Recent content by simonplayspiano

Hastings Direct - declined Direct Line - declined.... What is going on? I'm 55, never had an accident, no points - it must be the car. I wonder if this is a general fear of insuring electric vehicles, or is it just this particular mad model?

Hi gang. Any help / suggestions gratefully received. I insured my MG4XPower with Hastings last year when the car arrived. It cost me an annual fee of £450. They have just written to say they are not able to offer me a renewal quote and so won't be insuring me going forward. I've done a quick...

I get the same problem ALL THE TIME with my Xpower. The electronics are absolute dogshit on this car. My Bluetooth connection works 1 out of every 10 times I’d say. When it does connect, I won’t hear any sound (yes it’s playing) until I flip across to radio and then back again. Apple play...

Thanks - unfortunately no ideas there. I have already got carplay setup on my phone, no restrictions. I think it must be the cable as the message appears for a split second and then drops off.

Thank you @johnnyg - I have just ordered the air compressor from Amazon! Wonderful! hi @tsedge - I plugged my iphone into the left hand USB port. I got a message on the phone saying something about allow/disallow but it only appears for a split second and then is gone - and nothing. The phone...

Brilliant - thank you for the input! That's really helpful!

Great - thank you @JonnyG - I don't suppose I could trouble you for a link to said USB Tyre inflator?

I'd love to learn how you're getting on with apple carplay, I've never used it before and I assumed you had to be physically connected in order for it to work - but it sounds like you've found a way around this? Could you let me know if it works and send me a link to the device you purchased...

I find these conversations about power / speed quite entertaining. I've had mine for 5 months now and have used the 'launch control' once. I've never even driven it in sport mode. It's ridiculously fast - for most traffic and road conditions - without the need for any additional power...

Hi folks. I've had my Xpower for 5 months now. For obvious reasons (the built in sat nav is crap and out of date already), I need to use my phone whilst driving for Waze & spotify. Until now I've been relying on bluetooth connection for the music, but find that the reliability of the...

middle button on the light cluster above your head. It's a bit counter-intuitive because you'd expect the button to be on by default. But it isn't. You need to push the button in to the 'on' position for it to be activated by the doors.

This is interesting. When I got the MG I obviously only paid a few quid to 'upgrade' my remaining policy. So as the renewal has now come through, I can see the impact on a full year quote for both cars. Policy is from Tesco Insurance. Last year my policy was £383.87 - now for the MG it's...

Just to let you know, I emailed [email protected] and although it took about a week, they finally responded and it's now working.

I've not been able to use the app for more than 2 weeks now. It worked perfectly for the first couple of weeks, now just says 'app unavailable, please try later'. Deleted the app, reinstalled, won't login. Mine is going to the dealer next week to have them look at the brakes which are...

Ditto here. First frost. Not particularly bad, all the warnings. Everything disabled. Absolutely ridiculous. A car that disables its safety features whenever there’s a frost seems ludicrous to me.