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Maybe the position of the indicators is fixed by homologation, so everything else has to fit around them?

UPDATE:

As I feared the lack of clearance between exhaust headers and front SUPLEX suspension started to cause damage. The right front shock part that allows us to adjust the pre load (the red circular one, no idea how to call it in English) lost some of its shape already:

You can see that in this picture, sorry for the low quality



Anyway, the UK license plate finally expired last Oct. 31st, request for a PT license plate has been made a couple of weeks ago and should be days to get it now. So the car is parked in my garage, along with its older brother ...




... and I told the dealer that I wouldn't take it out until some kind of solution was found to all this. Since he was going to the dealers annual meeting in Malvern I asked my dealer to turn a few "wrongs into "rights", namely (sorted by "seriousness" in decreasing order:


"Wrong" #1
I got the information, since last September, that both MMC and SUPLEX were aware of the clearance issue and that SUPLEX had already made a different (shorter) spring to solve it. (check my post from page 17, top of the page).

However, and although I made this known to my dealer and to MMC immediately after the Caramulo event (where the second set of exhausts cracked) the only thing I got from them was a prompt reaction to the exhaust issue, with a new 3rd set of exhausts quickly arriving to Lisbon. About the suspension, only silence.

This was my absolute main worry, a real deal-braker as far as I was concerned. I made this very clear to my dealer and asked him to make this very clear at Malvern too.


"Wrong" #2
The (ordered by the dealer as his gift to me) photo build record of my M3W had not been delivered and either someone forgot to take the pictures or someone forgot what should be done with them.

"Wrongs" #3 and #4

I will quote the Morgan official webpage on the Brooklands Edition cars:



You guessed it. I didn't get neither the book, nor the annual membership of the Brooklands Trust.


"Wrong" #5

I will readily assume that this is me nitpicking, but the key fob I was given with the M3W keys had "Roadster" written on it. I gave it back to my dealer, told him to give it back to MMC and ask for one with M3W on it. That ... or a Roadster to go along with that key fob. A Brooklands one!




Apart from these complaints, I also asked my dealer to bring me a few M3W parts I wanted to have here, fearing some failure would take me off the road for longer than acceptable.

These parts were: a couple of front inner tubes; a transmission belt; a cam belt.

And ... a couple of SPAX adjustable rear shocks for my Plus 4, first time I moved to upgrade (very lightly) that car from how it was sold to me in 2010.


So ... my dealer has returned from the dealers annual meeting at Malvern and here's what he brought me:



- The Book
- The M3W leather key fob (placed on the cover of the book)
- The two SPAX adjustable rear shocks for the Plus 4
- The cam belt
- The transmission belt
- A pair (one still inside the plastic) of M3W new shorter springs and the "adjustable platforms" - as SUPLEX calls them - that come with them.



Missing still:

- The Certificate of a Annual membership of the Brooklands Trust (but they'll "Right" that "Wrong" soon and my personal details have been meanwhile asked for them to do it);

- The two inner front tubes (promised to be sent soon, they had none for sale at the factory ... odd but true);

- and the photo build record of my car. They protest the pictures were taken, at this point though I fear whatever was made is lost or mixed and untraceable to my specific M3W. A shame.


About the most important parts I got from Malvern, I have to say the adjustable part that comes with the Spring is worrying me.

Look at this:



That "spacer" or whatever that should be called is made of ... plastic. Now, if I understand right where that goes, I think that it will go to the place most close to the exhaust headers.

Now, you already know that they glow, don't you? I will add that they glow even ith the engine in idle and the car stopped, you only have to start it and let it run for a couple of minutes to make it happen.

So ... yes, I'm afraid these parts will melt. And if anyone out there, reading this, already has them fitted to his own M3W, please tell me they won't.

....

To end on a brighter note, Steve Morris personally dedicated and signed my Brooklands book, it is a nice gesture from him, one that I thank him for, with my best wishes for him in his job.

Well, Mario, it's a positive step in the right direction.

The lack of inner tubes is another example of the 'just in time' approach to manufacturing these days. Wholly unsatisfactory really, when a leaking inner tube could put you off the road.

for whatever it's worth regarding the inner tubes, i think the factory purchases the wheels and tires as a set that come to the factory pre mounted therefore short of a car getting a flat during the build process there's not a huge need/demand for the tubes. most tube requests are probably filled directly by the dealer by them buying them direct from the mfg. not making excuses, just thought i'd throw that out there.

hope you get your other bits and the suplex setup sorted. i chicken out on my order and specced the spax setup as i got scared seeing some of the reports on the suplex but will admit i've always lusted after how they look as well as in theory how they should perform.

b

On the Brooklands membership, I got my car in Jan 13 and in Jan 14 Mog magazine started to turn up! Maybe you just needed to wait

I just do not understand how any business could be quite so disorganised, they seem not to care, although I think, they think they do [if that makes sense?]

Your whole sorry episode smacks of a complete lack of customer care Mario. They should have known that, whatever happened to you, good or bad, would be made public, and I'm afraid they have not come out well from start to finish, and not for the first time. What a load of incompetents they really are. It is not everyday that someone decides to spend this amount of money on a dream and the least they could do is to ensure that it is not shattered, but they do not seem to be able to do even this. What a shame.

It must have taken a lot for you to post this, as, I am sure, like the rest of us, you must have been hoping against hope that it would all be well, and that the Morgan Motor Company could, at the very least, get this right for you - what a shower they really are!

Mario, you can buy the tubes (and tires) from Blockley. They are very helpful.
inner tubes are TR6 and tires are 400x19
they do send abroad.
blockleytire.com

Yes, I got mine by post from Blockley. Quick and efficient. Miss out the middle man (Morgan).

And, to be honest, you wouldn't normally go to the car manufacturer for tyre tubes or whatever, so Morgan is not likely to have this sorted out. The wheel manufacture is outsourced, of course, and I bet they arrive ready tyred, valved, balanced etc. at the factory.

inner tubes are TR 11 from Blockley...i've just confirmed that with them

was recommended by them TR6 on the 400x19 blockley tires