Recent content by TimBA

Donington Park was August and slightly warmer, which may explain both cars drawing higher rates. At Cobham, the other MG5 plugged in after me; at Donington the other one started well after me as I had to help him with the Gridserve App. In both cases both cars will have been at the same ambient...

I've thought the same about mine. After the update in Dec 23 I've been convinced charging speeds are lower, but couldn't find a way to confirm this, until I found myself on three occasions charging next to an identical model and year MG5. On all three occasions the other car was drawing a higher...

Thanks for your reply. I'm very grateful as it nudged me into action. tl;dr - it works. Not living anywhere near a Tesla SC and believing the software update I had done in Dec 23 hadn't included it I'd never actually tried one as I didn't want to waste time on a long journey. But last weekend I...

It's a LR, so has the correct EVCC unit. The software update that I am sure crippled the charge rate was applied in Dec 23 so before the 'Tesla' update was released (Jan 24).

71 (pre-FL) Asked to have the EVCC update done at Glyn Hokpin, Chelmsford. They said there were no updates showing as required and they couldn't just apply one without it appearing on the diagnostic check. In related news an update 12 months ago at Tolley's, Colchester, seems to have crippled...

Max charge rate for the MG5 is currently stated as 80kW. I don't expect to see this, hence the 92 was a one off surprise. But nothing more than 60 at 30% on a warm day seems well below spec. I've not seen any comments suggesting MG have applied a reduced maximum charging limit in any software...

Since a software update in Dec 2023 my pre-FL LR now charges at a noticeably slower rate than before. It's taken a while to evidence this as there are so many factors relating to charging speeds but recently, on three occasions, I've charged alongside identical model MG5s at multi charger...

It was an MG service centre that said no updates required. The worry is that they 'won't find anything' when I know my car has suffered from reduced charging speed since the last update. (I have evidence but won't bore you with it here!) Thanks for the encouragement to persist.

Glyn Hopkin Chelmsford say that unless a fault shows up they can't apply any software updates and that therefore my late 21 MG LR must have had all updates applied (but it hasn't!). This sounds suspicious to me but there's no way to challenge it. Their advice is to contact MG Customer Service...

On my pre-FL LR I'm not sure it makes a difference. With the temperature at 4C and the car on my drive in 'Ready' mode, switching the battery heating on made no observable difference to the current draw of c.2A On a recent road trip in consistent 4C weather I tried with battery heating on prior...

Just booked mine in for diagnostic test. Service guy said he thought it wouldn't work below 5C. I don't have much faith in their level of awareness on this!

Same here. Did you ever get a fix for this? Sounds like I may have to get the car back to the dealer.

Thanks for all the replies so far, and for confirming my suspicion about the ‘interference’ thing.

I've been considering fitting a dash cam to my Mk1 5LR. When I mentioned this at the service desk of the MG dealer they advised against it because they said it might interfere with the operation of the lane keep & CC functions in the mirror mount. I think they implied some sort of radio...

I was surprised to get 92kW from the new bank of Gridserve chargers at M4 Reading eastbound about 4 weeks ago. (Pre FL LR)