LordSiborg
Established Member
During my trip back from Edinburgh Thursday I had my first major issue with the 5. Pulled over to charge at a CPS charger and the first one failed, leaving me with a system error on the car. No hope of getting hold of MG Assist, I decided to unplug and leave the car for 10 minutes to see if that worked.
I couldn't get the plug out, no matter how many times I locked and unlocked.
No problem I thought, I remember a thread somewhere about the manual release, and low and behold there it is in the manual.
Remove the cover, pull the release, one electric juzzh later and out it pops.
Fine. The car had by then decided it didn't have an error so I moved it to the next charger along and sat for 45 minutes to get above 60%. I couldn't be bothered to put the cover back on and threw it in the boot. Good thing as I couldn't unplug the connector again, and had to use the release cable.
This went on pretty much all day, Tesla public charger, couldn't recognise the car, three units the same thing, three units couldn't get the connector out. Osprey charger, wouldn't accept contactless, couldn't remove the charge cable. Ionity worked fine, charge cable came out fine.
Gridserve wetherby, first charger went out of order as soon as I plugged in. Second charger the contactless didn't work. Each time, couldn't remove the cable. Third charger worked, charged at 45kW/h which was good seeing as by now it was -3. Stopped the charge at 85% cable came out fine.
So, to get to the chase. I now have little confidence the car won't do this again, so has anyone run for an extended period without the decorative cover on? I know people chuck boxes in there and use it as a frunk, I'm very tempted just to lob the cover in the garage (alongside the pointless filler from under the boot floor) and just put it back on before the car goes back.
Any thoughts?
Simon
I couldn't get the plug out, no matter how many times I locked and unlocked.
No problem I thought, I remember a thread somewhere about the manual release, and low and behold there it is in the manual.
Remove the cover, pull the release, one electric juzzh later and out it pops.
Fine. The car had by then decided it didn't have an error so I moved it to the next charger along and sat for 45 minutes to get above 60%. I couldn't be bothered to put the cover back on and threw it in the boot. Good thing as I couldn't unplug the connector again, and had to use the release cable.
This went on pretty much all day, Tesla public charger, couldn't recognise the car, three units the same thing, three units couldn't get the connector out. Osprey charger, wouldn't accept contactless, couldn't remove the charge cable. Ionity worked fine, charge cable came out fine.
Gridserve wetherby, first charger went out of order as soon as I plugged in. Second charger the contactless didn't work. Each time, couldn't remove the cable. Third charger worked, charged at 45kW/h which was good seeing as by now it was -3. Stopped the charge at 85% cable came out fine.
So, to get to the chase. I now have little confidence the car won't do this again, so has anyone run for an extended period without the decorative cover on? I know people chuck boxes in there and use it as a frunk, I'm very tempted just to lob the cover in the garage (alongside the pointless filler from under the boot floor) and just put it back on before the car goes back.
Any thoughts?
Simon
Thanks.
