KT23
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Starting a thread which I'll keep up to date as things progress in case it helps anyone else.
Drove car on Saturday 17th for about 200 miles with no problems and put car on charge overnight to recharge from 30% to 100% - another long drive planned on the Sunday. Car started charging overnight for about 1 hour before cutting out and circuit breaker had gone on the mains supply to my home charger (Ohme). Resetting circuit breaker and retrying was no good. Car started 'handshake' but after about 2-3 mins stopped and car socket released. Same effect with granny charger.
First thing to say is an excellent response from MG Assistance; AA arrived to my home within an hour and after checking advised that car needed to go to dealer. As I had 30% available plan was to drive there with AA van following behind in case of problems. Got about 1 mile down the road; 12V battery had dropped to about 8V and all sorts of other problems started showing - brakes, drivetrain, etc. AA man got me onto the towing wheels (after a challenge due to parking brake not releasing and car not going into neutral). Jon the AA man was very efficient and careful and resolved problems and got me to MG Budgen at Shrewsbury.
About 3 screens full of error messages when they plugged in the OBD and the assumption is many/most of them were 'cascade ones' from whatever the main fault is.
MG Budgen at Shrewsbury have been excellent so far - they tried their charger with the same results as at home. Analysis and discussion with MG Warranty by the dealer has got the EVCC replaced and updated the software - did not resolve the problem. They are now investigating further and considering possibly replacing the ECU. As it is the bank holiday weekend, next updates will be Tuesday. They've given me a loan electric car (Citroen C4), to replace the 4-day car hire as part of the MG Assistance package, whilst they find out the problem and resolve.
I've had the car since May of last year with no problems apart from a 'dead car' in about August of last year which cleared with a lithium 12 V jump charger that I had anyway. I now carry it as a matter of course for safety.
Drove car on Saturday 17th for about 200 miles with no problems and put car on charge overnight to recharge from 30% to 100% - another long drive planned on the Sunday. Car started charging overnight for about 1 hour before cutting out and circuit breaker had gone on the mains supply to my home charger (Ohme). Resetting circuit breaker and retrying was no good. Car started 'handshake' but after about 2-3 mins stopped and car socket released. Same effect with granny charger.
First thing to say is an excellent response from MG Assistance; AA arrived to my home within an hour and after checking advised that car needed to go to dealer. As I had 30% available plan was to drive there with AA van following behind in case of problems. Got about 1 mile down the road; 12V battery had dropped to about 8V and all sorts of other problems started showing - brakes, drivetrain, etc. AA man got me onto the towing wheels (after a challenge due to parking brake not releasing and car not going into neutral). Jon the AA man was very efficient and careful and resolved problems and got me to MG Budgen at Shrewsbury.
About 3 screens full of error messages when they plugged in the OBD and the assumption is many/most of them were 'cascade ones' from whatever the main fault is.
MG Budgen at Shrewsbury have been excellent so far - they tried their charger with the same results as at home. Analysis and discussion with MG Warranty by the dealer has got the EVCC replaced and updated the software - did not resolve the problem. They are now investigating further and considering possibly replacing the ECU. As it is the bank holiday weekend, next updates will be Tuesday. They've given me a loan electric car (Citroen C4), to replace the 4-day car hire as part of the MG Assistance package, whilst they find out the problem and resolve.
I've had the car since May of last year with no problems apart from a 'dead car' in about August of last year which cleared with a lithium 12 V jump charger that I had anyway. I now carry it as a matter of course for safety.
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