Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Morgan Three Wheeler & Super 3 Bevel Box - How long did yours last?

The painted cowl was a late amendment to my original spec after I saw a couple like it at the Factory. I think it makes the car look far meaner than it might have. Everything else is black, except the luggage rack, which Morgan wouldn't supply powder coated.

The car had been running absolutely great, varying in tone between a tractor and go cart, with lots of other sounds thrown in for good measure, but no whine from the bevel box or any other annoying or worrying noises. Even the bump steer wasn't anything quite as bad as I feared! I was living the dream enjoying our great British heatwave!

A small squeak developed from the back somewhere, but then we stopped for coffee and when we started off again no more squeak - everything normal.

A couple of miles down the road and suddenly a horrendous rattle from the rear, which I initially thought might have been a shredded tyre clattering against the bodywork. Checked underneath, everything fine with tyre and drive belt. Tried to drive on and it made a real harsh scraping noise as if, maybe the belt was rubbing against the mud guard, which it wasn't. The sound stopped if I dipped the clutch. Managed to limp to a pub car park and though about how to get home.

Having been recovered by Green Flag twice in the previous 4 days I was nervous about calling them again and being refused help. Suddenly remembered that the dealer mentioned Morgan Care and had my daughter and niece search www and my unread handbook for their number. Is there really a Morgan Rescue service? - as nothing could be found - only a number for the factory, which of course was on answer phone on a Sunday evening!

Called Green Flag, who sent a very nice mechanic who stripped out the seats and tunnel in his efforts to find the problem. He had me drive up and down the car park, with him in the passenger seat. This was a bit scary with the exposed propshaft right next to my hip. He concluded it was the bevel box, which was making the noise.

Its now hiding in disgrace in my garage, waiting for the dealer to collect.

Warbird get us update to what happens to your m3w,if they change the whole bevel box or fix it and whats the cause for its failure & thanks

The Morgan breakdown service leaves a lot to be desired. A friend of mine who bought his Plus4 from the factory at the same time I did, had some horrendous problems with the breakdown service....it almost made him give up on his Morgan. He was rescued back to his home...a few miles, on Christmas Eve with the only other option to have the car dumped outside RPM and then was sent an invoice for the rescue!

My handbook etc whilst mentioning Morgan Breakdown, has no contact details in it.... Not impressive and not at all professional.

Love your user name Q8morgan. We have a petrol company here in Italy that is called Q8, I assume it has Kuwait ownership. I favour their premium diesel in my other car (Alfa Romeo) because it burns cleaner than anything else I can find. No black smoke behind the car when I put my foot to the floor.

Q8 ? Not you who posted on my three wheeler YouTube video by any chance?

It might be me,im inquiring as much as possible about the m3w
WE need a dealership in kuwait,I'm so worried about m3w breaking down

The car in my video was one of the early ones....Mike Duncan's demonstrator which I had for the day. The bevel box was noisy and was replaced a bit later by the improved one. The placing of my video camera right above it didn't do it any favours and rather exaggerated the sound.

The one thing I noticed on that car was the lack of steering kickback!

How much does the bevel box cost?i hope my m3w doesn't come with any issues

Don't worry too much. Contact with people at Morgan can sometimes be difficult but they are very helpfull. Anything that may go wrong should be reasonably easy for a competent mechanic to resolve. If the bevel box did give a problem I am sure they would be very responsive. I imagine you have someone that deals in American motorcycles and they should be able to help with any engine issues. The gearbox is Mazda and should be 100% reliable and the bevel box should not give any problems now that it has been in production for a while.

Just check all fluid levels before running it for the first time: engine, gearbox, bevel box, and brake fluid. Before it is shipped tell Morgan that you are concerned because you do not yet have a dealer and ask them to be extra carefull that everything is 100% correct.