MG4 Restricted speed - weird

[siteguru]

They're not commonly known as Human Remains for no reason ? Their prime function is to protect the company, not the employees.

 

[bowfer]

Of course with salary sacrifice if you resign the car stays with the company…
Hey, it’s one way out!

 

[Mars6394]

My rejection is still on going week 11 now I’m upto.I’m being told they want to know who is liable and they never sold me the car with oil leaking you couldn’t make it up but I will fight it to the courts if need be.it ain’t even my car it’s finance company’s problem don’t let them tell you anything seek legal advice they will try to get out of anything so it’s doesn’t cost them and you are stuck with a faulty lemon car

 

[Alb]

Strictly speaking they may not have sold you a car with oil leaking. They did however sell you a car with an inherent fault that would cause it to leak early in your ownership. Sounds like they are just playing with words.

 

[richlove]

Thanks again for all the suggestions and feedback. Had another update yesterday.

It turns out that this part, apparently a £5,000 part, is no longer coming from China and is in stock with MG Beaconsfield. They have some bolts on order, though they're trying to decide if they can use the current bolts (!) and then they'll progress with the repair. Just hope the bolts aren't coming on a boat from China

They're letting me keep the current MG ZS courtesy car and they expect the repair to take a couple of days (once decided about the bolts)

I asked Tusker what would happen if this doesn't resolve it and they actually seemed willing to speak to MG about it being unreasonable to keep the car.

The guys at Tusker mentioned that MG Aftersales have been difficult to work with and have work to do to improve their service.

He also mentioned that MG may be making a gesture of goodwill. I asked him to clarify what this may be and he said it'd likely be something financial.

 

[Ian Key]

Thanks again for all the suggestions and feedback. Had another update yesterday.

It turns out that this part, apparently a £5,000 part, is no longer coming from China and is in stock with MG Beaconsfield. They have some bolts on order, though they're trying to decide if they can use the current bolts (!) and then they'll progress with the repair. Just hope the bolts aren't coming on a boat from China

They're letting me keep the current MG ZS courtesy car and they expect the repair to take a couple of days (once decided about the bolts)

I asked Tusker what would happen if this doesn't resolve it and they actually seemed willing to speak to MG about it being unreasonable to keep the car.

The guys at Tusker mentioned that MG Aftersales have been difficult to work with and have work to do to improve their service.

He also mentioned that MG may be making a gesture of goodwill. I asked him to clarify what this may be and he said it'd likely be something financial.

Sounds hopeful. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.
It's about time all of MG took some customer service training

 

[Mars6394]

Strictly speaking they may not have sold you a car with oil leaking. They did however sell you a car with an inherent fault that would cause it to leak early in your ownership. Sounds like they are just playing with words.

exactly my point which you have said there is a word in legal terms called reverse burden of proof (what they are trying to do) the car may have not been sold to me leaking but there is the proof of it leaking and the attempts to fix this issue which hasn’t resolved the issues.on a brand new car after 100 miles and ongoing for 7 months and 3 opportunities to fix is that reasonable in the eyes of a judge.garage had the car total of 1st fix 5 weeks 2nd fix 4weeks and is still leaking since oct2022 now in July 2023 great service.with great evidence of a independent engineers report on the leak also all the issues reported online it is faulty goods under consumer act .

 

[bowfer]

Thanks again for all the suggestions and feedback. Had another update yesterday.

It turns out that this part, apparently a £5,000 part, is no longer coming from China and is in stock with MG Beaconsfield. They have some bolts on order, though they're trying to decide if they can use the current bolts (!) and then they'll progress with the repair. Just hope the bolts aren't coming on a boat from China

They're letting me keep the current MG ZS courtesy car and they expect the repair to take a couple of days (once decided about the bolts)

I asked Tusker what would happen if this doesn't resolve it and they actually seemed willing to speak to MG about it being unreasonable to keep the car.

The guys at Tusker mentioned that MG Aftersales have been difficult to work with and have work to do to improve their service.

He also mentioned that MG may be making a gesture of goodwill. I asked him to clarify what this may be and he said it'd likely be something financial.

They offered me compensation, but the fault reoccurred so quickly any further discussion about that was forgotten and I moved onto rejection.

 

[zAndy1]

Is this still an issue on the latest MG4?

 

[Rolfe]

I would have said not, that everyone complaining about it had cars delivered in 2022, but then we got this.

MG4 Power Limiting

I recently picked up a MG4. While driving the car on motorway, I've found a good few times now that the car is limiting the power for acceleration. Eg: If I'm trying to speed up to overtake, the car simply won't accelerate even when I have the accelerator fully pressed down. The battery is above...

www.mgevs.com

That member has only posted three times and we don't have much detail about the car, but it sounds as if he hasn't had it long.

It probably wasn't the new model, I wouldn't think, but even so, if this is an intermittent fault that only affects a small percentage of cars (as it seems to be), and they have no idea what's causing it or how to fix it, I wouldn't bank on them having eliminated the problem for sure.

 

[zAndy1]

I would have said not, that everyone complaining about it had cars delivered in 2022, but then we got this.

MG4 Power Limiting

I recently picked up a MG4. While driving the car on motorway, I've found a good few times now that the car is limiting the power for acceleration. Eg: If I'm trying to speed up to overtake, the car simply won't accelerate even when I have the accelerator fully pressed down. The battery is above...

www.mgevs.com

That member has only posted three times and we don't have much detail about the car, but it sounds as if he hasn't had it long.

It probably wasn't the new model, I wouldn't think, but even so, if this is an intermittent fault that only affects a small percentage of cars (as it seems to be), and they have no idea what's causing it or how to fix it, I wouldn't bank on them having eliminated the problem for sure.

