Where’s the charger cable ?

[simon Quinn]

Hi
I bought a 2nd hand MG SV electric a month ago. There were no cables supplied. After a lot of pleading I got the home charger. But while outside I needed to charge but I need the charge cable for service stations. Seems most charge points don’t have charge cables.
I was told by the sales guy - who I dealt with originally- that to reduce costs MG don’t supply any cables I was told ‘buy on eBay’. How cheap !!
Very rubbish service I’m afraid. Why don’t MG supply as standard.

 

[salty]

The salesman is correct unfortunately.
Simple, penny pinching. Personally think they should supply a Granny Charger as standard. They used to. At least that would get you up and running.

Oh and,

 

[JohnV6]

Well my zs ev i bought new this Jan came with both the cable and the granny charger.

I suspect buying secondhand they were removed to sell off on ebay etc

 

[Susanna]

@simon Quinn

AC public EVSE’s (chargers) require a type 2 cable, but DC EVSE’s always have a tethered cable, which is a much thicker, heavier cable to cope with the increased kw delivery. Much depends on how you plan to charge your car as to whether you need a type 2 cable.

My home EVSE has a tethered cable, and I very infrequently need to charge elsewhere. If I do, I will look for DC charging, as it’s so much quicker. In over 2 years of ownership, I have only used my type 2 cable once.

 

[Susanna]

@simon Quinn - just to add, MG’s certainly used to come with a ‘granny’ charging cable. This is the one with a 3 pin plug on the end, but will take quite some time to fully charge your battery. This charging cable should be located under the boot floor, along with a jack, tools and tyre inflating gunk in a moulded polystyrene holder.

 

[KrispiiDuck]

I bought mine new last September and it came with both granny and type 2 cable.

 

[popladdy]

I bought mine in December last year came with granny charger no type 2 but I told salesman that's no good so got one free along with ceramic coating (fancy polish?).
Second hand ones are cheap enough on Marketplace.

 

[DBedford]

Type 2 cable is normally a dealer'gift' option. Granny changer provided as part of the spec., but never used ours!

 

[MG Clive]

I also bought mine car used, and I had to blag a Type-2 cable off the Dealer, I also bought myself a Granny off ebay just in case my home charger ever fails.

So I now have 2 cables in nice MG bags.