Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Morgan Three Wheeler & Super 3 Chassis upgrade kit for pre 2014 M3W

Hmm, well I took both my granddaughters for a spin in mine. I wouldn't have done that if I considered it unsafe. The smaller one even went to sleep on the way back from Bude.

I have 2 concerns:-
1
a) Do we (or for that matter MMC) know for sure that the new built-in stiffener will cure the problem of fatigue cracking in the early chassis's once and for all?
b) By the same token do we (or MMC) know for sure that the cracking problem is not going to manifest itself in the later chassis's?
Unless extensive testing and/or computer simulation has been carried out by MMC (which I doubt), I believe both the above have not been around long enough (or covered enough miles) to prove they will be OK in the long term.
A cracked chassis could result in the car swerving either into a ditch or into oncoming traffic.

2) My other concern is the high number of timing belt breakages (many at below 10,000 miles) when this would obviously bring the car to a halt with no warning.
If this were to happen in the outside lane of a busy motoway the results could be disastrous.
I would have thought that it would have been fairly straightforward to have the camshafts driven by spur gears which was common practice in the British motorcycle industry and lasted the life of the motorcycle. It may be a bit noisyer but this would have been a small price to pay for greatly increased reliability and safety. S&S would also not have incurred the costs and time required to develop the belt with Gates.

Whilst I have had tremendous pleasure completing the 9,000+ miles so far on my car, my pleasure is now turning the into trepidation at the prospect of one of the above bringing about my premature demise.
And all this from a car for which we all paid a considerable amount of money, in good fath, from a reputable manufacturer, assuming all the bugs would have been ironed out before it went to market.

I don't think being concerned that the car might have a breakdown that leads to a serious injury means you should buy a Volvo!

I think we all accept the risks inherent in driving a 3 wheeled (and therefore much less stable) open car, with no roll protection, very little impact protection etc.

Grockle, thanks for your friendly and polite advice, although you're wrong about not having had any of the issues - just not some of the more catastrophic ones. I will ignore it (although I have nothing against Volvos) and please don't offer me any more of your excellent counsel.

Luckily for me, I have another Morgan that allows me to take much longer journeys than the M3W and has been generally very reliable over 8 years - an Aero 8 S3. See - I don't need the Volvo.

Yawn. Get over yourself. Sell the M3W and give everyone a break

Hey, please keep it friendly & respectful.