smokie
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Interestingly, I just went back to the saved Mk II £340 quote and changed the car back to my own Mk I and it came up with £227. So the Trophy insurance is considerably more in it's own right.
Well as we all know so many things impact insurance quotes postcode are are but too I used both of them sites you mention £700-835 cheapest for me unbelievable spoke this morning to a MG dealer her words where she can’t understand it I’m not the only one would has said about the difference in the insurance to the Trophy from the MK1 exclusive model no idea why.Interestingly, I just went back to the saved Mk II £340 quote and changed the car back to my own Mk I and it came up with £227. So the Trophy insurance is considerably more in it's own right.
That’s excellent pebble can I please ask who that’s from and which insurance company if you don’t mind.72 plate, 2023 reg, 5 Trophy - £249 premium, £250 total excess, 7 years NCD, 62 years old plus wife at 61, SY4 postcode. No protected NCD or any other add ons.
Yeh about the same really smokie, did try again tonight with a few and this time meerkats came up with Churchill for £537, which is much better I have just saved it for the only thing I changed was the start date instead of next week I put in a date in around 3 weeks from now as Martin Lewis says you should do when coming up to renewal. When I get back home I am going on the phone to a few some of which don’t do online quotes or have not got the uplifted 5 on there on line systems yet.Have you tried confused.com Les?
Your dead right smokie nothing wrong with the MK1mg5 but I’ve let mine go whyI decided against the new 5 purely because it wold cost me about £8k + to change, for not a huge amount of improvement. There is some stuff which is undoubtedly better but not worth that much to me. If it had been the only choice when buying my Mk I I'd have bought it but I'm really happy with the one I have - and one thing which brings me happiness is how cheap it was (with Affinity)!
If I spent more time in the car (like I used to) I might have been more tempted.
But I'll hang onto the money till there are some more substantive improvements.
Admiral via Compare The Market. Going direct to Admiral gave a figure of £300+. This was back in mid December 2022. Should have added, 6k miles a year and a courtesy car included in the event of accident etc.. At the time, CTM were one of the few showing the 5 Trophy.That’s excellent pebble can I please ask who that’s from and which insurance company if you don’t mind.
Les
That 3 week rule worked for me when renewing this year. Used the comparison sites about a month before when I got my renewal quote from Flow and was going to stay with them. Tried again 3 weeks before and got cheaper quotes and have changed to Aviva now.... the only thing I changed was the start date instead of next week I put in a date in around 3 weeks from now as Martin Lewis says you should do when coming up to renewal. ...
It would appear that the range and the cost are in question on this newer version and is one of the dislikes.
I suppose time will tell, but do you think it is worth the upgrade cost to change. I reckon it would be about 10k now with the falling value of used vehicles and the new Trophy at £34kHi as some of you will know I got the 5 uplifted Trophy model picked it up on Friday after a long drawn out battle trying to get insurance at a reasonable price so that sorted for now Gone with Churchill via the meerkats about £440 had to drop the NC protection £87 I think that was and had to increase the excess from 2-4 hundred pounds.
So getting back on thread this morning I was reading in another thread on here some body have a bit of a moan about his 5 MK 1 exclusive not have a warning light as he drove off with the charge port open think most of us have done that right.
So I thought I wonder if they have sorted that out on this new Trophy well in a word NO they haven’t or I can’t see any warning if the port is open and I turn on the car to ready mode, my wife’s MG4 does and there is also 4 big lights all around the charging port with light up in turn as the battery gets more charge in it’s great, but the size and brightness of these lights light up the street almost and if you get in the car and the charge port is open it has a big picture on the dash panel saying charging port open.
The 5 Trophy has 4 small lights to show the state of charge I think not charged it yet, but no warning if you leave it open from what I can see.
But there’s good news it now has lights in the rear seating area. But the MG4 doesn’t. When will they listen appears they can only fix one grip at a time maybe on the next uplifted version but then I think the motor and the charging port might be at the rear like the Mg4 and that’s all ok then.
Les.
Problems during the 1000km challenge. I think it is similiar what happend to other members over time.
I have not had problems the few times I have used my odb2 device but then again I do not leave it plugged in all the time.I tried it when plugged in the ODB dongle (+ the app Bjorn uses as well) and had more strange thinks that happened: Problems when I wanted to charge but after disconnecting the dongle there was no problem anymore and sudden theft-alarm going of several times ( + ones in the middle of the night!?) when I had the dongle connected. After that I unplugged the ODB dongle and had NO problems for a little less than a year now.
Maybe the MG5 doesn’t like ODB-dongle’s that much(?)
I hope Bjorn will try the 1000km challenge again and disconnect the ODB-dongle when having problems with charging.