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Well today my 2021 Exclusive SR just had its third service and first MOT so this seems a good time to write a retrospective.
I don't do so many journeys now I'm retired so I've only reached 10,286 miles in this car. Though the miles are low, they are nevertheless represented by a fairly even mixture of urban, rural and motorway driving so my experiences are still relevant.
All of the charging on my car has been done at home, initially using the granny and subsequently at 7kW using my HyperVolt Home v2.0 EVSE. I have always been on the standard Octopus Go tariff so charging takes place in a 4 hour window overnight and I still have the dubious honour of never having been been awake whilst my car was being charged!
Energy consumption has been recorded in detail over most of the three years and this has shown the seasonal variation to range from a low of 3.3 miles/kWh in December 2022 to a high of 4.7 miles/kWh in August 2023. I've found a year on year improvement in range but I can't attribute this to anything specific beyond the fact that I'm more in tune with the car over time.
So what problems did I encounter over the three years?
Only one really and that was semi self inflicted (factory reset of the Infotainment Unit broke the SatNav). The SatNav was fixed but a residual "feature" of the reset was a change of the dashboard temperature display from Centigrade to Fahrenheit. My local dealer has been singularly unsuccessful in resolving this but in truth it is an utterly trivial issue as temperature is also displayed on the Infotainment Unit and that still displays in Centigrade. I lose no sleep over this.
My service costs have been:
Year 1 - £63.08
Year 2 - £165.72 (inc Brake Fluid change)
Year 3 - £157.04 (inc MOT which was a straight pass as expected)
All servicing has been done by a small family run firm AE Wilcox of Wickwar in South Gloucestershire who through no fault of their own had their sales franchise removed earlier this year.
Battery SOH after 3 years was today recorded at 100% but that's no great surprise to me as I check it myself on a regular basis. Time alone doesn't seem to impact the algorithm which determines displayed battery degradation.
Overall I've been extremely happy with my Mk1 MG5. I'm very glad that it didn't get caught up in NCAP shenanigans so it lets me get on and drive the car without interfering and that's just the way I like it.
I don't do so many journeys now I'm retired so I've only reached 10,286 miles in this car. Though the miles are low, they are nevertheless represented by a fairly even mixture of urban, rural and motorway driving so my experiences are still relevant.
All of the charging on my car has been done at home, initially using the granny and subsequently at 7kW using my HyperVolt Home v2.0 EVSE. I have always been on the standard Octopus Go tariff so charging takes place in a 4 hour window overnight and I still have the dubious honour of never having been been awake whilst my car was being charged!
Energy consumption has been recorded in detail over most of the three years and this has shown the seasonal variation to range from a low of 3.3 miles/kWh in December 2022 to a high of 4.7 miles/kWh in August 2023. I've found a year on year improvement in range but I can't attribute this to anything specific beyond the fact that I'm more in tune with the car over time.
So what problems did I encounter over the three years?
Only one really and that was semi self inflicted (factory reset of the Infotainment Unit broke the SatNav). The SatNav was fixed but a residual "feature" of the reset was a change of the dashboard temperature display from Centigrade to Fahrenheit. My local dealer has been singularly unsuccessful in resolving this but in truth it is an utterly trivial issue as temperature is also displayed on the Infotainment Unit and that still displays in Centigrade. I lose no sleep over this.
My service costs have been:
Year 1 - £63.08
Year 2 - £165.72 (inc Brake Fluid change)
Year 3 - £157.04 (inc MOT which was a straight pass as expected)
All servicing has been done by a small family run firm AE Wilcox of Wickwar in South Gloucestershire who through no fault of their own had their sales franchise removed earlier this year.
Battery SOH after 3 years was today recorded at 100% but that's no great surprise to me as I check it myself on a regular basis. Time alone doesn't seem to impact the algorithm which determines displayed battery degradation.
Overall I've been extremely happy with my Mk1 MG5. I'm very glad that it didn't get caught up in NCAP shenanigans so it lets me get on and drive the car without interfering and that's just the way I like it.