My 2020 MG ZS EV BROKE DOWN but a simple tool saved the day.
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Was not expecting to need to make a video like this quite so soon - had quite the experience trying to charge my 2020 MG ZS EV at the new MFG EV Power 150kW chargers at M6 J27 (Crow Orchard).
Thankfully managed to get going again by disconnecting and reconnecting the 12v battery. Would strongly recommend carrying a 10mm spanner in case this happens to you!
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This kind of need for intervention is deliberately built in to maintain the spirit of the MG brand.
It's character building. Requires the stiff upper lip and resourcefulness which were once indisputably requisite traits of the British man.
There's nothing more British than a minor breakdown on a six month old car, flying by the seat of your pants.
BUY BRITISH, FLY THE FLAG.
Genius! The car should include a flat cap and a pack of brown ale.
And a pipe and deerstalker hat.
They should give a Full English with the car. Shame about your experiences but hopefully the charger suppliers will investigate and fix.
Please, please ignore the Fanboys and continue giving honest, balanced reports on your experiences. This is what is of real value to prospective buyers. No point trying to cater for blinkered, brand-worshipping zealots, since their minds are already made up and nothing you say or do will make.any difference to them.
It works!!! Many thanks for sharing... I got the MG today, after driving a bit I decided to try the public charging nearby (Europe - Luxembourg). I connected for about 15 min on a slow charge, then I realized that just a few meters away there was a fast charger, so I unplugged from the slower one, moved to the fast charger, connected, and after 2 min the charging stopped. I pressed the start button and got the System Fault HV Battery... I did not panic... I googled and found this video, called the missus and she came to the rescue with the 10mm spanner... unplugged the (-) of the 12v battery for about 5min, reconnected and SURPRISE....System Ready!! Many thanks for sharing and shame to MG for not having fixed this in a new car delivered in August 2023.
Oof - I’m surprised to hear this is still an issue! Glad it was helpful though.
This is really interesting. Since recently changing (and obviously disconnecting) the 12v battery in my four year old Kia Soul, the car's running a whole lot better. I reckon your real-life real-world videos are a breath of fresh air in the UA-cam EVsphere. Can't thank you enough. An appropriate spanner is now safely tucked up in the glove compartment, and I can't thank you enough for that as well!
you had bad luck but prescence of mind saved the day. saved you from a long wait for the aa .good video thank you
The power of logical thought saved the day, well done fella.
Thanks for the more than useful advice.
The 10mm spanner trick is not just an EV thing. A few years ago, the wife's Aygo suddenly died about a mile from the house & one of the engine fault lights came on (can't remember which one). Engine point blank refuses to restart! AA called, guy arrives, has a look & without a moment's hesitation, disconnects the battery, waits a couple of minutes then reconnects it. Gets inside, turns the ignition key & the engine fires first time. Tells us to ask the garage to clear the fault next time we take it in for a service & off he tootles. Nothing quite beats the 'turn it off & turn it on again' strategy for solving most electrical problems...
30 years in IT, turn it off and on again fixes so many problems. Including, it appears, electric cars. Who knew!
Considering the amount of IT in any modern car, especially an EV, not totally surprising :-)
Thank you for this! I will be putting my small spanner set in the car in the morning. Far from being criticised people need to thank you. It could happen to any one of us. Being disabled, being stuck in a cold car for the same reason would be hell for me, so thank you!
Great videos and keep them coming!
I am SO glad I saw this one in particular. I bought an MG5 in April and have been totally happy with it. I live in Edinburgh and our first long distance trip was to visit my daughter in Birmingham. This subjected my wife and me to the joys of public charging when going long distance! Our first stop in Tebay was at a Polar/BP Pulse rapid charger which started up and charged the car just fine. Unfortunately when I stopped the charge, had a problem disconnecting the cable and the cars system got screwed. Your 10mm spanner solution saved the day for us! A big thanks for that one!
I did subsequently find that in the audio system settings there is the ability to do a factory reset which may have achieved the same thing as disconnecting the 12V battery. Haven't been able to verify this ast I haven't had any other charging problems that needed to do this.
