X Power 5000 miles. 🙂👍

[salty]

My X Power has just turned 5000 miles. In 8 months. And have to say it's been faultless. I realise I've probably been lucky, considering the problems some folk have had with there X Power/MG4s. Love this motor. Not had any dealings with the dealer yet, apart from the initial purchase, (obviously) 1st service September. So we'll see then.

A few gratuitous pics, (Any excuse)

 

[MG Clive]

Looking good there mate

 

[JonnyG]

Looking better than brand new with those great little mods

 

[Chrisdriving]

Nice one, mine has also been good software gremlins aside but i do notice a ‘something’ in the known speed zone at times.

 

[pjmmk]

Looks great! I can't get over how clean it is. Mine stays clean for a day if I'm lucky...

 

[salty]

Looks great! I can't get over how clean it is. Mine stays clean for a day if I'm lucky...

To be honest, think I'm bordering on OCD. And it's not as though I don't use it, coz I do. And I don't have a garage.
Always been like that.

 

[JonnyG]

^^^

me too ... neighbours and Mrs G think I'm mad

 

[lordsofthewaun]

My X Power has just turned 5000 miles. In 8 months. And have to say it's been faultless. I realise I've probably been lucky, considering the problems some folk have had with there X Power/MG4s. Love this motor. Not had any dealings with the dealer yet, apart from the initial purchase, (obviously) 1st service September. So we'll see then.

A few gratuitous pics, (Any excuse)

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I love the steering wheel trim Where did you get it? I want one for my orange Mg4

 

[salty]

I love the steering wheel trim Where did you get it? I want one for my orange Mg4

If you mean the Carbon Fibre trim. Got it from, MG Titan.
If you mean the Orange bit, 10mm Glossy
Orange tape, perfect fit.

 

[Wildthing]

Always enjoy your comments Salty, almost always upbeat and appreciative of what a fine car the Xpower is. But now going on 76 I've decided to sell one of my Les Paul guitars and reduce my PCP from 49 to 36 months max, mainly because I'm dissapointed in the range (would like to do a few more longer trips before I snuff it). We're told to make an 80% charge the norm but that really cuts things fine at times and I know that the tech is coming on leaps and bounds in China. So I reckon ranges will soon be three times that of the Xpower and that will of course mean our current cars will be damn near worthless, which will be a shame for such a fine car. To finish on a high note, right now there's nothing to touch the car for value and performance in the price bracket, and I still love it!

 

[Tuareg]

Why don't you charge to 100% if you need more range?

 

[Wildthing]

Well for reasons just stated we are told that for battery health we should only in general charge to 80% and quite honestly you don't get much more charging to 100. I've had the car 12 months now and initially the stated range charging to 100 was 214 in warm weather, but now even on warm days it never shows more than around 200 miles, so I put that down to degregation as I always charged to 100%. So after reading that doing that frequently is not good, I mainly only charge to 80%, does that answer your question? and in the winter I was lucky to see 178 miles which is pathetic, even running on ECO and drawling about behind the likes of Aygos and Honda jazz. In fact I found (like others have mentioned) that running on ECO seems to make very little difference, apart from the fact it feels like I'm driving with the brakes siezed on! This is the main reason I won't be keeping this car for more than another 2 years - or less.

 

[Tuareg]

So why don't you stop and top up your car with a quick charge on a DC charger for a few mins? You wouldn't drive a petrol/diesel car in 'eco' until you got home, you would go too it up at a gas station which would also take a few mins.

 

[Chrisdriving]

I doubt much actual degradation in a year, my Leaf is 9 years old now and Leaf’s are pretty well known for having poorer quality packs and that will still make the same range pretty much as when i got it new.
Agree it would be nice if the X Power had more range but the performance version of many ICE cars will not have the range of a milder version.
I was interested in the Trophy as well as X Power but chose X Power because of the enhanced looks and performance of course over the range it had compared to the Trophy.

 

[pjmmk]

Charging to 100% occasionally won't hurt your battery if you don't leave it for a long period. Charge it to 100% if you need the extra range and intend to drive it within a few hours. It'll be fine.

 

[Anon70]

for battery health we should only in general charge to 80% and quite honestly you don't get much more charging to 100

I have had my car for 530 days and driven just over 7600 miles. In that time it has been charged 136 times of which 107 charges were on AC, 29 on DC and it was charged to 100% 19 times. My best 100% range shown was 238 miles and the worst was 153 miles.

With an efficiency figure of 3 miles/kWh the extra 20% of charge between 80% and 100% should give you around 35 miles more range.

In my experience of longer drives I plan to travel between 100 and 150 miles between charge stops and a 20 to 30 minute stop adds another 100 to 150 miles of range. This pattern usually gives 2 hours of driving before a break which for me is a comfortable way to drive.

 

[Wildthing]

So why don't you stop and top up your car with a quick charge on a DC charger for a few mins? You wouldn't drive a petrol/diesel car in 'eco' until you got home, you would go too it up at a gas station which would also take a few mins.

I don't wish to continue this conversation which has now become an argument, other than to say that I am retired on state pension with limited funds so if I have to start using those ripoff fast charges I would have been better off keeping my old petrol car. Enough said I think.

 

[Tuareg]

no one is arguing, it's a simple discussion with valid questions.

 

[Wildthing]

I'm sorry and stand to be corrected. But like many others I succumbed to the super low finance deal on the XP which was not on offer for the Extended Range model. So now I'm over the euforia of blowing away all and sundry from lights I really wish I could have stretched to the ER, which of course is no slouch at around 5 seconds to 62 and now you still get the alcantara and big wheels ect. So for now I will make do with the Zappi and postpone any thoughts on a return to Scotland anytime soon. Ps, of course AWD was another factor, pulling out of our gravel driveway on to a fast A road is now a good deal safer.

 

[siteguru]

In the grand scheme of things, charging up at on-motorway services is no more expensive than refuelling a petrol car at off-motorway services. Use an open-to-all Tesla supercharger site and it's cheaper. Use on-motorway services to refuel a petrol car would be way more expensive. And don't forget your cheaper charging at home (and possibly at your destination) will bring journey costs down further.

All said and done, doing your Scotland jaunt in your EV will still be cheaper than doing it in a petrol car, as long as you plan.