey is over 37 miles as the increased efficiency needs that distance to counteract the energy used.

Normally in the UK, unless the temperature gets well below zero or you need to save time at a rapid charger, it's not needed.

 

[MG Clive]

Hang on ?.
Are we getting our wires crossed here a bit.
Are we talking about selecting the preheating of the traction battery, or preheating of the internal cabin space here, sorry I am a bit confused here .

Well the original question was about heating the interior cabin

 

[DaveIJ]

Mine works fine, just got in a frost free and warm car