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Okay, I did the magnet test, as suggested by Mr Toad, and it sticks! So steel it is. It's pretty thin - you can bend it with your fingers - so I will have to make sure I keep the car away from the acorns . . .

I have a large oak tree in my front drive, and in the autumn, the acorns fall like bombs, potentially denting the roof of any car parked underneath. I have looked at the roof of my MG4 Trophy, and the black section appears to be an insert made of plastic, which is slightly flexible. If so, the...

Thought I'd try mine again this morning after being off for 33 hours, and the car woke up with the app (although it took a few seconds to do so). No consistency here. I wonder if there is an equivalent Forum to this one in China? SAIC's engineers might post to it, and explain what's really...

Okay, got a bit more zombie testing done at the weekend. I have now done five tests, each of different durations to find out when the zombie state cuts in. These are the durations I checked: 19 22 24 25 30 Hours After the first three tests, the car was still awake. After the last two, it...

It depends on the Council. Hampshire allows cable protectors to run across the pavement:

I carried on with the 19 hours test, right up to 30 hours, regularly testing the car with the app, finishing this morning - the car stayed awake throughout. I think this confirms my earlier hypothesis that using the app to check on the car resets the zombie timeout - unsurprising, I think...

Even more interesting: For the next test I left the car locked and iSmart app off for 19 hours, fired up the app, and the car was awake! No zombie state, and it is still awake at 21 hours (so well over Ayoull's 18 hours). I will carry on testing, but is it possible that the act of accessing...

Yes, interesting. To test this, I left the car locked, and the iSmart app off on my phone, for 30 hours.. I then started up the app, tried to access the car, and it was indeed in the zombie state, saying variously: The status checking is failed The remote control instruction execution has failed...

Brilliant! So what causes the car to go into the zombie state? And if you are parking at the airport for 2 weeks, can you select it?

I repeated this test last night after driving only 64 miles, with no intermediate charges. This time it charged at 6.2kw for 8 minutes going from 78% to 80%. Then it carried on charging at 6.2kw for less than 1 minute, dropping to 3.3-4.6kw for 4 minutes, then dropping to zero. The gross power...

Okay, I did a search on 'timeout' and found the old thread MG iSMART issues - very helpful. As you say, the message seems to be that unlocking the car wakes up the app. Next time it happens, I'll try it. (You have to unlock the car with the remote key, of course - you can't use the app, because...

I did a scheduled charge last night on my home Pod Point. Before I went to bed, the iSmart app could see the car data, state of charge, etc. When I tried the app again this morning, it no longer saw any data from the car. The charge was finished, and the cable was still connected. In this...

Next test today: This is the display showing Energy since last charge. If I change it to Energy Since Start (of 8 mile last journey), it changes to a blank blue ring.

I think the acceleration is great, with instant unfussy takeoff from stationary. Spinning the back wheels in the wet is certainly possible, but this is due to the instant power. This car would definitely out-drag my previous BMW X1.

I thought I had this problem on my Trophy, then I did a drive in the cold in the dark when I was using both the heating and the headlights, and suddenly after an hour, an extra segment popped up in the O graph. I had to use 1 kwh of non-driving power before this happened - it doesn't recognise...

Good luck! However, you might want to look at the parallel thread, Cell balancing on LR with Zappi On this thread, Big Al says: However what I’m seeing on my Zappi is that when the charge reaches 100%, no further current is supplied for the cell balancing. It just drops from 7kw to 0. And the...

I like your test - go for it! It occurs to me that one reason we have been advised to balance at 100% is that this reliably recalibrates the % charge estimate. At 80% it cannot be recalibrated, and remains an estimate. (This doesn't bother me.)

To which Sloucher responded that it had to go to 100% to equalise. Maybe so, but there is something odd going on here, with the 80% charge drawing extra power. I have just done this test, starting charging my Trophy at 78%. It charged at 6.2kw for 14 minutes before it reached 80%, which is...

I would query this. If you test your dipped headlights in the dark against a wall some distance away, I think you will find the the left beam is set slightly higher than the right. (They were on my Trophy, and were also both set too low.) If you travel to the continent, it would therefore seem...

Yesterday, it was cold, and I was stuck in traffic for an hour to do 8 miles. My readings were: AC 1kwh Driving 2kwh Regen 2kwh I observed the same thing as Oberoi: the circle remains blue until you use 1kwh of AC/ heating, when a red segment suddenly appears. If you are economical with...