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Hi Stan, thanks for sharing your experience. I have been addvised that "my" exhausts have arrived and so my M3W is going to the workshop this week. The parts needed to fit them have been delivered a month ago, and thankfully we were able to look through them. Of course some needed parts were missing, the new stiffener panels should be 4 (2 per side) and only 2 were in the box. My dealer asked for the missing parts and I do hope the other 2 panels came within the exhausts package, but we'll see ... and nobody in the workshop had any information on a supposed ECU flash to be performed alonside the fitting of the new exhaust system. I'll hold any comments about it all. In fact, I don't think they're needed.


(this reminded me a "funny" story. During 2015 I asked for the taller roll hoops with padding. Since I was going to Shelsley Walsh Thrill on the Hill I arranged for the roll hoops to be delivered personally to me there. All agreed, when I got there the guy from Aero Racing had ONE roll hoop for me. I didn't bring it home, and asked for the full set to be sent by mail to Portugal. It arrived, can't remember how much time later ... and this time TWO roll hoops were in the package. But ... they were both for the left side of the M3W. Even if one of them could be mounted on the other side, it would have to be mounted facing backwards, wich meant the padding wouldn't be correctly positioned in that one. When another roll hoop was asked (of the right side configuration), my dealer got a reply saying that with some washers added we would be able to fit the padding in a correct position, similar to the other one. That's when I finally gave up.)

It's all so familiar isn't it Mario. And yet somehow they just keep getting away with it, or rather, we let them get away with it whilst throwing large sums of money in their direction.

My father had exactly the same issues with them in the 1940's and 50's. If he knew I'd bought a Morgan he would be spinning in his grave. Mind you we are relatively lucky with the internet and good phone connections. By my reckoning my eight week wait would have been nearer ten to eleven in his day.

Progress of sorts perhaps?

Good luck with your "upgrades". Keep us all posted.

Fantasticly bad service - worth a post on their FB page!

PS: I do like the idea of asymmetric roll hoops though - what a good idea! Should be an option!!!

"Taxed and insured it and after eight weeks of not actually being able to drive it, incidentally missing one of the nicest springs in years" Mirrors my experience waiting 12 weeks for a replacement chassis. My dealer also does their best dealing with a frustrating/quixotic/incompetent MMC.
Despite my car still being in Warranty I was still charged 50% of the cost for a steel pully.

Tim

Good luck Stan - do keep us posted!

So hope it all works out ok for you.

More than a week in now and a couple of decent runs. All looks and feels well, but then you wouldn't expect things to go wrong quite so soon.

We hope for the best of course, but for the life of me I can't really see how the extra bracket, bobbin mounted don't forget, can stop potential cracks in future. The extra flexi joint as previously suggested by several in this thread just seems to be a once and for all solution to my layman's brain.

I do of course wish to be proven completely wrong and that this "fix" is in fact just that.

Here's hoping...

Mine has also been at the factory for the last 8 weeks for exhausts and corrosion repairs. It's coming back on Thursday so hopefully this weather cheers up and I can take it to goodwood.

Let's hope so, the FOS is one of my favourite events. Superb.

I'd be keen to hear your thoughts on the fix when you get it back.

Are there any other Brooklands owners having/had the exhaust fix? Thoughts and opinions if you have.

I'd like to hear any updates on this.

For reasons that are hard to believe and in any case now uninteresting, only now I have in Portugal the full set of parts needed to replace the exhausts that were broken in the 2016 Motorfestival, and to install the new ones, with the extra bracket.

The interesting part in all this is that I have been using the M3W with my reconstructed exhausts featuring an extra flexy joint just in front of the silencer and they are, by far, the ones that have lasted longer without cracks.

Now, today I was called by the workshop with the news that everything is ready for the exhausts swap. But, when I asked about the "ECU Flash", and what was it about, the workshop owner said that he had asked the factory about it and the ECU would have to be sent to Malvern. And that he didn't know, and nobody was able to tell him, what the "flash" was meant to do or what indeed was changed and for what purpose.

This is where I start to fear for my M3W. I don't like to be kept in the dark on what is going to be changed to the car. And my level of trust on whatever is done at Malvern has been put to the test so much I don't really know if I should take the "brain" out of my car and send it there to be meddled with. Maybe I should just order a new one with the new mapping, have it installed here and compare?

I was told that the supplier would deliver my new exhausts (to Morgan I guess) this month. I haven't heard anything so I just emailed the dealer today to see if they have arrived. I'm going to keep my old broken exhausts and get them repaired so that in the future I have a spare set. I'm getting the new mounting brackets installed. I hope they fix the problem.