Replace interior light bulbs?

[nuppar]

Has anyone managed to replace the front interior lights? The existing ones are far too dim and yellow in my view and could do with both much brighter and whiter lights. But what led bulb types are needed and what is their safe upper power limit? Prising out and replacing cover also looks challenging!

 

[fred12345]

Has anyone managed to replace the front interior lights? The existing ones are far too dim and yellow in my view and could do with both much brighter and whiter lights. But what led bulb types are needed and what is their safe upper power limit? Prising out and replacing cover also looks challenging!

I'm sure I've seen previous post on this somewhere, search the forum and it should pop up

Check accessories thread for other options, too.

 

[nuppar]

I did search the forums before posting and did not find a reference to this. But hopefully the knowledge on how to tackle this does exist.

 

[fred12345]

depends on your model and what's already there, check out this one for fittings

Interior light bulbs

Trying to replace interior light bulbs with LED. Got the housing off with a bit of trepidation, but cannot for the life of me disconnect any of the connectors (sunroof, lights, SOS) to allow the housing to be removed, I'm assuming that it has to be removed to replace bulbs. Anyone done this...

www.mgevs.com

 

[MG steve]

Read the manual as bulb type and instructions are in there.

 

[Staffex]

You'll probably find all you need to know here: Interior bulbs getting them out.
It worked like a dream for me.

 

[Lovemyev]

Has anyone managed to replace the front interior lights? The existing ones are far too dim and yellow in my view and could do with both much brighter and whiter lights. But what led bulb types are needed and what is their safe upper power limit? Prising out and replacing cover also looks challenging!

I am assuming we are talking Gen1 ZS EV here ?.

 

[nuppar]

I am assuming we are talking Gen1 ZS EV here ?.

It's a brand new Gen2 Trophy LR actually. The one that was meant to come with a panoramic sunroof, V2L and universal CCS charging but somehow didn't ?

 

[Exdro]

It's a brand new Gen2 Trophy LR actually. The one that was meant to come with a panoramic sunroof, V2L and universal CCS charging but somehow didn't ?

That’s why I jumped at the chance of an ex demonstrator with all of the promised bells and whistles (fortunately no bongs as per my Gen 1. If you know, you know). I think the bongs have now been decommissioned.

 

[Lovemyev]

It's a brand new Gen2 Trophy LR actually. The one that was meant to come with a panoramic sunroof, V2L and universal CCS charging but somehow didn't ?

I only asked the question because your original post did not state either ZS EV Gen1 or the facelift Gen2 model.
The Gen1 only had capless festoon ( yellow glow ) lamps / bulbs and some owners updated these to the brighter / whiter LED lamps.
The owners manual on the Gen2 states that “depending on the cars market” the interior light could be either standard ( yellow glow ) lamps or the brighter LED units.
Our 2022 Trophy ? model HAS the front LED interior light, that was fitted by the factory.
I don’t recall any other owner of the Trophy ? model, not having a LED interior light TBH ?.
Regarding the missing sky roof in your car.
MG did give clear notice that they intended to remove the sky roof on any future factory orders the Trophy ? model, around July time I think it was ?.
There was then a bit of a scrabble for some customer to try and find, a Trophy model already held in any group stock, in order to secure a car with a sky roof.
Or a X demo model or a second hand model.
Any owners who expressed an interest to the dealer in order to accessing the V2L facility, then this could easily be done by replacing the small module that permits V2L discharge.
This has been covered extensively on the forum.
The universal CCS issue you mention ?.
Are you referring to the use / access to the non Tesla super chargers ?.
If so, there is a software update that will allow the ZS EV Gen2 model to charge from the non Tesla supercharger units.
Some have had this carried out FOC but others have been asked to contribute to the cost of updating the software.
Again this is covered by another thread on the forum.

 

[Elec Car Aust]

Has anyone managed to replace the front interior lights? The existing ones are far too dim and yellow in my view and could do with both much brighter and whiter lights. But what led bulb types are needed and what is their safe upper power limit? Prising out and replacing cover also looks challenging!

