Rolfe
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- MG4 SE SR
I've just done Essex to Snowdon and back in a SE SR and had no issues. One stop on the way up as I wasn't going to need the car while in Wales. And two on the way back cos I was going back to work the following day and wouldn't have enough with just using my granny charger. Used Gridserve chargers with no problems on the M6 and M 25. In fact the only issues I had was with ICE cars parking in the EV charging bays. I even had a "discussion" with a guy in a Merc AMG who tried to convince me that his was specially modified to an ev despite having four of the biggest diameter exhaust pipes I've ever seen!
The first time I had a go at someone doing that in Halifax, I got "If I didn't park here, someone else would." The second time I got "We pays us council tax too," or something like that, I don't actually speak Yorkshire. The third time, when all four bays were ICEd, I stopped right in front of the line of them, expecting some fun. However, within about 30 seconds someone had returned to the car at the end, the one I wasn't blocking in, and driven off without me having the chance to say anything. Foiled again!
I’ve done plenty of longer journeys and never had this problem, it’s December 22 model. Maybe it’s a change in the later V2 variant.
Mine is phase 1 too. But when I got it the dealer did say something about driver alertness monitoring. I remember wagging my finger at the car and saying, "are you going to get judgmental on me?" but nothing has ever happened.