Blake, I won't go through all of your posts individually but I'll put in some overall comments. Bevel Box these I know are supplied by a well know differential manufacturer and despite many being returned it appears that they still struggle to get the product right all the time for road cars. I had a colleague with an R500 ho has the same problem
Seems the issues of noise aren't as sensitive in the normal diffs they engineer for race cars. I've been at the factory and witnessed a 3w coming back from a road test and being sent for a new bevel box as the tester suspected it wouldn't quieten down, I think this is the challenge for the factory as they all appear to make some noise from the off,but its guess work determining if this will get better or not. Last time I was at the factory they seemed to be trying to produce some scientific method of testing to race the mk1 ear drum.
The factory do view the site but I don't think you'll find any comment on here. I was with Simon and a couple of MMC guys today and we did discuss your issues.
The issues of quality are obviously important to all businesses and deano makes some valid comments about cost I think we'd all love to have our cars come out of the factory 100% but then what would we all have to do, we have no DaveW how to posts.
In one of the offices at the factory they have a graph showing warranty claims ( they'll move it now you watch) next time I'm over I'll have a look. But to get this perspective when developing the 3 wheeler MMC were trying to get 5000 miles on the development car I suspect if it was a BMW it would have been 500,000 and a 2 year shake down process. I think it was Steven 1560 who best summed it up when he said we're all part of the customer prototype programme.
Maybe they need to include this line in the marketing material.
I do hope you get you're problems resolved and back in love with the 3w if only so I can see more pictures of your 3 wheeler around San Francisco.
