I will be collecting Tarka from Williams tomorrow.
The feedback from Henry on the first test run is as follows:
Road tested with dampers at full soft. I would not want to go any softer as if full soft was even softer that would risk not being able to go hard enough for serious track day sessions :-
Harshness felt through the steering wheel mostly gone, before was all the time obvious and the worst complaint, now only slight harshness at legal fast speeds over broken tarmac on A roads.
Still got steering feedback over bumps/potholes. No rubber in the steering system I believe now main effect.
Damping onto and over full width speed bumps feels good. Need no softer low velocity.
Control over long pitch undulations very good at reasonable legal speeds, suspension now actually works but not floating!
Never hit the bump stops, though were not pushing on really hard.
So, all the previous issues resolved, some of this is down to the fitting of new upper and lower ball joints, but the ride comments are down to the new coiler units. I'm looking forward to trying it over roads I know well, in particular a section of Southampton Road where subsidence has caused a series of undulations that caused Tarka to both bottom out, then top out. To be fair the AMGs are not 100% happy at a bit above the national limit over this surface!
SSL will be offering an Aero S4 and later suspension upgrade kit.
Subsequent investigation into replacement suspension upright ball joints reveals that it will not be easy. The joints are bespoke and MMC owns the IP covering the modifications to the standard part.