Thanks again for the videos - keep up the good work!
A big thank you fella! Your vid bailed us out when we were stuck on the A303 heading back from an xmas stay at the in-laws. Thanks to you, we escaped their evil clutches without the aid of the AA and will now always travel in our MG ZS equipped with a handy 10mm snap-on. Keep up the excellent work.
Constructive criticism is always good. Keep up the good work.
10 mm spanner always the one that goes missing from the tool box
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Yup 😁
Just got to hammer another old joke over that one and that's all of the spanner jokes done!
I recently had a similar issue. Plugged into a charger, had to call a number to start the charge, it wouldn't start, the operator said there was an error on the machine and to go to a different one, I unplugged and went to drive off but my car wouldn't move. The car (MG ZS) wouldn't even turn off or let me lock the car, it was just sort of frozen. 12v battery showed slightly lower than it had been showing so a guy tried to jump-start the 12v battery, nothing. I ended up calling the breakdown company. 20 minutes later the car randomly started working again so I cancelled the breakdown and carried on with my journey, it was the weirdest thing. While I was waiting someone else used the charger using an RFID card and it worked absolutely fine for them.
Always keep a tool kit in the car habit from the mk 1 Cortina days
I've seen a few people having to do this with the mg.
I always have a full range of tools in my car and regularly i find myself helping people who need a simple thing but just don't have the tools for it
Some of my ICE cars needed what one mechanic i went to called Swedish restart which was exactly what you did
But nice to know the Swedish restart will work also on my MG when I finely get it
And I like that you share the good the bad and the day to day
Always keep few basic spanners small hammer and other basic tools in the car
Save you sometimes waiting hours for AAA or equivalent
A bit off topic. But my clutch went at the seaside once, so (thinking it was the master cylinder) called the RAC out! The lady on the other end said someone would be out within an hour, so we went to lunch! 2 hours later a patrolman turned up, the RAC thinking it was probably a flat battery, so didn't initially call for recovery! After a bit he said he wouldn't be able to help so called for recovery. This took another 4 hours to turn up and we made it back home at 10pm!
So take that spanner and frame it mate! It saved you an awful lot of time and stress!
Keep going with the updates on the ZS EV! It's probably the best option (2nd hand) that a lot of us have, in affordability!
I once had my exhaust disconnect at the front. 11pm at night. This was in the days before mobiles. Had to walk for an hour to reach a garage to call the RAC. Told them exactly the same. Reinforced the point I needed a flatbed, unless they planned to reverse it all the way home. 1 hour walk back to car. Further hour for bloke to come out in a van. Took one look and said "you need a flatbed 🤦♂️
Further 2 hours for flatbed to arrive. Got home at 6am the following morning. Aah, the 80s! 😁
Really informative. Thank you. Rummaging in my toolbox as we speak!
Glad you reported this as I had exactly the same problem but with my home charger last week. Didn't disconnect battery though, just waited and it was OK next day. I have contacted my wallbox installer to check it out as been having trouble with it for a couple of weeks.
A similar situation was quite common in early Zoes. The answer was to lock everything up and leave the car for a few minutes. This allows the car to do a reset. After the pause unlock and all should be hunky dory.
Yes sounds like the infamous “battery charging impossible” error I’ve seen on my Zoe
@@AndrewEbling Yeah, was quite common on the Polar rapids for me. The one in Wrexham (at the hotel) b*ggered my car and then died itself. Ah happy days.
Good video mate, thanks for your honesty. Funnily enough this happened to me today at a BP and your fix worked thankfully. Not sure what I'd have done if I hadn't seen this a few days ago 👍
Thanks for this video, I have the 10mm spanner in readiness for past few months, good advice, charged up today at at another MFG station in London, no problem.
Excellent - well done - thanks for the info - I pick up my (first) ZS EV tomorrow - Spanner at the ready!
I have the same issue but I tried to reconnect and charge multiple times then ended up getting a tow home. I tried to disconnect the negative for a few mins then reconnected it but to no avail. Still receiving that same error. Will try to leave it off over night and see what happens.
