MG4 Oil Leak Poll (Part 1)

[Jester27]

Slightly off topic, but can you actually change your vote or have you just added a second vote? The only reason I ask is that if more of who currently have no leak subsequently get one it'll only ever appear that half of us have the problem as we'll have voted both No and Yes.

This combines with @Alb 's point about the ambiguity of the first question.

You can change, won't let you vote twice

 

[tsedge]

Trouble is it substantially skews the poll.
Using the current stats (17 votes), the ambiguity of Question 1 could mean 100% have a leak which they may or may not have yet actually witnessed, or could alternatively mean 10 out of 17 (59%) do not have a leak meaning the majority of cars are currently OK. Any position between these two extremes is of course equally possible.

Until someone finds a leak we can’t say they have it, whether they have looked or not. The poll shows a substantial common problem and clearly MG need to address it.

 

[Alb]

MG4 Oil Leak Poll (Part 1)

To help understand the problem, please only answer if you already have an MG4. Edit: All comments to the oil leak thread as linked below please.

www.mgevs.com

Please note post #2.

 

[Taq]

Had to change the vote again from just overfilled, to unknown cause as it seems to be back again

 

[Bonny 865]

Had to change the vote again from just overfilled, to unknown cause as it seems to be back again

Oh blimy it's not good my car is still at the dealer

 

[AndyM]

Can this be pinned?

 

[Alb]

Certainly, now pinned

 

[MG4ismyfirstEV]

As a counter-point ... I'd argue that nobody would (should) answer the poll unless they a) have an MG4 and b) have actually looked.

Edit: I'm showing an MG4 in my profile but don't actually have it yet.

This is a very good point. I met a fellow mg 4 owner at a local free charging point. Asked him how it was going. He said great.

I said wow. Lucky chap, you avoided the oil leak issue. He said he hadn’t actually checked.

We both looked under the rear of the car and there it was. Oil soaked undertray. Even dropped onto tarmac.

Don’t assume you are leak free. Check.

 

[siteguru]

This is a very good point. I met a fellow mg 4 owner at a local free charging point. Asked him how it was going. He said great.

I said wow. Lucky chap, you avoided the oil leak issue. He said he hadn’t actually checked.

We both looked under the rear of the car and there it was. Oil soaked undertray. Even dropped onto tarmac.

Don’t assume you are leak free. Check.

Ignorance is bliss.

 

[MG4ismyfirstEV]

Ignorance is bliss.

Shades of red pill v blue pill haha.

 

[siteguru]

Strangely enough .. I am Mr. Anderson.

 

[beefyj]

I didn’t have an oil leak for 1200+ miles……..until I looked.

 

[AndyM]

Moved my vote back to had oil leak and just overfilled based on what I have been told by dealer today.

 

[Eejit]

It's like Schrödinger's cat, you are both leak free AND have an oil leak until you actually look

 

[BugEyed]

Mine's returned just in time for the car going back tomorrow.

 

[Eejit]

Just got mine back from the dealers. Confirmed there is a leak and that there is a bulletin regarding it. A "new piece" has been ordered and should be here in a few weeks.
MG are not the quickest so will not hold my breath

 

[siteguru]

The "piece" is a modified breather. See the general Oil Leak thread. (This is the Oil Leak Poll thread)

 

[Retsiba]

Hello all, first timer here. Hope you all waiting for fixes get them real soon. Such is the burden that comes with being first through the door.

 

[tsedge]

Just a reminder to put oil leak comments on the Oil Leak thread, not this poll.

 

[Hallix73]

Can we have another line on the Poll please.
"New Breather has fixed my oil leak."