Recent content by unbornidentity

They keep moving the goal posts and some legislation only applies to cars designed or built after a certain cutoff date. I think (though I’m not sure) cars with a single button to turn LKA off have to be held down for several seconds. All new cars sold in the EU from a date last year had to...

That’s what I can’t stand about these advanced safety systems. They have to default to on and have to be made so they can’t quickly be turned off but aren’t actually ready yet technologically. It’s legislation and NCAP requirements being introduced before the technology really exists. I hate...

Mine wasn’t too bad before the recall either and was far less aggressive than my SE was. It’s much more gentle when it pulls you back now. I think it is linked as they mentioned something about speed recognition getting an update too.

It’s probably the LKA recall (they did mine), though hopefully you’ll have more luck with vibes than me.

Thanks ilukey

Yeah, it’s no wonder they are trying to get out of it 🙁

The dampers are on now and it’s improved it to the point that if I wasn’t already aware of the problem I would probably think it was just tyre tread or something like that and wouldn’t have thought to take it in under warranty. At 69 mph and 75 mph it’s more noticeable than any other speed but...

You are right and I’ll probably reject it. I’m still going to let them fit the dampers though as I had an interesting conversation with my brothers best mate who was a mechanic for a Volvo main dealer. He said Volvo use dampers a lot and fit them to deal with vibration problems that are hard to...

The justification to themselves is that it isn’t dangerous and won’t cause something else to fail. If they all did it and they advertised it as a feature then it would be fair enough. It’s a fault though, we know it and they do! The funny thing is they lent me a Mokka e and if anything would...

Got the car back. It was wishful thinking 🙁 The technician confirmed it does what I said, ruled out problems with suspension, steering or wheel balancing (didn’t know it was in for dampers) reported it back to MG as a warranty request and got the ‘characteristic’ response back. They didn’t...

Mine went in today. Had a bit of a list of things I’ve noticed since but nothing major other than the vibe and I noticed it turns left with the wheel centred and has to be about 5 degrees right of centre to go in a straight line (which I suspect is related as the car doesn’t pull left). It’s...

Getting them to swap it for another one would be my preference. I’ll certainly try for that.

Sorry, I didn’t take what you said the wrong way if it came across like that. I was agreeing with you that I don’t see how dampers can fix it.

Yeah, I know 🙁 I’m not a mechanic but my much older brother is and I’m very technically minded. I’ve got a private pilot’s licence and work in the nuclear industry. I’m not saying that to big myself up, but it’s pretty obvious the cause of the problem is not something a steering damper will...

I’m hopeful the dampers work if it doesn’t already have them. It does seem like a lottery though reading through here. Both having the problem in the first place and the dampers working. On my car it’s far more noticeable when it has started and you plant the accelerator. The frequency...