What do you think is the cheapest feeling part of MG4

[MG Clive]

Nothing feels cheap to me to be honest. I'm very happy with it.

I agree with this, my Xpower feels really good quality all round, in every area it's better than the 2020 Polo it replaced, and I expect to keep it for several years.

So just as an example of the MG4 not feeling cheap, today I discovered that the rear door pull handles have got a little rubber mat at the bottom to hide the screw. This is an item that very few people will ever see or give any thought to, but MG obviously decided that the screw shouldn't be seen, now that's not an example of cheap, or penny pinching, I think it's the right thing to do, and it's proper quality.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

So just as an example of the MG4 not feeling cheap, today I discovered that the rear door pull handles have got a little rubber mat at the bottom to hide the screw. This is an item that very few people will ever see or give any thought to, but MG obviously decided that the screw shouldn't be seen, now that's not an example of cheap, or penny pinching, I think it's the right thing to do, and it's proper quality.
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Oh! you mean that thing underneath all the sweet wrappers, coins and dog fluff! Careful with the vacuum cleaner????

 

[MG Clive]

Oh! you mean that thing underneath all the sweet wrappers, coins and dog fluff! Careful with the vacuum cleaner????

Yes that'll be it, luckily I don't have kids, dogs, or money.

 

[Ian Key]

Yes that'll be it, luckily I don't have kids, dogs, or money.

I was trying to work out if you haven't got kids or dogs, why haven't you got any money. Then I realised....wife

 

[MG Clive]

I was trying to work out if you haven't got kids or dogs, why haven't you got any money. Then I realised....wife

Ahh, you must have one too.

 

[Ian Key]

Ahh, you must have one too.

No. But I have two retired greyhounds.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

No. But I have two retired greyhounds.

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Look at the state of your lawn!!!!! you need to contact Salty for some remedial work.

 

[kiwi]

The radio is terrible. Really really bad. So much so I’d say it essentially doesn’t work on FM. Of course there is no AM but ignoring that the tuner is useless. I listen to weaker LPFM stations and even though I have them as favourites, the radio won’t present them if it thinks they’re too weak to listen to. Never mind if I want to listen to them, the radio has decided and you can’t select them.

Of course I can manually tune them in every time I want to listen. How useless is that? And have you tried tuning while driving with the stupid dial scale paradigm?

Remember simple push button tuning radios from the 60s and 70s? Well this box of tech is way worse than that. It a radio designed by software programmers who have never used a real radio.

The auto tuning RDS AF mode doesn’t work properly either.

I’m going to break out the jigsaw and cut a hole on the dash to fit an aftermarket Sony. I’m that sick of it.

Did I mention the radio is useless?

 

[salty]

The radio is terrible. Really really bad. So much so I’d say it essentially doesn’t work on FM. Of course there is no AM but ignoring that the tuner is useless. I listen to weaker LPFM stations and even though I have them as favourites the radio won’t present them if it thinks they’re too weak to listen to. Never mind if I want to listen to them, the radio has decided and you can’t select them.

Of course I can manually tune them in every tome I want to listen. How useless is that? And have you tried tuning while driving with the stupid dial scale paradigm?

Remember simple push button tuning radios from the 60s and 70s? Well this box of tech is way worse than that. It a radio designed by software programmers who have never used a real radio.

The auto tuning RDS AF mode doesn’t work properly either.

I’m going to break out the jigsaw and cut a hole on the dash to fit an aftermarket Sony. I’m that sick of it.

Did I mention the radio is useless?

Funny how different folk have totally different opinions. (which is good).
I find my Radio is fine. And in my opinion sounds great.

 

[Tuareg]

Yep, my FM is very good. We don't have DAB here. I also bought an AA bluetooth dongle, been great and never needed to touch it sisnce I plugged it into the USBA socket. A very occasional disconnect for a few seconds but that's AA not M, my friend gets the same on several of the cars he's had/has, seems to be an AA feature but 99% of the time work great and way more than enough for me.

 

[kiwi]

@salty @Tuareg the MG4 radio sounds fine, it doesn’t work fine.

It’s the user interface that’s daft.

Try these tests from simple to more complex:

Select 107.1 MHz while driving.

Save a frequency with a station, then drive to the edge of the station’s coverage area and try to recall that frequency from favourites.

Save a networked station with RDS AF (Alternate Frequency to facilitate auto tuning) drive through an area with no coverage for a bit and then into an area with coverage but on a new frequency. Does the RDS AF recover?

As above but drive into an area where one of the RDS AF network frequencies has unrelated station with a different PI (Program Identification). While you listen to your wanted network, the radio interrupts the program by switching to the unrelated station every minute or so.

Even with the RDS faults, if you could simply choose stored frequencies I wouldn’t complain.

The radio picks up weaker stations fine but won’t let you recall them from favourites and doesn’t display the selection.

I drive 150km per day and listen to news radio (BBC, RNZ, etc). If you listen to one strong local station you won’t have a problem.

 

[salty]

To be honest all that sounds a bit to complicated to me. I always try to simplify things as much as I can. I've got 3 favourite stations tuned in, and saved. One particular station, which I play most of time. And that's it. Simple's. Works for me.
Do you think yours is faulty?

 

[Kithmo]

To be honest all that sounds a bit to complicated to me. I always try to simplify things as much as I can. I've got 3 favourite stations tuned in, and saved. One particular station, which I play most of time. And that's it. Simple's. Works for me.
Do you think yours is faulty?

I don't think so, mine's the same. The DAB signal is poor and both DAB and FM sometimes lose the signal in weak areas or underground car parks and doesn't regain it when I come out of these areas without restarting the car.