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Really like the look of the SEAL.
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Soldato
I have a theory that they give them ridiculous names so they stick in your mind, same with the Chinese tyres.
They're dirt cheap on salsac
When you dived in around 13:11 I thought - He's going for it. He's going to adjust the seats
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I think the modern parlance is "Dupe" which makes it ok and totally different to just being a rip off of the original.
Probably with less reliable issues though
Probably true, though touch wood so far my McLaren has been great, only issue has been AC loss and both times due to corroded AC pipes (bad design) and both times warranty denied until I escalated ir directly to McLaren client services who then both times paid for the repairs, AC all good now.
In short I paid £4500 for two years extended warranty and under that warranty car has had:
- 2x new front dampers - £3000
- 2x new front bushes installed - £1000
- 2x AC Repairs - £1600
- Random trim stuck back down - £200
- Random rattle/clunk (loose bolt) - £200
All minor issues, I've done 8000 miles and four track days and all the issues have been resolved when dropping the car of for routine servicing, to be frank I am happy with it but even little niggles can add up value wise making the warranty really worth having, because should a big item fail like gearbox (10-20k) or engine let go (20-40k) the warranty really pays for itself. Though engine failures are very rare and gearbox failures even rarer, no worse than any other supercar brand anyway and at least the McLaren warranty covers a lot more than say Ferrari extended warranty and cost less too.
Porsche extended warranty covers the most and is also one of cheapest so anyone with a Porsche, it is worth every penny, about £800 per year on a 718 GT4 for example. Lamborghini is also good but problem with Lamborghini extended warranty is it does cost around 4-6k per year but generally covers everything, from my experience Ferrari extended warranty is the worse, won't cover dampers for example.
Been in McLaren world it does seem a bit hit and miss, one of the worse warranty offenders seems to be 720S, know a few people with big big miles on cars like 12C and 650S relatively trouble free just service items on the super series like accumulators which can be costly but a specialist like V or Thorney can upgrade those and then make them serviceable to reduce future cost.
Soldato
Far too much of a reply for Nasher. We know the comment was aimed more at the Range Rover anyway.
Door hinges cracking is the biggest WTF that owners seem to normalise on McLarens
Door hinges cracking is the biggest WTF that owners seem to normalise on McLarens
Yeah, though I think it is overhyped, McLaren did both of mine, forgot to mention that but they tend to change FOC even for owners out of warranty, for example McLaren did @kindai for FREE even though he did not buy the car from them and also has no extended warranty.
I requested McLaren gave me one of mine back so I could see what the fuss was about, literally it is small micro fracture on one of bolt holes, the hinge is such a heavy duty item even if it was full of these cracks I cannot see at any point where it would fail to the point of the door not opening or falling off, so I think as most internet scares it has been blown out of proportion but thumbs up that McLaren are changing them, the new updated part is a little heavier (grams) as has no holes in it, but there has been reports even these can crack, I'd also not be surprised if cracking is also due to potential over tightening also. No owner has had a door operate bad or fall off, even with cracked hinges.