Despite MMC carrying out the actual repair for free, we all have had to finance the action of getting the cars to the factory. This was after being told by the factory that on no account should we drive them until the repair had been carried out. Riger and I shared the cost of trailer hire, which with the addition of 2 trips to the factory, cost us over £100.00 each, which the factory were not prepared to reinburse. And after all this MMC are still not able to give us a guarantee that the crack will not re-appear either in the same place or elsewhere. Quoting MLF:- "Truth is though, I just want to enjoy driving this beautiful looking car, enjoy the strange noises, interesting unreliability, and all its other fantastic idiosyncrasies without worrying about rate of propagation of stress fractures in items which should have been designed not to fail in normal use in the first place".
This whole episode does not do much for the confidence of the driver and/or passengers with the possibility of it happening again, resulting in a nasty or fatal accident, and certainly detracts from the driving pleasure we should all be getting from our cars.
