Hi Blake, Thank you for your valuable contribution to the forum. It's a debate that I have read many times on these pages: Buy a mainstream "brochure" car and take it back to the dealer when the tiniest thing is wrong, or a Morgan where you set yourself up for a lifetime of "niggles". It's more like buying a boat: you just expect to have issues and maintaining it is part of the process. We have all become spoilt with the idea you you can buy anything, use it without ever bothering to find out what how it works and then chuck it away when it goes wrong and buy another one. Those of us who venture "off piste" and buy oddities (like a 3 wheeler!) can't expect the same level of "perfection" as machine-produced product. However, it is fair to expect the highest level of craftsmanship with be-spoke products, but it is not fair to expect "perfection". As Boshly has pointed out, the financial equation is very very different for a company like Morgan. The list of small swedish yacht manufacturers that have gone down in the last three years is painful to see: but the "mass-manufacturers" are fine.. It's valuable to Morgan for you to point out to your dealer the problems, in a constructive way. Learning to accept that you will be doing some work on the car is all part of the Morgan Experience - in the boat world it's called "messing about in boats". Enjoy your vehicle: no-one cares about the paint or the gear knob - they just marvel at the quirkiness of it, and your boldness in sinking your money into such a thing.. Oliver S.
