Recent content by Amun

We've had ours for about five months now, and we think that it's superb. Lovely to drive, fast when you need it, very comfortable. Like most modern software driven cars, it has a couple of oddities, but luckily you can turn the worst offending safety features off and save the settings. When you...

Today we went to visit friends at 2pm and I must have forgotten to lock the car. When we came out just before six the car was still on - and because it had become dark all the lights were on. It doesn't seem to have caused a problem with the 12V battery, but I'm surprised that it didn't time out...

I have an S5 here which uses the Zappi charger to access IOG - works fine. Does the car accept a charge at all? The charger needs to be linked as the car is not IOG compatible. If you need a charge then you should be able to switch off IOG in the Octopus app and then use the car schedule to...

I had one on my MG5

But you can change the screen brightness for both lights on and lights off. I've just changed it to a dark theme and so far it seems the best compromise

I thought that the PHEV had an 8 gallon tank (37ltrs). If you're in EV mode then it runs the battery out before switching the engine on, unless you accelerate harder, in which case the engine will kick in. In HEV mode the battery works alongside the engine until it reaches 45-50 miles range...

Thanks for the confirmation.

What's the charge level on your battery?

Why not try RTFM ing? Tailgate Emergency Open Tailgate emergency open switch is located in the inner side of tailgate lock. Lower the rear seat to make sure the emergency open lockhole plug on the tailgate trim panel can be touched. Take up the plug with hand, and rotate the emergency open knob...

Don't know about fuse boxes, but the battery in our month old PHEV is in the boot.

I'm not denigrating the HS - we're very pleased with our PHEV. The speed recognition problems seem common in MGs - our MG5 used to be the same and our current MGS5 is a bit better, but not reliable. It may be better in towns, but we live rurally. I doubt that they're any better in other makes...

It seems that glass wearers can have the most problems - certainly it makes a huge difference in mine. It doesn't like my polarised sunglasses at all, but copes a bit better with my plain ones. Seems a total waste of time to me, so it's turned off every drive, along with the speed warning bongs...

Do you wear glasses for driving?

That's interesting - my new HS PHEV doesn't have this facility. Maybe there'll be a software update.

An update re car mats from MGTitan. They requested a photo of the front of my car, so I sent front, back and close up of the badge on the back. Within a few hours they came back, saying that they'd refunded my money. So I wouldn't deal with them again, but give them credit for their prompt refund.