Calling all Australian XPower owners, im looking at organising a group of us to approach MG. Dealers care not.

powerfulx said:

Dealers are just as pissed off , stuck in the middle, cant slam the brand to customers or media. However storm is brewing. Id be interested to see if no fix, what the remedy will be. Compensation, option to return, swap for long range etc MG engineers gave about 2 seconds of thought to the dampener. More a calm the storm move, either they know its a front motor swap/drive train issue or dont care.

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Probably the latter. Bury head in sand, syndrome, hoping it goes away. And that goes for the vibration and the customer. They've got ya money after all. Perhaps a tad cynical, but after reading all the posts about it, I'm not so sure.

I agree .... there seems to be a great reluctance to admit/accept issues like this by some car manufacturers....country by country too.

Had a response from my dealer: he tells me to wait a bit, as a announcement is on its way. Not good enough; they have known about this problem since before August 2023.

I worked in an Australian Ford dealership in the mid '70s as a mechanic back when the extended body Landau was still being sold new. They were basically 2 x two door falcon hardtop bodies cut and shut to make the longer body. All sorts of theories about body misalignment, tail shaft too long and so on......
The fix back then was to put worm drive hose clamps apposing each other at different positions on the tail shaft ..... it didn't necessarily fix the problem, just moved the vibration either up or down the tail shaft rotational speed ... trial and error until it was above the 80mph (130km/h) range and anyone who complained then got the "that is an unsafe speed" treatment.

The actual fix was discovered many moons later, simply changed the tail shaft angle, problem vanished.

The reason for the long story, try looking at the drive shaft angles side to side, is the motor too high/low or not the same side to side ... is the motor too far forward or back to give a straight tail shaft rotation, or even twisted side to side .....

T1 Terry

T1 Terry said:

The reason for the long story, try looking at the drive shaft angles side to side, is the motor too high/low or not the same side to side ... is the motor too far forward or back to give a straight tail shaft rotation, or even twisted side to side .....

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This has been discussed in one of the other threads, with a picture posted showing the front drive shaft angles. So this could be considered as a possible issue.

powerfulx said:

Dealer in the house ?

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haha dam you saw though my plan trying to change peoples minds one post at a time..

JonnyG said:

I take it you're pretty new here but as you're from Austalia I'm surprised you are not aware of the issue :-

Just Google "mg australia delay xpower" and read the reason why they delayed them.

It occurs at a steady cruise at 67-73mph on motorways (so 108 - 117 Kph)

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yeah very new im reading up about it all now. thanks for the info.
I came from a 4wd with mud tyres so maybe im used to a bit of wheel vibrations and thats why i havent notice it.. Ill go for a drive on the weekend and makes sure i slow down to 110-120 to see if i feel it..