ScottR400D

What tyre sizes/rims were you running James? 

25 minutes ago, 7 wonders of the world said:

If the prop is out it's worth getting better quality uj's fitted with nipple and rebalanced. 

My 2006 prop joints were knackered after 7months so that and my current prop were rebuild BT Proptech.. He wasn't very complimentary about the budget joints that were in from the factory.... 

If there’s an issue then it must be down to poor quality parts being used because greased for life UJs should last years end years. Like they do on millions of cars that have them. 

I look at mine every year, there’s no play in the joints and they’re quite free but then again the mileage is quite low. I think the fact that both ends are fixed and the angles are very small helps. 

53 minutes ago, John Vine said:

Well, you could be right, but they certainly reacted to a defect report.  I wonder whether there was any follow-up?

JV

As you say they reacted to it but was there any follow up or contact with CC?

I note that it's now almost 6 months since Laishley said he’d get his team on it and come back. I know they’ve sent stalling messages out but nothing of any substance.

You’d think a safety issue would deserve more urgent attention than that. 

I doubt the DVSA would be too interested in a handful of cars from a tiny manufacturer. 

Time will tell, they might surprise us with a solution and compensation. 😉

Around four years now since the Titan issues were raised and nothing’s been done. A good mate (who I met through the club) has just recently had his sigma car rebuilt after a damaging failure. He’s in it for over £3k with two recoveries, (it was still wrong after being ‘rebuilt’) three rebuilds and a new CW&P.   

Judging by CC’s normal standard of customer support they’re probably still fitting the same items to new cars and crossing their fingers and doing SFA about the older cars in the hope the owners will eventually just go away. 
 

The same as they seem to have done re the Titan. 

Maybe get an update on the new Titan LSD too? 

30 minutes ago, 7 wonders of the world said:

set of used ones here shows they were 10.9 grade

Blue bolts

I don’t think they’ve been used for years. My 2015 car had and the guide showed cap heads.  

Can you raise the car more so you can get a longer bar on? 
Neil’s right about method but as you realise that needs to be one of the first jobs. I used to find in gear with handbrake hard on and a quick tap of a 400mm bar would get them loose. 
Maybe you could try in gear with a bar and a tap if you can raise the car?

I guess something through the UJ to lock it might work but not very good practice. Strap wrench round the prop to hold it?

Any noise is going to be the CWP so a chance that the ‘new’ one might be better. 
Also you may be able to have the noisy one set up to be less noisy and you have a great spare. 

10 hours ago, CtrMint said:

Have they finally sorted the top hose?

 

That’s what I was wondering. 

Been like that for some time now though. Don’t CC correct anything? 

Fitted your top hose yet? How was that? 

They must have a bin full of broken bits by now..........................

.........what are the odds it gets lost in the move?

1 hour ago, Tom_Arundel said:

Anyone see the `new` Dambusters movie where the dog is now `Trigger or Digger` ....OK in fiction but not in history!

I presume you have oil in the box!

That was actually first censored in the late 90s. A few years back the name was removed from the dog’s memorial at the RAF base. 

4 hours ago, John Vine said:

Yes, I fear you're right. 

Your experience is depressing, but prompts a couple of questions:  Who made the leaky ones?  And who fixed the second?

JV

All the leaky ones were supplied new by CC. The repair was carried out by a race radiator company in Brackley. 

2 hours ago, John Vine said:

Not bad, Geoff!  The rad in my 2008 R400D sprung a leak in 2009 (16 months after build, mileage 9K), which CC kindly replaced FOC:  

Since then, no problems at all (current mileage around 53K).  Maybe I'm looked on favourably by the cooling gods.

JV

No, you were just lucky to get a decent radiator! My first one instantly leaked just like that. It went back and was replaced. The second one showed the leak in a day or two. A third one was sent, I kept hold of the second. The third leaked straight away. I had the second fixed and it‘s been fine for the past 8+ years. I still have the third, basically unused but still with a leak, for when the need arises.

Has anyone in here ever seen damage other than a.simple leak? Eg corrosion, build up of solids. Can’t say I ever have. 
 

10 minutes ago, John Vine said:

I'm not sure I follow that.  (Ethylene) glycol is common to practically all antifreeze, IAT and OAT included.

JV

I think they use a propylene glycol base for OAT. Ethylene glycol isn’t compatible. 

2 minutes ago, StevehS3 said:

This is the problem, along with potentially damaging hoses too.

My experience is entirely the opposite. 

I’ve never been a great believer in the rads being damaged because badly mounted. I’ve never seen any real evidence. 
I know several who have done everything to isolate the rads but they still fail. 
When I built my car back in 2015 the first three rads all failed almost straight away. I had one pressure tested and repaired by a race rad firm and it’s been fine since. And of course the hoses were designed to fit my car (they’ve been used on the 420R with the layer rad set up but they weren’t designed for it). 
I’ve  always used the Comma Red coolant. Changed at 5 years old and it all came out looking like new. No sign of any damage to anything. 
 

I’ve had a socket directly wired to battery since 2015. First battery lasted 3 years with an Optimate.  Since then I always remove from car completely for winter and charge for an hour every 6 weeks or so.  Second battery still going strong after 5+ years. 

To be fair I wouldn’t have thought it at all likely they’d sell even 50 of them so neither would I put them in stock. 
 

Get the order, get the deposit and then start building the product. Get the full price, deliver the product then look for something else to sell is the normal MO isn’t it? 
 

I think they must have decided it’s not their problem. They’ve just sent me a Christmas e mail trying to sell me a watch so they’ve obviously sorted all the real issues. 
 

Talk about wood for the trees…..

They’re obviously totally committed……….

…… to putting this off as long as possible. 
 

10 hours ago, Rob Mullan said:

 

You can criticise me for griping about warranties and Ts and Cs, but if you had been quoted £1485 to replace components which can be sourced for £135, you might be feeling a bit hard done by too.

No criticism warranted. You’re right to feel aggrieved. Just because some are happy, apparently, to be abused, no reason you should be. 

……. at all?😉