Hey, how is everyone. We’ve done over 1000km is our MG4 Excite 64 which has only ever had $11 spent on charging as the 8.8 kW Solar Panels & Telsa Powerwall 2 have been able to keep up with the demands of the new car. Not only is the house staying off the grid, so it the car. Savings are great, though it can turn you into a miser if you’re not careful. The car is lovely & comfortable.
 
I went in today and a whole bunch had come in so not sure. They were expecting them to come fairly thick and fast.

The test drive went well. Turning radius is insane and overall felt very smooth compared to my Dad’s Gen 2 Leaf. Brakes were much better as well.

The only thing is they had this ceramic coating and interior protection thing on the contract. Three grand! Seems like a scam to me. I’ve seen others on the forum get it, but it seems pretty exxy. Salesman said “o if you polish it you void the warranty”. Okaaay.

Nope, you don’t have to buy that extra crap. Go elsewhere And save your $3000
 
There's a chance I'm heading up to Robina and back on a 700+km day trip early next week. Taking a mate to visit a dying friend.
Turned out we didn't make the trip, as the hospital visit wasn't possible.

But we did make a day trip up to Maclean and surrounds. About a 360km round trip, started with 100% SOC, ended with 27%, had a 12 minute top up charge at Tyndale (19 kWh) which was just long enough for an ice cream.

One instance of random braking on the freeway, the usual country road LKA beeps and steering wheel tugs but nothing overly aggressive.

Out again this morning but got back at noon and just plugged it in and ChargeHQ is looking after charging with solar.
 
One instance of random braking on the freeway, the usual country road LKA beeps and steering wheel tugs but nothing overly aggressive.
Was this with adaptive cruise turned on? Was it aggressive?
I haven't spent time with ACC yet and haven't observed any random braking (although the spectre of an AEB event always looms large!)
 
So reading your post it seems they may bring a new mg 4 model in the future that could have some ota updates but we might need to forget about getting any ota updates for current models.
They way I read it:
  • there will not be any OTA updates
  • getting updates will be an infrequent occurrence and/or a costly process
 
Yeah service levels between individual dealerships will always differ. Which is a pain.

We also had the electric ZS loan car for our 2 week repair period. Luckily our dealership wasn't too bad on the communications front, they blamed most of the delay on MG head office who had them first run a whole bunch of additional diagnostics on top of what they had already done (fair enough, no point replacing something only to have it break again a week later). Then waiting on their warranty approval.

In my case luckily the part was in stock, so no additional delays there.

Good luck, hope you get it back soon.
Agreed, customer service will vary between dealers. Disappointed we are stuck now with the dealership we went through - you can’t have it all!
So I got the call to advise our car was ready for pick up on Wednesday. I arrived excitedly on Wednesday morning.
They explained that with the airbag light issue in our case, a plug or wire was loose and they needed to replace the whole module on the left curtain airbag. That’s now sorted which is great.

Another issue we asked them to check up on while it was in, was the rate of charge.
My hubby is an electrician who would explain it better than I would… but basically, we tried to charge it from 60%, expecting that it would be charging at atleast 2-2.3kW. We were charging from a 10A gpo at the time (we now have installed an Ocular Solar IQ) but it was only pulling 1.2kW charge which is only roughly 5A.
They said they checked and there was no issue, all was working within spec. Has anyone else experienced this?

We haven’t been unable to charge it with the Ocular Solar IQ yet because guess what??

On pick up, I inspected the car before I left because it had been there for so long. I just wanted to make sure it was all good because I had a concern it wasn’t stored securely and no one could confirm that fact for me. Luckily I did…. It has a massive dent in the drivers side rear passenger door and no one knew what happened!
I left it there annd took the loan car again until they figured out what happened. The service manager called me back the same afternoon and said that notes on the file explained someone called me last week to advise that my car was parked out in the street and a neighbour living in the street had backed into it.
I call BS considering it was the first I heard of it and they didn’t know about it when they called me to come collect….
Our dash cams didn’t record a thing because they disconnected them the day I dropped it off.
Fair to say we are now in the middle of negotiating a fair resolution. The saga continues. We are devistated ?
 
