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I can set it through the app using the settings in icon on the charging section when it’s on charge. It saves it and says what mode it’s in (long range or battery care) but it just ignores the set limit and carries on charging.

Is it a SR LFP battery? Mine doesn’t stop if I set a limit on R21 or now on R33. I’m guessing it’s not really supposed to on that type even though the feature appears available and doesn’t work as it’s better for the LFP battery range estimation if you charge to 100%. You can’t set a limit on...

Well I’m fairly convinced it’s some sort of fault as I never get the blue lights now and the lights I get when unplugged keep changing. They were pink and green last time I looked and orange the time before. Whatever it is, the car charges fine on AC and I tried a fast charge just to check and...

My SE was updated to R33 to fix the missing outside temperature and one unexpected bonus is the rear parking sensors now display the distance to the object on the screen in centimetres. I’m really liking this feature as I find that the car always looks much closer to things out the back than...

Yeah, I think they updated more than just the infotainment, although they didn’t say that. Just that they noticed that the display was freezing and the update should fix that too. I’m actually really impressed with the service I was given. Took two weeks from asking for an update to getting...

Had a software update to R33 as my car didn’t have an outside temperature display. That is now working but it appears they may have updated more than just the infotainment. Before the update the car wouldn’t AC charge unless the car was locked even if you pressed “start charging” but I’d only...

There are no rear speakers in the Cupra Born and that starts at £37k!

All smart charging is at the cheap rate. You do not have to restrict yourself to over night charging. They just suggest you have the schedule end in the morning and tell you not to turn on the price cap. If you plug it in and Octopus schedule a charge outside of the cheap rate time period it...

It’s not as ugly in black! It’s weird to me how great they look from the front compared to the arse end. A review I watched said it was like two different people designed the car without talking to each other! To me that sums it up. Looks like a Lamborghini from the front and back looks like...

To be fair the Trophy looks good at night with the light bar. Mine looks okay if I squint really hard!

I’m afraid I’ll jinx it posting this but I’m really happy with my MG4 SE SR. Had an ID.3 as my first EV but sold it for a profit to buy a Curpa Born which turned out to be a total lemon. Decided to go for a base spec as I wanted the LFP battery and badge snobbery wouldn’t let me spend the...

Yeah, don’t expect I’d be happy if it was doing that! From my experience with new cars, if they are going to go wrong it normally happens within the first month. Poor radio sound quality and missing temperature readings is pretty good going so fingers crossed. The Cupra was in an out of the...

It sounds pretty normal to me. £5700 of the original price will be VAT that you lose the moment you collect the car and the value of a new car falls of a cliff the first two years and slows down in year 3 then much slower after that. If the GFV is £15000 then they are estimating less than 50%...

I’ve refrained from slagging my Curpa off in the Cupra forums because it was a lemon. I just got unlucky as far as I’m concerned but I do blame my service centre for being utterly useless. Heritage Gloucester, don’t buy a car from them! It seems they don’t understand you can spy on your car...

I don’t understand your terminology but I suppose if people had loads of problems in Norway or Finland they would say. Or maybe they don’t go for LFP or maybe they are better educated about electric cars so know all about preheating.

My local dealer didn’t put up a fight. I didn’t buy mine from them and the guy I spoke to said they normally charge for updates but said as it was a fault they wouldn’t. Mind you, they did have some customers in looking at a car and they probably overheard me telling them I’d just bought one...

The outside temperature is supposed to be on the top right of the central screen to the left of the Bluetooth icon. I only know about it because I googled it as I couldn’t find it. It’s a bug in two software versions the last of which mine has. The latest version fixes it and lets you turn off...

A queuing system. Petrol stations have a way in and a way out that forces a natural queue. EV chargers are often placed in a way that makes them a free for all and although that’s fine most of the time it’s horrible when it isn’t. Exeter Services on a bank holiday is extremely stressful. No...

The part about “The BMS degrades the LFP battery by following a schedule of -0.01%” is probably to do with the difficulty of determining the state of charge of an LFP battery. NMC battery SoC is calculated from the voltage but LFP batteries stay at around 3.7 volts no matter what the state of...

Hi, First post. I’ve recently purchased a new MG4 SE SR and I’m really impressed with it. My first EV was the ID3 and this car is definitely better than that. I then got a Curpa Born which was really nice but unfortunately I got a complete lemon. Heritage Gloucester were utterly useless and I...