I put a 10mm spanner in the boot first week after reading the Facebook forum. I also bought a device that allows you to disconnect the battery with a screw knob. Haven't installed it yet - though I'd do it when/if I have the same problem you experienced
Not sure i would change the terminal - might have warranty implications
Me too.
I frequently use eVolt (Swarco) rapids (Chargeplace Scotland). If I ever have a problem, it is eVolt rapids that refuse to work and need reset. Never had a problem with any other rapid. Haven't had the problem with the battery you have had either even with eVolt. eVolt also takes WAY longer to start charging once connected than ANY other brand of charger I use.
Thanks for sharing your experience , I’ve just took delivery of the MG5 and interestingly I was told to use the supplied granny charger from time to time as it’s better for the batteries or BMS battery management system.
Great video, honesty is key, especially as some poor EV owner (newbie or not) will defo have the same issue sometime, and come across your video, in a desperate search.. keep it up!
Wow, well done. This tip now stored away for future use. I wish it didn’t feel as if EV drivers are still having to do software Beta testing.
Watched a Bjorn Nyland video last night in which he had a similar issue with the Peugeot e208. As you were recounting the incident, this was the first thing I thought of. If I hadn't have seen this previously I would have not thought about it and called the AA/RAC
This is awesome advice. I will put a tool in our ev when we get it. Thanks for this info!
Have had it fail to connect a few times, but only once has it caused any issues (couldn't unplug the car, had to lift the bonnet and use the manual release).
My old diesel car had a full toolkit in the back. Since I've got the ZS, I've chucked in some spanners, a mini socket set, some gaffa tape, and a selection of screwdrivers. Anything more involved that can't be fixed with those would probably require a recovery truck anyway.
Wouldn’t expect to need half of that lot with a new car that’s under warranty! But I suppose anything that saves waiting for the big yellow taxi is a good thing 👌
That has happened to me a few years back in my Nissan Leaf. I do boke at the cost of some public chargers as I have no access to home charging
Thanks for the advice, I will bring a 10 mm. Spanner from now on in my ZS EV.
Thanks for this. I rarely use public charging, but I've just got a 10mm spanner out of my loft. Hopefully I'll never need it, but who knows.
It's another thank you from me. I would have called the AA. I will be putting a 10mm spanner in my MG ZS EV tomorrow!
I had exactly the same issue at a Swarco rapid in my MG5 and had to disconnect the 12v to reset the car. This from experience happens sometimes, over 8 years driving and riding ev, it is usually the car not the rapid (can be a combination of both though and this time it was definitely the rapid) and have had this happen in both my previous Nissan Leafs and my MG ZS. Always carry a small tool kit or multi tool, duct tape, bungees, fold up shovel, snow socks (can help you get out of muddy fields too), jump leads, tow rope................... 🙃
..... I was on a 455 round mile trip to Cornwall that started with the charge flap refusing to open the night before! The emergency release cable wouldn’t work so I had to force the flap open breaking the catch (the duct tape came in handy) and had to fix a slow puncture in a rear tyre 😳. The rest of the week including 120 miles driving in Cornwall went with no issues with Genie rapids, Pod-Point (free) Tesco charging and free 7kw Genie at the Truro park and ride car park so all good.
As a forma petrol station owner, I can tell you infrastructure costs for charger sites are much less than that of a petrol stations. There is a fair charging price premium for charging away from home. I would say many sites are price gouging. Why is it so complicated to charge a car. At home you plug the car in and that`s it. Messing about with apps is a joke, imagine doing that every time you went to fill with petrol/diesel or going to buy a pint of milk, there would be a riot of protests.
Setup costs will obviously be higher for an entire petrol station however it'll also have potential for a far greater throughput. Agree with you on the complication of apps etc, thankfully most networks now seem to be embracing contactless payment which is exactly how it should be.
