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The extreme reactions EV's tend to provoke in people still shocks me on occasion, some are bizarrely angry at the mere suggestion of the things :confused: I never evangelize, and we still have a Toyota Yaris petrol in our household, yet a dear friend told me I was a mug for 'buying into this...

That is pretty odd. Have only checked mine a couple of times after B Nyland mentioned that the SE he tested was 2.5% out IIRC. Mine did seem to be 2% pessimistic on the 2 occasions I compared with the google maps distance. One thing's sure, the WLTP figures really are nonsense , as is the car's...

Did a mini 'Bjorn Nyland' today, just to see what would happen below zero % zero miles on my SE standard. Well, it didn't stop but I only pushed it around 1.5 miles before I bowed out and headed for the safety of my driveway ? So it definitely has at least a few hundred watt hrs below zero but I...

Yuk. Look like a prototype someone knocked up in their shed, the original 17's look quite pretty in comparison.

Rationalize it by all means but the truth is manufacturers ( and nannying legislation) are making the car / driver interaction poorer every year IMO. It's about saving money on build cost and aping this infernal minimalist interior trend started by Tesla. I don't like it and I'm too stuck in my...

As with the 2015 car I traded in. Didn't realise how much I'd miss that simplicity. We're all going to have to get used to it though, stabbing at laggy touchscreens on our bouncy roads while lane keep tries to kill you is the new motoring norm apparently :oops:

A decent body guy will straighten that wing, they're paper thin. I managed to put a shallow dent in mine and literally pushed it back out with my fingers :oops: Can't see any evidence of it now. The paint has reached its elastic limit on your one though, crack spreading from the main impact...

It is damn annoying, mostly because it's utterly pointless. Gets on my nerves every time I stop to let a passenger in and the poor soul tugs on the door handle because I've forgotten about the auto lock yet again. I've tinkered around with the car since delivery and managed to solve a few of...

Yeah, looks par for the course re the MG 4. Haven't looked at my bulge in a while but I lessened it greatly by clamping it with a bit of flat aluminium secured by the existing screws. Shouldn't have to of course, but I just can't see MG being helpful with this. As I think I've said before, the...

The entire front bumper comes off really quite easily, took mine off to install home made lower air intake covers in the cold weather to improve aero :) They do seem to use that soft as toffee grey plastic all over the car, inside and out. It does not wear well, dog and 9yr old daughter have...

Pearl black on my one too. Bird poop I left for a couple of days did leave a 'shadow' in the clearcoat. Stone chips on the bonnet, roof, and a nasty one on the drivers door which left a slight dent :oops: Not impressed with the paint quality, very thin steel too I think.

Yep, tens of thousands of cars need to be recalled I think, can't see SAIC doing that unless forced to.

It is a little fiddly. You'll need to get a slim plastic trim tool down the back edge and probably lever it gently up with a small screwdriver as anything plastic wont have the strength required. I put tape along the edge of the dash panel to avoid marks, the 'hard' plastics in the fours'...

Somewhere back in this thread, yes. :)

A partial cycle doesn't degrade the cells like a full cycle no. With LFP for instance, cycling in the middle 50 % will double the lifespan, not sure if that's applicable to all chemistries but it would possibly be in that ball park. With my SE SR, I tend to go for a middle ground and keep it...

The need for a speedo to never under-read is understandable, not sure if there are any laws regarding odo accuracy though.

Wow, that's quite a discrepancy if it's accurate. Don't think my one is that far out but I have always felt that it was being modest with mileage. In the decent heat today I recorded a surprising 5.6 miles / kWh after a moderately sedate 35 mile run on mainly B roads, a genuine 6 seems to be on...

Well yes, how it's made and the quality of any aftercare is the issue, not sure that Chinese business culture is there yet. Having an open and accountable government and free society would probably help. Oh well.

Unfortunately being up front and admitting mistakes doesn't come easy in China's corporate culture by all accounts. Although I like the car, I don't have any confidence that the 7 year warranty will be of any real use in the coming years. Not sure I would buy a car from China again. Having said...

My box seems to have a baffle as part of the casting, there are internal pics of a very similar box earlier in this thread. Poked a screwdriver down the breather hole and it came to an abrupt halt, definitely sounded like aluminium that I was tapping . So they've either redesigned the casting...