Turn off lane assist?

It can't be turned off permanently, only each time you wish to drive. Press the Car icon, select the MG Pilot tab (if not default selected), scroll down if necessary and turn LKA off. Make sure the car is in the READY state first else it won't work - you'll know it's worked because you'll get a Confirm message when turning it off.

Maggie! I love it!

This is discussed in numerous threads on the forum, so much so that I hesistate to link you to any particular thread. Some people think it's OK and even find it useful, others hated it but believe it was improved in their cars after a software update, and still others (including me) think it is the spawn of Satan and turn it off routinely every time they get in the car.

See what @siteguru said about pressing the brake first to get the car in "Ready" before you turn it off, because if you don't, it tricks you into thinking it's off then sneakily turns back on again. The way you know it's off is that the LKA icon in the top left of the driver's screen is yellow/orange. If you see that icon white the system is active and you need to go in and deactivate it again. If you get that "Are you sure?" message and confirm yes, then it's usually off.

In some Trophies it will turn itself back on again if the central screen flips between light and dark modes, but the SE doesn't do that.

ETA: Here's a thread you might find interesting.

Rolfe said:

In some Trophies it will turn itself back on again if the central screen flips between light and dark modes, but the SE doesn't do that.

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As a professional software engineer this literally terrifies me into NOT looking at an MG.

These two systems should NEVER interact and bug out together.

Not buying one.

Yes that terrible idea of having to deactivate LKA has put me off ever buying an MG 4. My MG ZS EV is great. You turn off LKA the day you take delivery of the car and it remains turned off permanently, unless, of course, you decide, for some strange reason, to turn it on again.

Unless you find LKA a non issue and simply leave it on, as I have done since new.

I question the authenticity of someone who doesn't own an MG, yet takes time out of their day to complain about a car they say they'll never own. Smells like a troll.

Yep, agree, his 1st post on the forum slating the brand. I've pointed out quite a few very similar posts, always their 1st and often their last. The moderators don't seem to be very savvy on this issue.

Tuareg said:

Yep, agree, his 1st post on the forum slating the brand. I've pointed out quite a few very similar posts, always their 1st and often their last. The moderators don't seem to be very savvy on this issue.

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Yeah I’ve noticed a few first time posters, always negative, responding to very old threads, not adding anything. I guess it’s hard to determine if someone is genuine or not in these cases, it’s not clearly spam and they might be genuinely new and have a complaint, but I agree with your observations

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I question the authenticity of someone who doesn't own an MG, yet takes time out of their day to complain about a car they say they'll never own. Smells like a troll.

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The guy said he has a ZS

TC guy said:

Yes that terrible idea of having to deactivate LKA has put me off ever buying an MG 4. My MG ZS EV is great. You turn off LKA the day you take delivery of the car and it remains turned off permanently, unless, of course, you decide, for some strange reason, to turn it on again.

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That's because your ZS EV is pre the latest NCAP regulations and therefore doesn't have the latest safety features. It's debatable whether these safety features are necessary but for the manufacturers to get a 5 star safety rating they have to have them.

All cars new to the market will have LKA in some form or other and will have to default to on.

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The guy said he has a ZS

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venq said:

As a professional software engineer this literally terrifies me into NOT looking at an MG.

These two systems should NEVER interact and bug out together.

Not buying one.

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I'm talking about this person

I'm going to be honest I agree with our first time poster. I worked as a software dev / tester (in aviation) for 13 years (I'm now a product integrity engineer...part of the team that stops the swiss cheese holes lining up). Those two functions; one that affect the operation of the vehicle and one that affects the aesthetics should not interact in that way. If the colour of the switch is changed, e.g. flipping from night / day or dark / light, the position of the switch (its function) should be called up from the object that controls the functionality (which should ideally be in a separate package). The package that sets the colours (aesthetics) should never set the switch position or call it to be returned to default (on in the case of MG4's). Its bad software design at best.

With modern cars that offer a lot of functionality the software makes or breaks a car and its the only reason that if somebody asks me if the '4 is a good car I can't say yes.

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I'm talking about this person

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I'm talking about this person

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Sorry, I thought you were replying to the previous post

Regarding any LKA 'issues', which I haven't experienced, there's a software update that came out a month ago for those that are over sensitive to modern auto features such as this. Far too much over analysis of the software features on modern cars that more often than not the issue isn't the software but user error and owner's trying to be clever and 'out think' the manufacturer and of course when failing miserably never admitting they were well out of their depth in doing so, first call was to slag off the manufacturer.

Sure in some instances user error can play a part but humor me:

• What is the user error when the system flips from night to day and resets the functions you have turned off (unless the manual explicitly states this is expected behavior)?
• What is the user error when the car refuses to lock and power off when you get out of it and spends two weeks at the dealership for them to sort it (or indeed unlock and trap you in the car)?
• What is the user error where upon power up you get a raft of system failures that mean you have to get out of the car lock it to power it down and then unlock it to (hopefully) clear them, but leave "no fault found" in the logs?

I accept that cars aren't really made for people that enjoy driving any more, they are white goods to get from a-b, dumbed down to protect the lowest possible denominator of driving ability (no I do not pretend to be some sort of driving god...I have made mistakes and I dare say will again at some point).

I love technology where it is actually useful to me and to be useful it has to serve a purpose. For example I have spent the past couple of months removing the vacuum driven instruments from my aircraft and replacing them with a single electronic flight information system. Technology that works, is useful (one stop reference for attitude, heading (GPS driven) and backup airspeed and altitude as well as saving several kilos in weight.

There is no need to defend flaws to defend something you like. I love my Condor, its a fabulous aircraft to fly and suits me pretty much perfectly. However, like most 70's aircraft of its type the brakes are bloody dreadful, no amount of bleeding them or fitting good quality brake shoes will help that, only eventual replacement with modern disk brakes will.

As I said I'm a Product Integrity Engineer and I would not put my signature on approvals for this car.

I turned my LKA onto alert only and its never bothered me since...

I just had my car serviced and the recall update was carried out, and now it seems that LKA is virtually warning only, not much steering input at all, but the bleep is still annoying on longer runs so I'll still be disabling it.

Never quite understood what was wrong with (which of course gave vibration feedback during the day)

My car went in to dealer on Monday (for an unrelated fault) and they did the LKA update.
What a difference!! I feel it is actually beneficial to have it activated now, whereas before it was bordering on dangerous sometimes. The yank on the wheel is just a gentle nudge now, and it bleeps to alert (don't think it did that before, but in fairness I got used to always turning it off), and it is inoperable when indicating- just as it should be.
Well done MG...