Good on you Mate for tell all of us how it is, I'm on the fence about buying one of these vehicles mainly as we are in April now and the dealer wants to fob off a 2020 built ZS EV at the full retail price. My complaint is the depreciation on this 2020 manufactured vehicle when I drive it off the dealer lot and the dealer said they have tight margins so no discount, so I will wait a few months for the 2021 manufactured stock to arrive or might leave it all together until 2022 when the ZS EV will get an update. It's a pity at the stage we will not be getting the Marvel R in Australia, this would be a better buy I think. Every other dealer is having a 2020 plate clearance to move their 2020 produced stock, I think MG dealers here are going to have a lot of 2020 stock sitting on their lots that they own, gathering dust if they don't discount these vehicles into 2021. It roughly takes 6 weeks for vehicles to come from China to Australia and one dealer has a 2021 produced model already in their dealership just not a ZS EV. Thanks for keeping us all informed and keep up the great UA-cam chanel.
I totally agree with you on the charging costs. I think EV owners, particularly those of us that have been driving EV's for some time now got spoilt at the start with the likes of the Electric Highway being free. But rapid chargers and associated infrastructure does not come cheap and needs to be paid for. It's still much cheaper than petrol on all but the Ionity chargers. As for the old Zoe's, I think it's unreasonable to expect new chargers going forward to cater for one specific old model it's a lot of money for not many cars, lots of which will be reaching the end of their useful lives soon.
Have you seen Nikki’s recent video on Transport Evolved, she makes a good case for having 7 or 11 kW AC chargers installed at all rapid charger sites as backup if/when then DC fails. At least help those with low SOC to get to the next rapid charger without having to wait overnight on a granny charger!
@@stewartcameron3595 No I hadn't but it's a great idea. Relatively cheap to implement and a reassuring safety net for us EV owners.
Just in the process of planning a long trip with multiple charge stops, time to get online and get a 10mm spanner, better to have it and not need it... Also I should probably should check the screenwash too, based on your previous videos!
😂 fail to check the screenwash at your (financial) peril! Good luck with the trip - I’m sure it’ll be just fine though. All of my other charging stops were far more dull
That was interesting. Those chargers are just down the road from where I live so thanks for the heads up. I have a Corsa e and I have not had that problem. You have probably heard of a guy called Tesla Bjorn from Norway. When he tested the e208 which is identical underneath to mine, his car did a similar thing a couple of times. He discontinued the 12 volt battery using the flip off connection (no spanner) and that cured it. So at least I don’t need a spanner. Thanks for your vlog and keep up the good work.😎
My MG ZS EV died this morning at an Osprey 50Kw charger today, plugged in as we normally as were getting low to initiate charge but wouldnt charge. In the end unplugged to try the charger bay next to this one but car would not move and gave error 'Vehicle Control Systems Fault. Please stop safely' another MG owner turned up while waiting for the AA with an older model mine is 3 months old 22 plate. Tried disconnecting the battery leaving it for 10mins etc and putting back on but the error remained. AA came out and tried the same and the car wouldn't even communicate with their tester boxes to get the error codes. In the end the car had to be towed to nearest MG dealer and just a few minutes before they arrived a host of errors appeared on screen, even airbag faults, vacuum fault everything the car was trying to check for and the cars power died completely. we were able to get the power back briefly unplugging the 12v and then back on again to put the windows up and remove the parking break while they pushed the car out ready to be on the truck but then the power died again. Tow truck operator put the battery boost on the 12v and suddenly all the systems came back online apart from the main HV so maybe this was a crappy new 12v battery causing all these issues? wont know until its fixed in the next few days but considering this is a brand new car and has already broken down and bricked not good.
Good tip. I would have put the incident in the 'breakdown' column.
Thank you for sharing your honest experience 😙👍🏼👍🏼👏🏻
I'm about to own this model of EV. But from my ancient wisdom of circuitry, it sounds like a pin fault on the charger side connector. Possibly the sense pin is saying "I'm connected, safe to send electrons", but one of the other pins on the male plug is slighted damaged, so isn't providing adequate conductance, forcing a trip situation, completely taking the HV breakers out of circuit.
