If you are talking about Hill Descent Control, I think is meant for very steep hills at very low speeds, like off road stuff. I’m not sure it’s applicable to normal road driving
I would definitely assume so, HDC is usually only working at very low km/h resp. mph.
As it was a lovely day today we took a trip to the seaside.
Along the way we use a steep climb and descent (Dinas Mawddwy).
We managed to get a few videos of the cars performance.
The first shows a comfortable drive to the start of the climb followed by a very loud engine and revs around 3800-4000.
The second shows a small climb out of Dollgellau where revs approach 4400.
The third is the return journey and shows a transit van with trailer overtaking me as my car refused to accelerate. It also shows it change to EV mode on the descent but when it leaves EV (still on the descent) it revs to 4000. (3800 on video but YouTube only allows 3 minutes videos).
Perhaps all the videos show is how the car is supposed to perform but in my opinion this part of our drive was horrible, noisy and quite stressful.
Other than this we had a lovely day out.
Stop complaining. Grow your hair long (wig if not possible), load the car up with guitars and amplifiers, smoke something dubious and imagine your in The Who on your way to play some dive underground club, just when they were starting out. Embrace the revs!!!Hi Noel & Robert,
Thanks for your comments.
I will forward the videos to my dealer and ask them to send them to MG for their views.
I planned on keeping this car for several years (until state pension age - 6 years) but I doubt the engine will make it until then so I'm going to explore my right to return it under the Sale of Goods Act. Not holding out much hope + I've driven 4000 miles in it now.
I did set the screen to show mpg but it inexplicably reverts to the basis screen whilst driving.
However, across the whole journey my mpg is pretty good - about 55 if I recall correctly. My wife did notice whilst going uphill, with over-revving, the 'miles until refill gauge' drops dramatically.
Since the PD052 update (and warmer weather) my mpg has increased significantly and the car goes into EV mode a lot - which is great. But the over-revving is now worse and can suddenly occur on straight flat roads - notably, but not always, before going into EV mode.
I may try and release the videos "globally" on YouTube to highlight the issues and get more opinions.
“Stop complaining. Grow your hair long (wig if not possible), load the car up with guitars and amplifiers, smoke something dubious and imagine your in The Who on your way to play some dive underground club, just when they were starting out. Embrace the revs!!! It’s a characteristic of the car!”Hi Noel & Robert,
Thanks for your comments.
I will forward the videos to my dealer and ask them to send them to MG for their views.
I planned on keeping this car for several years (until state pension age - 6 years) but I doubt the engine will make it until then so I'm going to explore my right to return it under the Sale of Goods Act. Not holding out much hope + I've driven 4000 miles in it now.
I did set the screen to show mpg but it inexplicably reverts to the basis screen whilst driving.
However, across the whole journey my mpg is pretty good - about 55 if I recall correctly. My wife did notice whilst going uphill, with over-revving, the 'miles until refill gauge' drops dramatically.
Since the PD052 update (and warmer weather) my mpg has increased significantly and the car goes into EV mode a lot - which is great. But the over-revving is now worse and can suddenly occur on straight flat roads - notably, but not always, before going into EV mode.
I may try and release the videos "globally" on YouTube to highlight the issues and get more opinions.
Just a thought… is it worth test driving a few other hybrids on the same route. See how they respond to the hills. If they don’t rev nearly as bad, then you have more evidence to throw at MG UK.Hi Noel & Robert,
Thanks for your comments.
I will forward the videos to my dealer and ask them to send them to MG for their views.
I planned on keeping this car for several years (until state pension age - 6 years) but I doubt the engine will make it until then so I'm going to explore my right to return it under the Sale of Goods Act. Not holding out much hope + I've driven 4000 miles in it now.
I did set the screen to show mpg but it inexplicably reverts to the basis screen whilst driving.
However, across the whole journey my mpg is pretty good - about 55 if I recall correctly. My wife did notice whilst going uphill, with over-revving, the 'miles until refill gauge' drops dramatically.
Since the PD052 update (and warmer weather) my mpg has increased significantly and the car goes into EV mode a lot - which is great. But the over-revving is now worse and can suddenly occur on straight flat roads - notably, but not always, before going into EV mode.
I may try and release the videos "globally" on YouTube to highlight the issues and get more opinions.
We heard you the first time lol
. But trying to be more positive I've achieved 56.5 mpg over the last 818 miles.
It does that when it recognises that you are behaving according to surrounding traffic.
It doesn't switch screens without an obvious reason. It only does so when the lane assist system intervenes, which overrides the current display. So whenever you drive too close to another lane, it switches to the car view—where the intervention is indicated by a change in the color of the lane marking (either left or right).
). Of course, it would be better if users were given the option to choose whether they want the screen to return to the default view. However, I assume this decision was driven by safety concerns, both due to legal requirements and a certain overzealousness on the part of car/device manufacturers — for example, speed limit alerts, lane keeping assist, or seatbelt warnings.
was actually trying to post another comment and seemed to manage to post same again. Just edited.