Yes, and I installed puddle lights in the footwells and rear seat lights. The MG's have shameful interior lighting.

I thought I did a YT video on it but looking on my channel I can't find it amongst the over 100 videos ? so will have to look into what happened to it. Here's one where I talk about the lighting when doing a review of interior after 3 yrs ownership. Enjoy.

 

[nuppar]

I only asked the question because your original post did not state either ZS EV Gen1 or the facelift Gen2 model.
The Gen1 only had capless festoon ( yellow glow ) lamps / bulbs and some owners updated these to the brighter / whiter LED lamps.
The owners manual on the Gen2 states that “depending on the cars market” the interior light could be either standard ( yellow glow ) lamps or the brighter LED units.
Our 2022 Trophy ? model HAS the front LED interior light, that was fitted by the factory.
I don’t recall any other owner of the Trophy ? model, not having a LED interior light TBH ?.
Regarding the missing sky roof in your car.
MG did give clear notice that they intended to remove the sky roof on any future factory orders the Trophy ? model, around July time I think it was ?.
There was then a bit of a scrabble for some customer to try and find, a Trophy model already held in any group stock, in order to secure a car with a sky roof.
Or a X demo model or a second hand model.
Any owners who expressed an interest to the dealer in order to accessing the V2L facility, then this could easily be done by replacing the small module that permits V2L discharge.
This has been covered extensively on the forum.
The universal CCS issue you mention ?.
Are you referring to the use / access to the non Tesla super chargers ?.
If so, there is a software update that will allow the ZS EV Gen2 model to charge from the non Tesla supercharger units.
Some have had this carried out FOC but others have been asked to contribute to the cost of updating the software.
Again this is covered by another thread on the forum.

As I understand it, MG removed the panoramic roof because of supply shortages during covid. If this is true it suggests the deprecation should have been temporary and they should have reintroduced it by now. But what was their excuse for disabling V2L when this has continued to work on the MG5/4?

Universal CCS does refer to the Tesla issue which I'm likely to refer to the Consumers Association Legal advice team and perhaps also to Which? because of the likely wider interest in this than just Tesla and MG.

 

[Lovemyev]

As I understand it, MG removed the panoramic roof because of supply shortages during covid. If this is true it suggests the deprecation should have been temporary and they should have reintroduced it by now. But what was their excuse for disabling V2L when this has continued to work on the MG5/4?

Personally I don’t buy the supply shortage story myself.
The ZS EV had seen a number of price increases in quick succession.
This was bringing the model much closer to other EV’s by the competition.
Removing the sky roof made huge savings on the cost of production, as they were only using a single roof pressing for all models from this point onwards.
I think the V2L issue was purely down to the U.K. car spec models not receiving the correct module to allow this to happen.
Incorrect details on the build sheet at the factory ?.
Why do I think this?
Well as soon as new customers started complaining, they allowed the dealer to replace the incorrect module FOC very quickly .
Not a supplier problem as they clearly had the parts then ?.

 

[nuppar]

Personally I don’t buy the supply shortage story myself.
The ZS EV had seen a number of price increases in quick succession.
This was bringing the model much closer to other EV’s by the competition.
Removing the sky roof made huge savings on the cost of production, as they were only using a single roof pressing for all models from this point onwards.
I think the V2L issue was purely down to the U.K. car spec models not receiving the correct module to allow this to happen.
Incorrect details on the build sheet at the factory ?.
Why do I think this?
Well as soon as new customers started complaining, they allowed the dealer to replace the incorrect module FOC very quickly .
Not a supplier problem as they clearly had the parts then ?.

If cost is the issue for the panoramic roof, why has the ZS been released recently in markets like India, Malaysia and Thailand with the panoramic roof? Would have thought these are more likely price sensitive markets than the UK.

And the V2L issue seems to have been prolonged for recent ZS's when previously earlier Mk2's did not have this problem I think. So how did their build process manage to get it right and then wrong. Doesnt altogether sound credible to me over such a long period - more than a year? 2023/4? Perhaps ZS owners are just test subjects to see what percentage actually complain about the missing feature. Although seems like a clumsy process to measure this.