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Quite often I don't bother locking the car after I get out (we have a private drive on a quiet road). I take the key with me inside, which is out of range of the car. A few days ago I did this in the evening, then went outside again for something about 20 minutes later to find that my headlights...

I've used the ACC quite a lot on my S5 Trophy and generally like it, it's pretty good at leaving appropriate (adjustable) distance and smooth slowing when someone cuts you up etc, but this is new and a bit weird. I was driving along the motorway with ACC set at 68mph, passing something on the...

If you use Intelligent Octopus Go you can request an RFID card which gives you 8% discount on the displayed rate and the charge just gets added to your electricity bill. I have only ever charged outside the home <10 times and all but 2 I have been able to use the Electroverse card, even at one...

Yep, you're right on that. Sorry for misunderstanding you.

It's the scheduling by them that is the whole point of IOG and the reason they call it 'intelligent'. They can schedule it when energy is cheap for them, thus allowing your car to get charged outside the normal 6hr cheap time and still only get charged at the cheap rate. If you don't want that...

So yesterday the car was at 49%, so I set it to add 45% to be ready by 08:30. While it was still charging I checked the charging rates. Zappi was saying the power was 7.2kW, yet the MG was saying 6.6kW (see screenshots). When it had finished Zappi says it had added 31.05kWh (which is 50% of the...

The whole point is that Octopus do the scheduling, not you.

I use intelligent Octopus Go for my charging, with a Zappi charger. The way it works is that you tell Octopus what charger you have and what car you have when setting it up. To charge, you can plug in any time of day and you say you want it to add X% charge by a certain time, and Octopus...

Is this a thing? My S5 turns on when I sit in the seat, not when I press anything.

I have a 100A fuse but the charger has a limit of 31.8A according to Zappi. Nominal voltage is 230V so that makes around 7.3kW 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've had Renault, VW, Mercedes, Jaguar, Honda, Vauxhall, BMW, Ford, MG and probably others. I don't remember having had a car where the mirror heaters (if it had them) didn't turn on with the rear demister.

I get 7.2kW charging at home with my Zappi 🤷🏻‍♂️

Zappi with Intelligent Octopus Go for me. It means you can use 7p rate up till 11am and Octopus often schedule it before 11pm and still only charge 7p if you let them do the scheduling. It's just so easy. You just go into the Octopus app, put in how much % you want to add and when you want it...

My wife opened the boot using the switch to get her violin out but found she was a bit close to some thorny bushes behind (she says she didn't realise it would go out so far). She had to dive out of the way while it ripped its way through the bushes making horrible graunchy, scratchy noises. It...

NMC batteries supposedly have a minimum of 2000+ cycles, and LFC battery 3000-4000+. At 298 miles (WLTP, more practically 250 miles) per cycle, at 500,000 miles I think my car is likely to be in EV heaven long before the battery fails due to too many high charges. Sure, if you're not using it...

My 2024 ZS had a cover over both sockets but my S5 doesn't have a cover over the upper AC type 2 socket, just on the DC connector 🤷🏻‍♂️ I can't see anything which would hold one, but then I don't think anyone here is saying there is one on an S5 are they? Only on older designs like ZS and 5.

I might be interested in these too. Do you need to take the wheel off to fit them? You said it's possible to re-use the existing clips - aren't they likely to break when you remove them?

Is this still available? I'd be interested in the plain ones (are they for an MGS5?) What's an ES5?

I picked up my car on Wed and played with the AA. It seemed fine on the way home using wireless. However, after I got home I tried plugging it in with the cable, which also worked fine. When I disconnected the cable, however, it wouldn't reconnect on wireless AA. I was fiddling for ages, turning...

Thanks, that's good to know. I am collecting my S5 this lunchtime in PX for my ZSEV so I'll whip out the granny charger along with all my accumulated crap.