I was talking to him about the new Morgan and the engine being shared with the Supra and BMW. He showed me a photo of the engine in the Supra covered in stacks of pipes and said they were talking about it at work. It is a pretty complicated engine and Toyota are doing special training programs to certify mechanics to service it, without the training you are not allowed to work on the car. However his employer has said that they don't expect to sell any so are not planning on sending any of the staff on the training programs. Pity as it would be good for him to have some qualifications in a specialist skill. I wonder if Morgan dealers are doing some similar training?
I think it is normal to have dealers engineers trained on specific elements across all brands. When I had the CL600 there were less engineers trained on the V12 so I had to make certain my servicing was on a specific day. Ditto a friend with an M5 V10, he had to use specific dealers exactly as you describe. Having said that the same is sort of true even within Morgan, not all parties have the depth of skills in Aero's from my experience. This is not going to improve so from our point of view staff retention in the resellers and at the factory is going to be a big part of the logevity of these cars (plus the more complex/rare parts availability. I can almost see a time (20 years from now) when a few end up going a bit Mad Max with LS7 and other parts being transplanted due to lack of spares!
I still think they will outlast most other cars of this era.
Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.
