Utter rubbish - I got two new badges the other day off the shelf from local MG Dealer. Another guy was buying a 25 headlamp - and again was available off the shelf. Bumpers are no longer a problem according to dealer

 

I have heard this to. My friends ZT-T now has second hand parts from scrap yard as he cant get bumbers headlight and body parts.

 

The old fella involved had paid £6000 for it six months ago. Insurance company were offering him £2000 as settlement. :yikes:

And you don't think they'd try the same thing on with a more valuable supposedly 'prestige' car?

Insurance companies always do this - start with the basic trade value. If the punter is stupid enough to accept they're laughing as they'll probably flog the write-off into the trade for £2k and get their money back. Sensible punters argue and refuse to accept and soon the insurers will cough up a sensible value or even repair the car.

 

Like I said, don't shoot the messenger. It was an interesting conversation that I thought I'd pass on.

 

My MG ZS 120 is into its 6th week of the road waiting for a front wing nobody has one not even second hand .
And dont say Xpart Rimmer Brothers Rover breakers they all say the same maybe next week.

 

OK, Ian Robertson IIRC has quoted that Essex police have some Volvos off the road. Why? "They can't get the parts"!! And that's for a car that's made by one of the worlds largest car makers and is a current model!

Just because the (dis)Honest John's in media have made a big thing of MGRs parts problems, don't get the idea that other makes don't have supply problems 'cos they do!

 

Isn't their an Xpart help line to deal wit such short falls?
I'm shure I read of something like this

Shroon

 

Yes there is its known as the “Close Call” service, if the insurance assessor phones them with the parts required they will send a quote and back to the assessor within 2 working hours. Xpart reckone that they have saved 80% of the cars that would have been written off had they not been put through this service.

 

I thought parts are being made still?

 

FAO e668 ecp

Do you know what a fantastist is?

 

Do you know what a fantasist is?

If you are going to insist on insulting other members on this forum Andy, can you at least spell the offending words right...

 

Badges? I bought a ZS rear MG badge off the shelf about 2 weeks ago no problems...

 

all i can recommend is ebay! you can find pretty much any part you're after on there...

 

I think it's no longer a case of "spares aren't available" they're just, not quite so easily obtainable unless you know where to look. Sadly I think too many people haven't realised that getting parts isn't really a problem as long as your looking in the right place.

Talking to the guy who does all our cars, he says that body parts for early 90's rovers seem to be drying up somewhat (same as any manufacturer), but anything mid 90's onwards is OK. Although he has commented that bits for TF's (body panels mostly) seem to be more awkward than the rest of the late MGR range. He has no problems getting run of the mill stuff, exhausts, alternators, headlights etc and all the usual mechanical bits that bust over time or commonly break.

 

Although not based on extensive examples, I get the impression that if a firm can't get parts, panels etc from the suppliers they've used for yonks, then they believe they are unobtainable. Several suppliers who have helped me in the past have shrugged their shoulders when asked for some items. I try somewhere else and hey ho, they can supply sometimes off the shelf.

Human nature is suppose.

OK, Ian Robertson IIRC has quoted that Essex police have some Volvos off the road. Why? "They can't get the parts"!! And that's for a car that's made by one of the worlds largest car makers and is a current model!

Just because the (dis) Honest John's in media have made a big thing of MGRs parts problems, don't get the idea that other makes don't have supply problems 'cos they do!

Some parts are difficult to obtain irrespective of marques involved. Been that way for all the years I've been driving - which started in 1959.

My ex-MG-R dealership now has the Fiat and Nissan. Considering the huge range of models both marques have made over the past few years or so, it would be impossible to be able to supply anything quickly.

In the words of that rather annoying TV advertisement ...

"It doesn't work like that". However, it did once upon a time....

As I went into my now X-part spares counter a short while ago, a rather irate loud mouthed punter told me not to waste my time in their as they're a load of ... sounds like bankers. Apparently, he had been unable to get a part for his Nissan.

No doubt another one of the many who have been brainwashed to believe that only Rovers and MGs ever have such problems. I believe there's an army of such 'ignorants' out there. Who can we blame for that ignorance.... I have no idea.
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Update on front wing Xpart say it should arrive tomorrow! i will keep you posted.

 

My mates brand new Golf got its rear window smashed in a works accident...took 6 weeks to get a new one!
Jim

 

Got my Z back tonight took seven weeks to get a front wing.
On the plus side the local firm that owned the van that caused the damage paid for it and lent me a hire car with out it going through there insurance.
Could have being scrapped otherwise.