Vehicle Safety Recall MG Motor MGTF (16 March 2011)

Keith Williams · Post by **Keith Williams** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:41 pm

recall notice for MGTF from MG Motor UK. This does NOT apply to Fs or TFs built/sold by MG Rover.

An issue was identified in the suspension set up of a new MGTF. Review suggested it was a one off component specification issue. Another was subsequently found at a dealership. Checking and repairing the car should take 1 - 3 hours. Courtesy car should be provided.
Issued by Keith Harris 16 March 2011.

RC002 v1.02.pdf: Recall notice 16th March 2011; (445.64 KiB) Downloaded 268 times

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:53 pm

Sorry, couldn't resist it.

tanamana · Post by **tanamana** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:07 pm

Oh crap - I wonder if anyone from Sewards will contact me about this. At all. Ever.

In any event, I have emailed Mr H again.

Post by **nigelandjo** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:35 pm

Keith,

That's really helpful

I've had the recall letter from MG Motor UK on Thursday and checked with Keith Harris to see if this recall applied to the 85ths (as I was aware that the earlier recall didn't as the 85th has different suspension). Keith advised that it was all TFs built from 2008. I spoke to the dealer to book ours in for inspection and they were unable to do so as they hadn't received full details of the check/work they had to undertake. Now you've posted the full technical detail I'll be able to check for a yellow dot tomorrow!

Nigel

MGFmad · Post by **MGFmad** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:00 pm

I wonder if the yellow dot is more for future reference to act as an easy reference when this recall has been carried out rather than any cars having this dot just now?

Thankfully mine has the stainless rivets and sandwich construction on the bottom arms so should be OK

Post by **Rob Bell** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:03 pm

Is it just me, or is the wishbone in figure 2 (and figure 3b) the same as the lower wishbone on all pre-NAC/SIAC era MGFs/TFs?

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mgtfnut · Post by **mgtfnut** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:09 pm

That's spooky.

In 2008 I seam welded two new wishbones before Polybushing and slotting/fitting nuts and bolts to the lower ball joint holes to get the camber right.
Camber checked last week and it's held up fine.

Tipper · Post by **Tipper** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:01 am

Keith Williams wrote:recall notice for MGTF from MG Motor UK. This does NOT apply to Fs or TFs built/sold by MG Rover.

An issue was identified in the suspension set up of a new MGTF. Review suggested it was a one off component specification issue. Another was subsequently found at a dealership. Checking and repairing the car should take 1 - 3 hours. Courtesy car should be provided.
Issued by Keith Harris 16 March 2011.

RC002 v1.02.pdf

That PDF makes a real meal of it!

Assuming that is due to a chinese sourced part rather than UK it's indicative of many so called quality items from China imho. If it's a UK part then they should be sent to China!

Post by **Rob Bell** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:48 pm

I wonder the same thing! The 'good part' appears to be the same as has always been fitted to Rover Group/ MG Rover MGFs and TFs. The inferior one appears to be a cheaper copy, with no prizes awarded for guessing where they were sourced.

I suspect that earlier "New Journey" TFs were using up old stock MG Rover parts, and hence are not part of the recall.

But to put some perspective on this - the rest of the NJ TFs appear very well built (paint issues aside), and the Chinese sourced parts appear, broadly, to be an equal to the UK specc'd items used previously. Therefore I don't think that there is any need just yet to start rebuilding NJ TFs with older MGR parts!

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