(Think it's spelt bane) ?All well and good tell him - smug bugger !.
Confidence I like, but cocky gets my back up.
That type of attitude does nothing to help, when you are stuck stranded 200 miles away from home with a dead car.
Dealers generally have a strong dislike to EV owners who try to provide them with information that THEY should be providing to the customer !.
E.G. - The inbuilt Sat Nav on the facelift model only displaying the current location of the car and not progressing along with the chosen route selected.
Many dealers not being able to get this resolved, but a member of the forum sorting the problem out for the benefit of himself and others, then sharing it on the forum, need I say anymore.
Point him to thread, if he needs to benefit from items that have been resolved on the internet.
They have the equipment and the training by all accounts ?.
Let's see how good he REALLY is by offering his expert knowledge in rectify the problem on your car then.
Or is it going to ( as I suspect ) be one of these type ?of moments.
Clear the codes and ship it out !.
He could be proactive and speak to the MG Tech Team first of course, which are then likely to request they the dealer then upload's the data pack from the car, so they can remotely track and trace the problem and then provide a fix.
Of course this not likely to happen, because he disregards the information from the internet.
It's the "Bain of his life" remember.
What a kind thought. I think lovemyev is closer with his analysis but to be fair he is young and doesn't appreciate that admitting what you don't know is a better way to go. More to follow...
I was worried too so for my first ever rapid - yesterday - I chose to detour to the Electric Forecourt in Braintree. It all went well. An attendant came over and showed me what to do. I became over confident. It was attempt number 2 at eurotunnel that got me.
Same has happened to me, MG5, but the AA man read the faults with an OBD2 device (nothing shown) then cleared faults anyway and that fixed it, he says it is an MG problem with faulty chargers. Since then I have bought a Bluetooth OBD2 dongle to use with my phone if it happens again.
The car got into the workshop this afternoon. The dealer rang up to say the 12v battery was reading 3v. What had I done? He clearly thought we had shorted the terminals in our attempt to discharge/reset the system. Answer - No. The excellent AA patrol man was getting 12v when he checked. The only thing that happened subsequently was the car recovery people used jump leads to get enough power to steer the car onto their trailer. Still - 3v is catastrophic. Any ideas?All well and good tell him - smug bugger !.
Confidence I like, but cocky gets my back up.
That type of attitude does nothing to help, when you are stuck stranded 200 miles away from home with a dead car.
Dealers generally have a strong dislike to EV owners who try to provide them with information that THEY should be providing to the customer !.
E.G. - The inbuilt Sat Nav on the facelift model only displaying the current location of the car and not progressing along with the chosen route selected.
Many dealers not being able to get this resolved, but a member of the forum sorting the problem out for the benefit of himself and others, then sharing it on the forum, need I say anymore.
Point him to thread, if he needs to benefit from items that have been resolved on the internet.
They have the equipment and the training by all accounts ?.
Let's see how good he REALLY is by offering his expert knowledge in rectify the problem on your car then.
Or is it going to ( as I suspect ) be one of these type ?
Clear the codes and ship it out !.
He could be proactive and speak to the MG Tech Team first of course, which are then likely to request they the dealer then upload's the data pack from the car, so they can remotely track and trace the problem and then provide a fix.
Of course this not likely to happen, because he disregards the information from the internet.
It's the "Bain of his life" remember.
I have been fast charging my MG5 for over 10,000 miles almost exclusively and this problem happened twice, first time it went away after 10 min, second it lasted over 2 hours and had to call the dealer and AA. State of health shown with the OBD dongle is 100%, I was expecting 99 or 98.
Car did not shut down properly and the 12v battery was drained by something.
How do you know what month it was manufactured in ?
Here is a bit of "Food For Thought" regarding this issue on the face lift model(s).
Are you starting to consider it was a bit of "User Error" at the second rapid then @thingaby ??.
The SR is affected, I got stuck in mine until the AA could clear it via OBD
Did yours report the same fault 'System fault - HV battery disconnected - stop safely'.?
No mine didn’t say stop safely, I think it was just “System Fault - HV battery shut off”
Thanks, for the info
Mine was one of the first in the country so could be that it’s just on the earliest BMS, I collected it at the start of February
Ready mode is the correct lingo. In ready mode, the DC-DC is active, charging the auxiliary battery. Sometimes slowly (13.x V), sometimes strongly (14.x V).
In the whirlwind of activity around the failure it is hard to know exactly what happened when and therefore doubt creeps in. I am pretty confident it wasn't user error but.......
