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Some of you must have had the issues I faced until the end of last year : sidescreens coating would start crackling after some time (one year on mine to be precise). After lots and lots of complaining to my London dealer, I finally got the car to go back to Malvern for some important checks (including speedometer fix) and got want I'd always asked for: anodized aluminium frames. Of course it took some time as they had to make specially designed ones (?). But the result is quite pleasing: no more crackling! Problem solved! The guys up in Malvern also took the opportunity and fitted seals to keep sidescreens in contact with windscreen. Top notch & thanks MMC !!!  
vMog is a 2013 +4/ 4 seater, dark red with saddle brown trim, wooden dashboard and console.
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Were these the black coated sidescreen frames?
DaveW
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Will, I'll try to see what I have in stock... I'll send more once I get vMog back from Williams in 2 week time ;-)
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Dave
The faulty ones I had were silverish grey painted frames.
vMog is a 2013 +4/ 4 seater, dark red with saddle brown trim, wooden dashboard and console.
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That's interesting because I thought the two options were anodised, or black.
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Not on 4strs, quite unfortunately...
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Well done vMog, top marks for perseverance ! I had the same problem of crackling on the sidescreens. After my experience of getting other issues resolved (including faulty speedo like yours), I thought I'd be wasting my time pursuing the sidescreens. I spent several days over Christmas stripping the coating off and am pleased with the result, but the aluminium is not protected now and takes a bit of maintenance to keep it looking good.
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Richard, did you get your speedo fixed? MMC did fix the problem you should ask them.
Last edited by vMog; 11/05/16 09:51 PM.
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Yes they replaced speedo no problem, thanks for asking. It was their attitude to later issues that hacked me off but I won't repeat them on here again.
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