7kW stopped charging

[crispyjay]

My FL5 Trophy has stopped charging on all head office 7kW chargers. 10mm spanner trick not resolved it, but is now charging on the granny charger.

Any idea what’s going on?

Will try a rapid charger on way home.

 

[slmorgan42]

May be an obvious question but one to ask. Are you using your own type 2 and if yes have you tried another cable?

 

[crispyjay]

May be an obvious question but one to ask. Are you using your own type 2 and if yes have you tried another cable?

Good point. I have not! Let me find a colleague.

 

[slmorgan42]

Good point. I have not! Let me find a colleague.

Fingers crossed its just that.

It is my guess if the granny is working with no issues. They both use the AC onboard charger just at different speeds.

 

[crispyjay]

It’s the cable. MG one supplied with car coming up to 14 months of use.

Found a spare cable and that works.

 

[5teep]

I suspect one of the control pins in your lead has widened out and is not making contact when you plug it in, worth looking at as you might be able to tease it back in a bit.

 

[crispyjay]

Another incident today. Same charger at work using the spare cable.

Started charging from ~15% at 6.2kW and checked throughout the day. At ~3.30pm checked app and noticed charging had stopped at 75%.

Wondered down to car park. Colleagues BMW still OK on the other socket but mine not working. Removed from car plugged in again - no good.

Then found I couldn’t remove plug from charger post. Required a lot of force…. because it had melted a bit and welded itself to socket. Hmm.

13amp still works so car OK!

 

[dragon2611]

Either you have been very unlucky with cables/your replacement was of poor quality or someone needs to get an engineer out to check that charger as it may have a loose connection on the charger side causing excessive heat.