We were charging from a 10A gpo at the time (we now have installed an Ocular Solar IQ) but it was only pulling 1.2kW charge which is only roughly 5A.

This is roughly correct. If you have the car on/unlocked/ac-running then it will show around that much going into the battery as the rest will be going to running those modules.

With the car locked it will max out at about 1.9kW as the car limits itself to 8A for unknown reasons.

I get ~6.5kW from a 32A charger (as the car will only use 30A).

And that sucks about your dent. Hopefully they don't give you any hassle fixing it.

Is the EV planner & charger routing software for the Essence promised to be available from October

I didn't know about this, I had seen it in the brochure, but assumed the extent of route planning was the semi-useless "EV range extent" map it shows. Is it meant to be getting a charger-to-charger-to-destination navigation feature?

Currently navigating from Sydney to Melbourne will happily tell you to just get on the Hume for 850km with no mention of needing to charge. It's useless and one reason I would still recommend EV newbies stick to Tesla or similar which will route correctly.
 
With the car locked it will max out at about 1.9kW as the car limits itself to 8A for unknown reasons.
It's because the car is obeying the pilot signal generated by the granny "charger". It has a 10 A plug, but 10 A plugs can only be safely used to 80% of that for continuous use like EV charging. 80% x 10 A = 8 A, so that's what the Australian granny "charger" tells the car to charge at.
 
I didn't know about this, I had seen it in the brochure, but assumed the extent of route planning was the semi-useless "EV range extent" map it shows. Is it meant to be getting a charger-to-charger-to-destination navigation feature?

Currently navigating from Sydney to Melbourne will happily tell you to just get on the Hume for 850km with no mention of needing to charge. It's useless and one reason I would still recommend EV newbies stick to Tesla or similar which will route correctly.
They have promised it so it should be an included upgrade. I'll make some inquiries with MG Australia.

I find the best way to plan a trip is to use either ABRP or Plugshare & use Android Auto & the app maps. Plugshare is a bit easier to use as it is not as comprehensive as ABRP. Both have all of the chargers (Evie, Chargefox, BP, Ampol, NRMA,Tesla etc & most of the free council ones as well.
 
It's because the car is obeying the pilot signal generated by the granny "charger"

Doesn’t explain why it will still only do 8A on a Tesla UMC that will charge other cars at 10A. And only 30A on a 32A charger that will give 32A to other cars.
 
Doesn’t explain why it will still only do 8A on a Tesla UMC that will charge other cars at 10A.
Ok, that's weird.

Edit: My Mark 1 does draw a little on the low side. If I set my OpenEVSE to 10 A, my Leaf will draw about 9.8 A (according to the EVSE, which I have not yet calibrated), but the MG will draw more like 9.2 A. But that's only 8% low, compared with 20% low.
And only 30A on a 32A charger that will give 32A to other cars.
Many MG models have a 6.6 kW On Board Charger, not a 7.2 kW model that will take the full 32 A. If the mains sags to 220 V with a 32 A load, that's 6600 / 220 = 30 A.
 
Doesn’t explain why it will still only do 8A on a Tesla UMC that will charge other cars at 10A. And only 30A on a 32A charger that will give 32A to other cars.
I think it's pretty normal, 16A rated chargers from my testing actually pull ~15A, my UMC with 10A tail pulls 9A and 15A tail pulls 14A, 32A tail, and seperate 32A EVSE both pull 30A. The 8A MG granny charger pulls 7A. what you get into the car is then ~10% less than that for inverter and other losses. Also I suspect Tesla's report what they're pulling rather than what they're actually putting into the car.
 
Yeah. It doesn’t bother me and I know it means trusting what the car reports - and the MG is probably more accurate here because it does take into account what actually goes into the battery vs pulled from the mains.

I don’t use the 10A charger anyway, so if the 30A discrepancy is explained by the onboard charger being only 30A fair enough - and the brochure does list 6.6kW not 7kW charging. So I guess that explains that. It’s still plenty quick enough.
 

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