Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Classic Morgans (pre-CX) Stress cracked windscreen

I ran a 1994 +8 for four years until I replaced it with my 4/4 Sport in 2009 with no record of any replacement before or during my tenure. Considering the torsional forces at work on the body being transmitted through the body flexing onto the windscreen mounts of this considerably heavier car it makes one wonder what has gone wrong with the 4/4 Sport windscreen arrangement.

I believe Charles Morgans "Management Silence" when asked a direct and fair question during a recent factory visit regarding this matter speaks volumes.
Cynically it tells me his bean counters have been at work and provided him with the recall figures to fix the problem and he found it unacceptable unsurprisingly.
My cynicism is based on 43 years experience in an engineering environment which is always realistic albeit unpopular at times.

I have not heard of a Roadster screen cracking other than possibly yours, there have been an odd +4 but the Sport has a recurring problem as a few of us have found. For this reason I'm open minded about the heated screen theory as surely we would have had a few more failures on these other "heated" models possibly.

Only when I mentioned getting an Independent Engineers Report upon my 2nd failure did the Factory agree to replace the screen at my dealers instead of the Insurance route, this I believe was also telling a story in itself.

The replacement of the screen mounts for a more rigid construction is the clue I feel but time will reveal the truth if not Charles.