Recent content by turntoport

this sounds rather like your car is 'self-limiting' the charge capacity to 80% by running the 'battery health mode/long journey mode' ternary battery life-preserver (i.e. as used for the Li-Cobalt battery versions found in the larger-capacity items on 'Long-range' mg4's); you will have seen this...

EFf EFf eS, keep up, nanny!?

*** = 'Fat Finger Syndrome', nanny!

Oops ***, sorry - yes, 7 hrs @6.7p currently (sorry!)

Yes, 7

only if the acceleration ('deceleration' if you prefer to not deal with negative values of acceleration) required (i.e. brake-pedal urgency) exceeds the traction available from the rear-wheels/motor. Actually, rear-wheel braking is in many ways better, as it aids line stability, reduces nosedive...

correct. But there are 'roos, wombats and quite a few other viscous creatures jumping out at you.

Holy sh!t. I'm still engaged in what nearly amounts to open warfare here. In the time i've spent 'communicating' with various MG folk to no avail, i could have mined the ore, smelted, cast, rolled, tempered, cut (hacksaw), drilled, cleaned, polished, plated (in my own made-up chem bath) and...

May i ask where did you get your car (undertray) fixed, Otterks?

Agreed. But still poor engineering practice. Even cheap countersunk hex would cost just a couple of cents more; countersinking the plate holes another couple of cents; cheapness for the sake of it always costs...

Still a 'cheapest possible' bodge, though - they haven't even used mushroom-head bolts/screws: using 2-cent hex on an undertray is just...ughhh.

How'd it go, DaevM?

Yeah, same sort of obfuscating/derisive/aggressive/ ignorance-pleading crap I've had for two years now, but after another month of phone calls+ visit to the dealer, no further forward. The original sale point dealer has agreed to 'look at it', though, while denying knowledge of any fix. While...

tried to get my 2-yr (from day 1) bendy scoopy tray booked in today. Strewth, what a fight. Obfuscation, ignorance, unwillingness. 0/10 for post-sales customer service, SAIC MG. A very good vfm ev ruined by absolutely crap service. May i ask you good folk which dealers have provided this fix...

yep it's just physics: The air passing the underfloor tray is somewhat accelerated by the 'venturi' effect of the form passing over it (hence F1 racing teams using skirty ground-hugging car bodies - see Mercedes recent porpoising cars...), so the actual 'speed' of the air passing the body is...