Talk Morgan Forums Thread Like Summary - Nine Months and 4,00 miles in a Model year 2023 Pl

So, how have the first 9 months and 4,000 miles fared? To be honest, it's been akin to being part of a 1960s Spaghetti Western – the car has experienced highs, lows, and perhaps even some unpredictable moments. Over the nine months of ownership, the car spent around 2 months either back at the Morgan Factory or with my local dealer. Despite this, it embarked on a fantastic touring holiday of the Picos de Europa, Andorra, and the Pyrenees, as well as numerous UK breaks and runs, garnering admiration and photographs wherever it went and has given much pleasure to me its current custodian.

Let's delve into the good, the bad, and the ugly of my ownership.

Starting with the good, the MY23 dynamic additions to the Plus Six have enhanced the driving experience compared to my first Plus Six. The new brakes are both progressive and powerful, effectively bringing the car to a halt without any noticeable fade with limited pedal travel. The new suspension dampers and bushes provide an excellent ride with minimal body roll and exceptional grip on sharp corners. The reconfigured automatic gearbox proved to be a delight, intelligently adapting to the car’s circumstances. These enhancements made driving on the Col De Touralet, the highest road in the central Pyrenees and part of the Tour De France route, an absolute joy. I have yet to test the Electronic Stability Control program or the airbags, and have no plans to do so in the foreseeable future!

The new interior has also been a positive aspect. The comfort-plus seats and steering wheel are comfortable even after extended drives, although the aesthetics of the steering wheel leave something to be desired. The new liquid display screen is now visible with polarizing sunglasses although the LED Warning Bar is obscured by the top of the steering wheel, and the Sennheiser audio system is brilliant, providing excellent music quality at 60 mph even with the roof down.

However, the new interior and dashboard present missed opportunities. The placement of switches for the heated seats deep in the footwell is inconvenient, could these not have been placed on the dashboard or centre console and the clock's different wattage bulbs to the other instruments make it too dim at night to see. Additionally, the instrument dimmer switch doesn't adjust the panel illumination linearly, they are either bright or not very bright with nothing in between.

Over 4,000 miles, the car has returned an impressive 39 mpg across various driving scenarios. For a 3 ltr 335 bhp car, this is commendable. However, the small 8.35 UK gallon fuel tank capacity raises some range anxiety. Although the car should have a range of 325 miles, the low fuel warning light comes on between 220 and 240 miles, suggesting not all tank capacity is usable.

Unfortunately, my experience with the Morgan Plus Six has been marred by a combination of poor build and parts quality. In my nine months of ownership, the car had to be returned to the Morgan factory for rectifications to the doors and hood, both of which did not fit correctly, allowing water and a gale into the car. My dealer, as always very helpful, had to both repair and re-gas the air conditioning multiple times, fix a failed radiator, replace a broken front cowl, and respray part of the nearside rear wing due to incorrectly fitted beading damaging the paintwork.

As is the case with all items in Morgan's option list—many of which were once standard features on earlier Morgans—several are remarkably expensive. However, paying £295 for a Model Logo on the dashboard, which turned out to resemble a 50p eBay sticker, seems, to me, to push the boundaries of ethical pricing to the limit

In summary, the CX platform Morgan is undoubtedly a great car, as expected at its £100K price point. However, it is severely let down by poor build quality and a seeming lack of attention to detail in certain aspects of its specification, build and quality assurance before the car leaves the factory.

Well I don’t post here often but I do feel compelled to reply. Probably repeating myself and not wishing to come across as to smug, but I am obviously the real lucky Plus 6 morgan owner as mine just keeps getting better!
19 plate ex factory car, hard top on for winter .
Running on winter tyres currently .
Heading towards 30,000 miles.
Uses no oil or water .
Never had radiator fail.
Aircon never re gassed and the aircon is on permanently, never switched it off.
Gets thrashed to death, average mpg on dash last week 23 mpg.
Always in Sport mode, and sport plus as soon as I’m out of town (addicted to power and pops and bangs).
Used in all weathers and is currently filthier than the farm truck but in my eyes looks cool.
Totally comfortable with no traction control,cos it’s driven all the time, so you get used to it and learn to feel for grip.
It gets out of shape over big bumps and humps, at speed in wet or dry, but it teaches you when to back off.
It is looked after by the factory, they know my first name, not because I’m always there , but they seem to have an interest in my abused higher milage 6.
Only things ever done was the Overseer light came on once after Castle Coombe track day , fixed next day in an hour and windscreen wiper flew off on M5 in rain, rang factory, fitted and gone in half hour, no charge.
And no brake issues, 100 mph plus, full hard breaking stops you in seconds.
And mine doesn’t leak, and doors not draughty, as they up graded door seals for free.

So is it a case of the more you use , the less you lose?

And one last thing, the member who last sent me a private message many month ago about my last post claiming I worked for the Italians!! I can assure you all , I definitely don’t 😁

Hi Andy, At first I thought the factory set up was fine, but given some time using the car we thought the factory suspension on our Plus Six felt that the rear did not work well with the front when cornering, over bumps and hard road camber changes. Although the suspension worked it did not feel that right.

The SSL kit replaces front and back coil overs using their own designed spring rates and Spax adjustable shocks, in addition, the front roll bar has a different drop link fitted that changes how the front roll bar interacts with the suspension.
The overall result feels like the front is more planted without the hard jolts, the rear feels slightly harder sprung. The rear now seems to work with the front when cornering and overall it feels much more planted and smooth.

We also try to use our car for touring and have had no grounding issues fully loaded with luggage, passenger and driver since the SSL kit was fitted. It copes well with the extra luggage weight on the rear.

I would drop Peter Ballard an email at design@suspensionsupplies.co.uk I am sure he would discuss with you the spec and setup of the SSL kit for the Plus Six. I sent SSL several emails before we decided to go with their kit.

If you do a search on this forum there are a couple of threads ref the SSL upgrade.

Hope this helps.
Dave

From my experience the original set up was a little agricultural and traditional in feel, if you like to drive slow in fast out on good tarmac it's fine, also the rear would sag with two up and loaded with luggage on a weekend trip. The SSL set up feels very different with near neutral handling in the bends on dry roads and does not sag when fully loaded, the ride quality is also superior as the jolts over poor surfaces are smoothed out.
I have my shocks on mid setting and have not felt the need to adjust them.
I fitted mine in around 5 hours just taking my time and had no problems.

Good to see owners using their CX cars and after driving all MY of CX the MY23 is a world apart compared to the 1st gen, although as some have noted not with out its problems. Williams will be offering upgrades soon to further enhance the 23 and bring the 21/22 cars up a notch.