Why all the beeping?

[DickBrowne]

I know that there;s a lot of talk about the beeping inside the new HS when driving - attention monitor, speed change, speed exceeded and so on, but I have a different question to ask.

When I leave the car, to pay for petrol for instance, leaving my wife inside the car with my keys, it beeps the hooter at me. If I press the "close boot" button, and lock the car before it's finished doing it's thing, it beeps the hooter at me. If I leave the car, for instance to pop something into the boot whilst de-frosting the car, it beeps the hooter at me,

Each Monday and Friday morning, I leave home around 6am to go the gymn, The car has needed defrosting a number of times before I could leave, and the calm morning air is rent assunder as I leave the car to pop the scraper into the boot, forgetting the beeping thing until it's too late.

I understand why I'm being beeped at, but as a nominal grown-up, I'd like to choose my own leaving-the-car behaviour, either "ignition on" so I can keep the heating running, or maybe I just sometimes like to pay for petrol without being supervised by my wife, and I would like to do it without being shouted at by a recalcitrant MG.

I've looked though all of the menus to see if I can find an option to disable this beeping behaviour, but can't see anything - am I missing something, or is this just something else in my life over which I have no control (alongside the wife, kids, dogs etc).

 

[Jto]

If you leave a key IE your wife key and you take your key the car will still see wife key as in the car.
You should have the app on the new HS and I believe you car defrost the car from the app. This will start the car and it needs to warm up to heat the car and you may need to do this a few times before you have heat unlike my full EV where it’s instant.

 

[DickBrowne]

The heat from the HS is pretty rapid, and I’ve used that a couple of times, but if I’m in the car when it’s defrosting (as I have been) it’s not convenient to use the app.

There are various scenarios where the car is a bit shouty on the outside, and I understand the reasons, I’m just wondering if I could ask it to either mind its own business, or at least be a bit more discreet!

 

[MGDriver]

The heat from the HS is pretty rapid, and I’ve used that a couple of times, but if I’m in the car when it’s defrosting (as I have been) it’s not convenient to use the app.

There are various scenarios where the car is a bit shouty on the outside, and I understand the reasons, I’m just wondering if I could ask it to either mind its own business, or at least be a bit more discreet!

the argument to that is turn the car on with the app 10 minutes before leaving, so that by the time you are ready to leave, the car is all defrosted,

Its not just the HS, but all MG models will beep the horn if you leave the car in or try and lock the car before the boot or doors have been shut, its actually quite common with alot of brands, some sort of audible notification that the keys are left in the car or a door is still open