Thanks Dave - very detailed and helpful. This car is a private sale and has no Morgan or independent warranty.
Appreciate all your help.
Do you have a Morgan dealer near you? If so, is it worth calling them and asking whether they would do a pre-purchase inspection on the car you are looking at, and offer an extended warranty off the back of that? I cannot confirm whether they will but it is worth a call.
I've been around long enough to see plenty of posts complaining about issues on every model of Morgan which has been purchased new, or nearly new. As with most things in life, people who are unhappy tend to post about it, where as people who have few issues with their cars don't. I am not saying the people who have had issues are wrong but, in my humble opinion, that it is unfair to judge anything by simply reading feedback from one section of the customer base.
I've never driven a CX, so cannot comment on how reliable or not they are; however, for reference, my Aero S3, which I purchased new, had so many faults (both factory issues as well as dealer caused ones), I swore I'd never buy another Morgan...
...four Morgans later, well, lets just say they get in your blood.
