Thoughts after 24 hours

[riocca]

Hiya, I picked my S5 up a week ago now and I must say that this is a significant step forward in terms of design, build quality, stability, less road noise, space...this list goes on. However, the DAB radio is hit and miss...more miss than hit...I initially thought that the aerial had not been connected and was going to contact the dealer to ask them to check it for me...you mentioned some DAB radio issues...have you experienced stations dropping in and out? Never had this problem with my previous MG ZS cars...

I’ve had the same experience with DAB reverting to the alternative FM station, I put it down to the aerial in the glass not being as good capturing a weak signal as the physical aerial on the ZS. That said I didn’t have a problem with the in glass aerial on my Mercedes GLA, probably will go back to the dealership when I have time to see if they can do anything about it.

 

[Delascas]

Hi @Sparqx Most DAB radios include a feature where they will switch over to the identical broadcast station in FM if the DAB signal fades out. It sounds counter-intuitive, but I found when I turned that feature off, the DAB drop outs improved - or improved back to the same dropout spots on the motorway as I had in my previous ID4 & Leaf. My guess is the software is being overly aggressive about jumping out of the DAB band. I forget what this toggle is called in the MG radio options, but it's there somewhere.

 

[Knuttt]

Your point 2.
The MG4, and I expect all the MG range has no regen in reverse.
Possibly because the current is going the wrong way.
I doubt a software update can fix this. I think there would need to be additional hardware to swap charging polarity.

We have a Honda e as well and I find the one pedal driving a bit of a pain when trying to reverse/park so typically turn it off for those manoeuvres.

 

[Gem Gem]

My car is two months old and I’ve never had DAB logos apart from a couple of the BBC stations.

But when I then change to Clyde or independent radio, the BBC logo stays on! ***.

The Weather app has never worked. Complete waste of screen space in my car anyway.

My software version is something like r33. I did ask the Chorley dealership to make sure it was at the latest version before I collected the car. From my general reading it seems like this version is 6-9 months old.

Again ***.

Likewise, I’ve never been able to put on the heating using the i smart app.

And the car has tried to kill me a couple of times because the road white lines meant it pushed me into the centre with oncoming vehicles!! so I had to use quite a lot of strength to keep the car to the left !!! And then both hands are fighting the steering.

I know it can be turned off, but 5% of the time I forget.

Ohhh and the travel plans and the other tab on that screen has also never worked. It gives some Javascript and computer code type of error message.

But also annoyingly, the car is not 3 phase AC . Therefore, I wasted £150 buying that type of cable. It means the maximum speed is around 6.2 kW on AC.

The plugs I use are generally 11 or 22 kW. When I researched the car, my trophy long range version was meant to have 11 kW.

Sigh.

 

[Ian Key]

My car is two months old and I’ve never had DAB logos apart from a couple of the BBC stations.

But when I then change to Clyde or independent radio, the BBC logo stays on! ***.

The Weather app has never worked. Complete waste of screen space in my car anyway.

My software version is something like r33. I did ask the Chorley dealership to make sure it was at the latest version before I collected the car. From my general reading it seems like this version is 6-9 months old.

Again ***.

Likewise, I’ve never been able to put on the heating using the i smart app.

And the car has tried to kill me a couple of times because the road white lines meant it pushed me into the centre with oncoming vehicles!! so I had to use quite a lot of strength to keep the car to the left !!! And then both hands are fighting the steering.

I know it can be turned off, but 5% of the time I forget.

Ohhh and the travel plans and the other tab on that screen has also never worked. It gives some Javascript and computer code type of error message.

But also annoyingly, the car is not 3 phase AC . Therefore, I wasted £150 buying that type of cable. It means the maximum speed is around 6.2 kW on AC.

The plugs I use are generally 11 or 22 kW. When I researched the car, my trophy long range version was meant to have 11 kW.

Sigh.

You might be better off posting this on the MG4 forum.

The steering pushing you into oncoming vehicles sounds like it hasn't had the SC07 update for the Lane Keep Assist

The 3 phase charging was only available on the early editions of the Trophy but as you say the car is only 2 months old it would never have been part of it's specification.

 

[salty]

My car is two months old and I’ve never had DAB logos apart from a couple of the BBC stations.

But when I then change to Clyde or independent radio, the BBC logo stays on! ***.

The Weather app has never worked. Complete waste of screen space in my car anyway.

My software version is something like r33. I did ask the Chorley dealership to make sure it was at the latest version before I collected the car. From my general reading it seems like this version is 6-9 months old.

Again ***.

Likewise, I’ve never been able to put on the heating using the i smart app.

And the car has tried to kill me a couple of times because the road white lines meant it pushed me into the centre with oncoming vehicles!! so I had to use quite a lot of strength to keep the car to the left !!! And then both hands are fighting the steering.

I know it can be turned off, but 5% of the time I forget.

Ohhh and the travel plans and the other tab on that screen has also never worked. It gives some Javascript and computer code type of error message.

But also annoyingly, the car is not 3 phase AC . Therefore, I wasted £150 buying that type of cable. It means the maximum speed is around 6.2 kW on AC.

The plugs I use are generally 11 or 22 kW. When I researched the car, my trophy long range version was meant to have 11 kW.

Sigh.

But apart from that, like it?