From the amount of times I've read about this happening on the Facebook MG ZS EV group, it sounds like a built in safety feature, but perhaps a reset button for the breakers would have been more appropriate.
Hi from Edinburgh!
I’ve now got a 10mm spanner in the car...........TYVM !
Think its time to fit a blade switch quick 12v disconnect and put the 10mm spanner back in your tool box.
I think Bjorn Nyland had a similar problem when testing a Peugeot E208. He disconnected the 12 volt and reconnected it and hey presto it worked. The computer equivalent of turning it off and on again? Great tip - well worth remembering this, and not just for the MG.PS the most searched item on eBay will be a10mm spanner following this, you should be on commission! Cheers.
I have had this problem on a number of occasions. Wouldn’t let me start and hv shut off on screen. Had to switch on and off about 20 times and wait for up to an hour before it seemed to reset itself
Only major error messages I've had on my Leaf stemmed from a low 12v battery. Drove through a kerb deep puddle one evening and some water obviously got somewhere it shouldn't and earthed the 12v system somewhere. Fired up the car in the morning to see "T/M Vehicle System Malfunction Visit dealer". Took the battery out and gave it a charge, put it back in and the error disappeared.
Just popped out and put a 20mm spanner in the car in the knowledge that now I have one I will never need it thanks for the heads up
10mm !!!
I'm sure somone else have given this answer but anyway my two cents:
1. I would have used the spanner, it is the fast way to reset the car I tell you why I know later on.
2. If one locks the car and go so far away that the keyfob does not communicate with the car while in your pocket (20m should do it), wait 10 minutts and then try to go back and restart the car. This normaly works because the system automaticly resets itself on MGs when the keyfob is out of reach for some time.
How I learned this you say? Because a MG Marvel R desided to die on me while waiting to get infront of a fast charger and I was fidling about whit the settings to get the 360 camera on. It suddenly desided the car was plugged in the charger while not beeing so (crasy, the dealer was not beliving their own eyes).
I did want to reset it with taking of the 12v minus pole (always take ground if first of a dc battery, but remember some cars have positive ground so be aware). But did not have tools to do so, anyway I got the dealer to come and drive me to my car anyway so rest of the story I got some days later.
When the towing company came to collect the car, it fired straight up (keyfob was left behind in the nearby petrol station). That's how the dealer and I learned at bit more abaut MG evs.😁
Had the same problem once with my ZS EV at a polar charger, battery state was very low 9% when connected to the charger. Only charged to 20% to get home. Finished the charge all good but than the HV would not turn on. Switched the car off, locked and unlocked with myself in it, tried again and it did the trick. Hope it helps others.18k miles in 10 months no other issue. Come on Marvel R
Wonders how much it would cost to have a breaker switch wired into the 12v line.. Maybe manufactures should do it as standard, i remember the days of Fords having a "bump" switch fitted to the fuel pump. hit a speed bump too hard.. 50 yrds later you grind to a halt without a clue as to why
I found your vid informative and real world issues no matter how minor or major need to be shown, you never know who might need it, its not like a haynes manual exists yet
An Ecotricity charger once caused my MG eZS to come up with loads of errors, luckily it was still drivable.
"Why is public charging so difficult?" - I thought Instavolt had the answer, with reliable contactless-payment chargers and always installed in multiples, but even they aren't 100%, as I found recently in Birmingham when one ignored my payment card and the other actually said it had a fault. Anyway, will check the battery terminals on my LEAF and get a suitable spanner shortly - thanks for the tip!
Might be worth ordering a ChargePoint RFID card if you’re a regular Instavolt user - yes it’s another account to maintain but it’s a good backup + you can check on charging progress in their app. First card is free and it doesn’t take any payment from you until you use it to start a charge.
No problems with my MG EV after a year, but iv just put a 10mm spanner in the boot just in case, cheers mate. You never know the MG may well have been protecting itself from a faulty charger deliberately shutting itself down, the car is a lot smarter than we realise.
