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A salutary warning to us all! In my view the plastic cover is inadequate if such damage can occur so easily. But just accept the nice new replacement car rather than regret the damaged car - just one of those things - move on.

But not at the price of an MG ZS!

One advantage of resistance type heating over a heat-pump is the warm-up time which is considerably longer with the heat-pump as the system takes much longer to become operational. Thus for short trips or where the heating can be turned off after a short time, the resistance heater will be...

Yes but this was 5 years ago and the agency was removed from them by MG because they could not afford the ‘market presence’ that MG wanted.

I do think £400 is excessive, but Waylands are that sort of agent. The place I bought my car from (new) did not offer any service plan. However, I think they do all the correct work and MOT is included.

Take all keys away from the car for say 24 hours. I mean say 20. metres from the car. It should then work as normal.

Thanks for the re-assurance! As the battery is now down to 90%, I guess in real terms that means the range will be down to 150 miles. During last summer, I was still getting the usual 180-210 miles on the GOM! When weather cold I have trouble getting the GOM over about 135 miles now.

I drove an MG4 the other day which seems to have a much better camera than the ZS.

My car is a MK1. From what the service man said, it is both the part of the front grille that moves upwards, and the MG logo with the pulsating light. He said some wiring (of that mechanism) has been damaged on some cars. I assume the repair is free, but they hadn't got the parts.

5th service and MOT today at Waylands Oxford. £ 433.85 inc vat. Battery SOH 90% Last year 4th service and MOT at Waylands £322.76. Battery SOH 93%. So average battery degradation : 2.5%/year. Usually charged to 100% at 7kW, but 80% on rapid.

I have just had my 5th service and MOT and the total bill was £433.85, inc vat. Listed service cost was £295 plus vat. I asked for both key batteries to be replaced and opted to pay for courtesy car insurance at £25. (Otherwise £1000 excess!) Battery SOH is 90%. Car has done 24269 miles. Charged...

Not right now. However, on Monday (27 Jan) the car goes into Waylands for its 5th annual service. As part of that service they are are supposed to measure and mark on the report the level of battery SOH and %. I will report back next week, and also give last year's level.

And having owned the car for five years now and always charged at home to 100%, its probably too late to start worrying about it.....

Yes, that's easy. When you're on cheap rate charging it's being up at the appropriate time in the night to stop the charge that's difficult! I could reset the timer each time, but what a hassle.

EV DAY: I think Hmadsen above is referring to the MK2 ZS. The MK1 does not have the capability to set the max charge to anything but 100%.

Not that I know of.....

The problem is that charging to 80% at home on overnight cheap rate with the Mk1 (NMC battery) is very difficult because it has no programming facility. I can time-limit the charge but that would result in very variable charge values. So in the absence of any other method I charge, whenever a...

Re-circulation will increase moisture in the car and thus increase misting of the windscreen. Better to allow fresh air in.

In an EV, anything that uses kWh costs miles - its as simple as that. It is tedious to have to turn the heating on and off, but if you need to de-mist the windscreen it's the only way, as the heater/blower uses so much energy. Using Eco is a sop to the mind, you can drive like that in any mode.

You are right, Lovemyev - I checked on my service report from last year and there it was - the whole 2 pages of form, duly filled out.! It seems the battery coolant should be changed this year - but of course there is no way of actually checking that it has been done. However, I suppose it is...