Thanks, just to clarify something, does it only affect a certain MG4 variant e.g. does it only affect the LR / Trophy and not the SE or is it an issue that can affect all models?

 

[Rolfe]

Bowfer's car, the one that has been the poster child for this issue, was an SE SR. He was convinced at one point that all SR cars would do it if they were thrashed a bit, but thankfully this does not appear to be the case. (On one drive I accidentally went up to 92 on the M74 when my battery was only about 25%, and on another I was able to overtake a slowcoach hitting 80 when I was only at 5%.) I think it has mainly been the SE SR that has shown this fault though.

I am not sure about LR or Trophy cars, but my feeling is it can affect anything. I still think it's a software fault, with some sort of limiter kicking in that's only meant to operate at very low SoC. But I could be completely wrong about that.

 

[BrownChair]

Having finally read through this entire thread. Wanted to document here that I'm also observing a power throttling/limiting issue. I just picked up the car this month, its a standard range, without the rear wiper model, manufactured in January.

In my case, I generally found that when accelerating, the power indicator for the car will go up to 50-60% and then suddenly drop down to 20-25%, all within 2-5 seconds. Depending on the battery charge percentage, I've noticed that the max power drops accordingly. Eg: using arbitrary numbers here but if the battery is at 40%, the car power was limited to 24% with the full acceleration. As the car battery dropped to 30%, the car power dropped to 22%. I've experienced power limit all the way to 18%. This is driving on a straight road with no hills. When the speed is down to 10-20 kmh, the car does let the power go above 18% but then after a few moments limited back down

 

[Rolfe]

You need to report this to your dealer ASAP. If you've not had it for more than 30 days, I'd be tempted to suggest you tell them that you know that this issue has cause hell's own trouble to other owners, and you don't want to touch it with a bargepole. If you can get out of the deal like that, it might be the best solution.

Then you get into giving them one chance to fix the issue, and we all know where that goes. More often than not it's repeated visits to the dealer and fixes that don't work. If it was something with a known fix and then you could be sure the car would be fine then it would be a different matter, but I don't think it is.

It's also interesting that you're getting the problem in warm weather. Bowfer's trouble was in winter and he speculated that low temperatures were exacerbating it, but that doesn't seem to apply to you.

Whatever, tell your dealer, and let them know you're very concerned about the issue and considering rejecting the car because of it. It's a hassle, but it's more hassle with this fault if you don't. Most cars don't do it, so you could easily buy another one if it's the MG4 you want.

 

[Mars6394]

Having finally read through this entire thread. Wanted to document here that I'm also observing a power throttling/limiting issue. I just picked up the car this month, its a standard range, without the rear wiper model, manufactured in January.

In my case, I generally found that when accelerating, the power indicator for the car will go up to 50-60% and then suddenly drop down to 20-25%, all within 2-5 seconds. Depending on the battery charge percentage, I've noticed that the max power drops accordingly. Eg: using arbitrary numbers here but if the battery is at 40%, the car power was limited to 24% with the full acceleration. As the car battery dropped to 30%, the car power dropped to 22%. I've experienced power limit all the way to 18%. This is driving on a straight road with no hills. When the speed is down to 10-20 kmh, the car does let the power go above 18% but then after a few moments limited back down

Mine did this back in December. Loss power and no acceleration very slow battery dropped from 75% to 10% in around 3 miles travel.they reflashed the battery firmware supposedly experienced it after they said it was fixed but I then rejected mine on several issues.

 

[bowfer]

You need to report this to your dealer ASAP. If you've not had it for more than 30 days, I'd be tempted to suggest you tell them that you know that this issue has cause hell's own trouble to other owners, and you don't want to touch it with a bargepole. If you can get out of the deal like that, it might be the best solution.

Then you get into giving them one chance to fix the issue, and we all know where that goes. More often than not it's repeated visits to the dealer and fixes that don't work. If it was something with a known fix and then you could be sure the car would be fine then it would be a different matter, but I don't think it is.

It's also interesting that you're getting the problem in warm weather. Bowfer's trouble was in winter and he speculated that low temperatures were exacerbating it, but that doesn't seem to apply to you.

Whatever, tell your dealer, and let them know you're very concerned about the issue and considering rejecting the car because of it. It's a hassle, but it's more hassle with this fault if you don't. Most cars don't do it, so you could easily buy another one if it's the MG4 you want.

I discounted cold weather as the issue pretty quickly.

 

[Mars6394]

I discounted cold weather as the issue pretty quickly.

My dealer said the same to me as it’s snowing and that o hadn’t charged it enough etc etc then it became a more wider known problem.glad to give the mg4 a wide birth

 

[squirrelz]

We've also just (last monday) bought a 72 plate car with this issue. Went back to the dealer with it yesterday, and they were able to see the problem. It's going in Friday to be looked at :/

 

[Deleted member 10041]

We've also just (last monday) bought a 72 plate car with this issue. Went back to the dealer with it yesterday, and they were able to see the problem. It's going in Friday to be looked at :/

I would imagine that is why the original owner got rid of it, probably more with this issue out there than we realise

 

[bowfer]

We've also just (last monday) bought a 72 plate car with this issue. Went back to the dealer with it yesterday, and they were able to see the problem. It's going in Friday to be looked at :/

The cynic in me can’t help thinking this car has been rejected because of this and the dealer is just hoping the next owner won’t notice.
If I were you I’d get rid of it right now, while you’re still within an easy time frame.

EDIT you could post the reg here, see if anyone recognises it as their rejected car