That’s good advice about the 10mm spanner 🔧 I have a MG5 all well so far keep up the honest feedback only the fanboys do not like it the rest of us appreciate it 👍
Thanks for the info could save a lot of hassel
Always always have a small tool roll in car. My wife has a new MG ZS EV so it's a forgone conclusion I've put a small tool kit together. I'm currently driving a mild Hybrid Kia Sportage. But in the next 12 to 18 months will be going full EV.
Keep us informed as forewarned is forearmed😉😁
Calling the AA before you try a hard reset of your vehicle to remove error messages. Is almost as bad as calling the AA to replace a defective tyre, because you don't know or can't be bothered to change it. It's simple good practice. And something everyone should know how to do before they even set foot behind the wheel of a vehicle...
Are you for real? 😂 “trying a hard reset of your vehicle” isn’t something that anyone driving an ICE car would ever have remotely contemplated (nor would it make any difference most of the time - engine fault codes are persistent and disconnecting the 12v battery doesn’t clear them) yet you’re suggesting it’s an obvious practise that every driver should already be aware of? 😳
Whats the warning brake sign on the dash when you are doing 35mph all the time telling you to slow down keeps coming up
I'll be doing my first CCS charge soon and a 10mm spanner will be in the boot.
Just going to the garage to find a spanner....😎
The real problem here is the handshake protocol of the CCS charging system, there seems to be a loose definition in some areas. The MG and the Jaguar iPace both seem to have had problems. Mine has 'crapped out' when going from full charge to 16kW at 80% or so. Polars give a 'Translation Error' which requires a reset from BPC. And Osprey has been flaky at times. I don't like your clickbait titles and thumbnails but your content has improved...I, like you will be critical.
Nothing wrong with honesty. That's how new products are improved, and you're not the only person to raise this point. Besides it's not a cheap car!
Just ordered a 10mm spanner. Thanks for the tip! And by the way, always be critical, fanboys be damned 😎
Yup. I've got a 10mm for my old Fluence. It has kittens and needs the battery disconnecting overnight if I even remove a fuse.
How is Fluence ownership treating you? I’ve recently acquired a Kangoo ZE which is definitely from the same stable of dodgy battery lease Renault goodness.
@@ModernHeroes I love the car. I bought the battery last year for £2300. It helps my range to only charge at 8 amps
Thanks for the "Heads-up" I can take a 10mm just to be Safe and I'm an MG5 owner and welcome constructive criticism any time!!!!
I have a ten mill spanner in my glove box, another great vid👍
I found that the old 50kwh chargers are faster than the 150 or higher chargers
I suspect the charging company might need to do more extensive testing during development. That's typical of what happens. Or even a contact break with poor connector quality as it plugs into the car. That would cause a hang-up for sure.
Yes it’s a breakdown - it’s what happened to my wife last week. Motability breakdown services have been spectacularly brilliant. I’ll check whether the garage the car is still at has turned it off and on again...
The 150kW is a max available - the ZS only has a 50kW charging system on board.
ZS can actually charge at up to around 75kW - but it’s rare it’ll manage to.
I’ve always been wary about disconnecting the 12V as in the old days it used to lock you out of your radio and had to find a PIN code to unlock, is this not the case these days?
No radio code here. You will lose your presets and it’ll clear the trip computer though!
How did this video get past the snowflake filters?
Thanks for the info. Why always the negative terminal?
In negative Earth systems you greatly reduce the risk of shorting things out by disconnecting the negative first
Same thing here,at cyc King's Lynn, charger stopped at 50%, when I tried to reset,it came up with same fault as you got! Called AA, (came out with Van), "mechanic" didn't have a clue,so two hours later a flat bed arrived and took me home (100 miles)! Dealer picked up next day, dropped off a brand new zs petrol loner, turned out they blamed the charger. Had my car two days btw.
