Hi
Once the fob (or Bluetooth key) have been detected, the car should drive until you go in to park. You wouldn't want the car to stop while moving or even fail to pull away from the lights, just because the key was no longer seen by the car.
When I had problems last week with my battery going almost flat and had to get the AA out, I drove to the MG dealer and on the way noted my windscreen wipers were misaligned after the snow and ice and were not working properly. I was almost there so carried on with, fortunately, no visibility problems!With the kind of problems you’re having with your MG4. That wait until April 7th is absolutely scandalous. I would be down to the dealers, in person pronto. And it would be sorted. And I wouldn't be paying £180 either. You can't be afraid to drive you car, for fear of it, shutting down at anytime. At busy junctions etc. Suprising what a visit in person can do. And particularly (no offence) when they are aware of your age.
I personally use the handbrake switch next to the rotary knob when stationary for longer than a few seconds. The car remains in drive mode, but unlike auto hold, it turns the brake lights off, (or mine does anyway, I tested it in my drive
). I find it quite blinding when all the brake lights are lit up waiting at traffic lights etc.Call out the AA.
I love my MG4 and 30,000 kms on it has been fault free. What I hate is the common issue it seems many have faced in the total rubbish and hit and miss service from MG dealerships. This unfortunately will likely be the single thing that prevents me buying my car at end of lease and likely not buying another MG. A recent example was trying to get a simple answer to service interval requirements. This you would have thought a simple question for a dealer to answer. I got so many different responses mostly that it needs servicing every 10,000kms!! To avoid loss of warranty. I resorted to using the online request to MG for an answer which is the recommended method to get an answer from MG. I even used the chat bot in addition to asking the question. In both cases I was advised I would get an answer from MG. 3 weeks later no response, no email, no phone call, even though I had supplied all forms they could contact me on. Doesn't bode well for more serious issues when they can't answer a basic question such as this and their in country dealer network can't either.. I actually found the information in the online manual (I couldn't find the hard copy manual) via the phone app. Simple to locate and I rang the dealers back and trained them on the service interval and how to advise a customer where to locate it.He managed to get it going, both times. So the AA not necessary on those occasions. But yep, if all else fails, the AA it is. The real problem is the MG dealer, not sorting it out, as a matter of emergency.
Long waits appear to be a too-common occurrence. I was contacted mid-December by my dealer in Portsmouth to inform me it was time for my yearly service. I contacted them and the earliest they could book me in was mid February so I agreed. 2 days later they contacted me to tell me they'd made a mistake and it would now be mid-March but not to worry, it was still within the required warranty date. Again, but reluctantly I agreed. A week later I had a warning light appear (yellow triangle with black exclamation mark) which worried me as there was no guide to what the problem was. I contacted the dealer and asked if they could investigate so that I would know if the car was safe to drive. They agreed and said they would take a look.......at the end of March, which would be after the already late service. I said that wasn't good enough so they gave me an emergency number to phone. That number turned out to be the AA. The man from the AA said he'd come across this before and that the car should be OK to drive as it was only a yellow warning.
You don't have to use the same dealer for servicing that you bought the car from. So you can still go elsewhere for servicing.
