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Originally Posted by mss
Just to add to Brian's post, I think you are reaching the incorrect conclusion based on the information in your possession.
Personally, for our cars there is only one kit that I would trust - that is Luk. I would not trust any of the others. The others are all suppliers of parts that are either manufactured by someone else or do not have the breadth and depth of experience (heritage) in designing/testing clutch parts.
Luk will have a failure rate, like all engineering products do, but this will be very low compared with all the generic items of unkown origin.
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You accuse me of not knowing my facts when I do. Not doing my homework when I did. Getting the facts from the very people you said I should have done before I originally posted and was going through the problems. If Big Russ and Andy Willie tell me that LUK products fail as often as the generic products you avoid, as mine did, a company through personal experiences of working with on manufacturing and design, well I think I will take their advice from their extensive knowledge than your limited knowledge.
I don't know your background but I know mine and it includes extensive work with engineering groups who manufacturer parts for the motor industry.. Both the original companies, original suppliers and generic suppliers. These generic suppliers are often the original suppliers, sometimes its the other way round. Often parts like seals came from one supplier so a fault in their runs effect all. In some case and more often than you think one place manufactured on contract and supplied the generic parts and the original suppliers parts. Often my company. I've seen Saab, Rover and Ford parts, all made in the same plant and ending up with the end prices ranging from for example 40 GDP to 109 GDP dependent on the parts suppliers box its in. As the number of cars falls and so the part production rates fall prices go up. People will not pay so to keep supplying the production goes out to tender to the cheapest supplier. Then you get the price you want to pay but quality falls. Simple really, and that's what' I believe is happening here and with other components. I own classic cars and this is a big problem here. Parts are cheap because people do not want to pay the real cost of quality and then complain when they need to be replaced regularly. This is what's starting to happen with MGR parts. You so far like many others have been fortunate with the quality, a large number of us haven't, and it's a significant number..
You may have an opinion based on your experience that LUK can be relied upon, an opinion I had also.. Facts and evidence provided to me changed my mind it's pot luck where you get these clutch parts from, the iffy quality seems to be the same from all of them where MGR clutches are concerned.my conclusions based on the facts I posses are correct.