Yikes. Sorry to hear that - I do think it’s gonna be one of those rock and a hard place situations where the car manufacturer blames the charger and the charger operator blames the car 😔
i have had 2 chargers fail and the car came up with charger fail message. but the car had no problem starting
these two fails were due both times a car using chadamo connecting to my charger and so stopped my charge. which then game me the message.
my channel looks at my ioniq it shows the good and the bad as it should be a constant everything is roses is total xxxxxxxx
no car at no price is ever 100 per cent perfect. so the truth is always best
I had to resort to this after the car refused to charge on any charger.It then flattened the 12v battery as it was pulling a 5amp load even when the car was switched off.So disconnected the 12v and charged it separately and got it back to the dealer.The problem was moisture getting into a connection on the HV side.They cleaned the contacts and applied a water repellent jelly round it.I'm not sure if you might have a similar problem as my problem started with it becoming more difficult to charge and cutting off chargers.I think the car is great but moisture getting into some plugs might be a potential problem further down the line.
I live just round the corner from there and used 2 time but always have to phone to stop charging and the fact I'm was a BP pulse member and pb get them installed at a pb garage
It’s because the garage is run by MFG rather than BP - my understanding is that BP are actually in the process of installing Pulse rapids at garages they actually own
jeez you sound defeated before you even leave the house....great content though, keep it up.
Sounds like the charger needs a software update! Maybe it’s was trying to pump in 150 KW and the ZS can’t handle that?
I don’t think it got that far - it didn’t actually start charging. Can confirm the one that did work didn’t even get to 50kW never mind 150 😂 (I know the ZS can only take 70-odd)
My mg broke down on the highway and it lasted 5 years without braking down
Well said!
I would have written a warning note and taped it to that dodgy charger.
ive got a e2008 currently in garage been there since the 16th march. after charger at a Tesco pod point 7kw charger I got a message saying charging fault stop the vehicle soon after I drove off, currently with the tech team in France, all I get told from Peugeot is its new technology cars only 3 months old and done 4k miles ffs!
That’s crap 😔- hopefully they’ll get it sorted for you soon!
@@ModernHeroes 🤞they given me a i3 while mine getting repaired great car but going away on the 16th and the boots a little small
@@Paul-en9yh absolutely love our i3 - it’s a bloody riot. Agree it’s not the most practical though!
@@ModernHeroes do love it like! when we first got it the wife thought it was a 3 door trying to work out how to get car seat in back 😂
Keep up the good work mate
I have got one in the door pocket I think
Just be careful not to touch both terminals with the spanner.
I’ll be reviewing mine on my channel. There won’t be any fanboy posts either. I like the car but if there are issues I’ll be posting about them, I can tell you.
Slightly off subject:
Can you fit a towbar?
Even if it is not ‘approved’, is it actually against the law, or do we just fall fowl of insurance requirements
Thanks
I’m not 100% sure. I don’t think insurers would be keen but I’m not sure whether it would actually be illegal.
Should watch Bjorn more he had similiar issues with Peugeout e-208 charging....
Have you reported this problem concerning the charger to MFG EV Power so that they know this problem exists and hopefully can fix it?
Good vid very interesting.👍👍👍
I am sitting on the fence with EVs this isn't filling me with confidence
I hear you - worth pointing out I connected to 7+ other chargers over the same couple of days and it was absolutely fine though!
On the fifth of April I purchased my first ever Ev a 2015 Nissan Leaf what I have owned nearly 1 month ..
I am very much learning with my car .
I always charge at Public chargers at the moment due to lockdown I cannot get an installer out to my home to do a assessment of my requirements & to price up .
Overall my experience this month as a newbie has been interesting but not confidence destroying .
I have had one charger start charging then stop even tho I confirmed charging on the app.
I have also had the same charger ( it has two sockets) when confirm charging on the app then show out of order .
Then just a few days ago had another charger where the light did not work but on the dash show charging but on my dashboard lights ( MK1 Nissan Leaf’s have charging blue lights that you can see what the car is doing from outside ) no blue lights showing , However switching from charger socket B to A and confirm with A got it working .
I have not got any experience of the UK charger network because I live on the Isle of Man 🇮🇲
@@chrisrichmond403 I’m having some issues with PodPoint and my Kangoo ZE 🤔- how long does it charge for before stopping?
@@ModernHeroes It was not long after the 15 min time allowance that pod point give to confirm charge as they charged me 2p for that bit of electric before it went wrong .
Pod point charge 19p per KWh .
I thought it was only us who had a Kangoo and an MGZSEV...
Imho... The issue is the charger in this case.
I had big issues with a VERY popular home charger. It put my Kangoo into RED nose Death mode on many occasions. In the end I got a refund on the charger. Ohme now installed and all perfect since the then.
I could post a scary video where the charger locked the cable to the Van, an 3 day old I Pace and a Zoe... They switched the whole complex down.. 3 hours later the maintenance person was on site .. it's 1am by now... Normally I love an angle grinder... But the choice was our type2 untethered cables or the brand new charger units.... They chose the latter!
Basically all cars can fail. This is not limited to the MG. Having lived with a lot of Land Rovers.... Doing a hard reset was a weekly routine.
I think people do get a bit too precious about their vehicles.. none are perfect. EVs are still quite new really. Many folk almost try to goad you about EV ownership.. usually out of ignorance it must be said.
Good tip on the 10mm spanner. I will stick one on the glovebox today.
If you drive a Land Rover many of us stick a GAP iid tool in the car... £400 for that so a spanner at a £1 is a bargain 👍
Good real world post.. it's just the joys of motoring.. nothing changes really... 30 years ago it was all about your rotor arm or points gap or dizzy cracks... Now it's about Ecu hard resets... We live and learn
Thanks for sharing👍
Imagine of you weren't IT minded (believe it or not, A lot of people aren't)....this definitely counts as a break down, it really doesn't fill me with confidence to even consider making the switch to a full EV.
Sounds like we’re about to go back to the good old days when going for a long distance ride was kind of an adventure. Seems we’re both enjoying some kind of having a technology affinity and are not easily scared off by fickle electronics. My Zoe seems to have got jealous over me riding my Volvo for a couple of weeks and upon retrieving her, she gave me this angry ELEC system fault error flashing at me which is related to the 12V system but could mean anything from one-time hiccup to faulty DC DC converter. After the first mild rush of panic and having searched “the network “, I did just what you did and unplugged the 12V - that remedied the error. So yes, I reckon that faint-hearted drivers would have to call the assistance and end up with having a really bad day and probably losing faith in EV mobility. This must not happen. I demand car makers to harden their electronics to withstand any error condition introduced from the outside, like a faulty charger. And if the vehicle needs human assistance to recover from an error, clear instructions must be given that hopefully do not need to have a wrench available. 🤗 speaking of faulty charges, I really envy you CCS guys. Those DC cables are fixated the pump unlike most Type2 charging options. Imagine winter, centigrades way below zero, around midnight, just got off the Autobahn and looking tho recharge the drained battery at an AC pump just eight kilometers from home,close but not close enough. Plugging in my very own cable, charging, nodding off to sleep, waking up, dash is dark. Ok, Zoe is done charging, more than needed. Also got damn cold inside the car, so let’s go home. Unfortunately, the pump did not release my cable. I had to phone them up to rush on over to release the cable. That took another one and a half hour and the lack of sleep gave me that unique zombie look at work. Is owning an EV an adventure? I’m afraid it still is.
Just got my mg have done 1300km in a week
Did you report issue and put marker on Zapmap?! I'd be Instavolt only if had an EV. Don't fancy trying anywhere else.
I put it on Zap Map but I didn’t mess around ringing the helpline - was more concerned with getting charged and getting back on the road. You can’t go far wrong with Instavolt!
@@ModernHeroes I quite understand why you did not report the problem to MFG EV Power, it is so annoying waiting on a phone just to help out, particularly when you have been stressed out by the charger and in a hurry. But unfortunately if the problems are not reported they will never get fixed even though the operator, I would assume, can see the error on a log in their office. Maybe the protocols should pass the car type during the handshake so the operator can remotely see which make/model of vehicle is having a handshake issue.