@Brembo
yea as im sat here at work doing nothing surfing I thought id reply.
I have been on quite a journey with the car and mountune , we were buying the car brand new , and as I have modified cars my whole driving life I decided I wanted to do this one from the off, I wanted to get it done and enjoy it for the length of time we have it (forever originally)
so after a brief investigation mountune were the brand I kept seeing and knowing they were more expensive than anyone else and the products etc I thought fuck it il go with them. I have learnt so many times over in the past what you get is what you pay for and I hate buying stuff twice, on that note we bought all the upgrades to m400 before we even got the car I should have known back then it wasn’t going to be plain sailing as I couldn’t buy the kit as a whole from mountune as it was out of stock, but I could buy it in bits (which I did) if the wrong colour hose is in a kit its classed as out of stock they might have a black or grey hose but this kit is classed as out of stock crazy anyway
so we had the failed spark plug at around the 2500 mile mark ford tech said faulty plug ford warrenty said m400 map at this point the car was with ford for 1 week.
we had the initial period of a month where there was no response from mountune at all regarding what they were doing with the issue
then the indigo gt story where I was having the pte turbo fitted
my first cost I had to pay indigo gt to put the car back together for mountune so they could collect it and take it away £500
at this point the car was off the road for 4 weeks at indigo gt
it was at this time I was told the mountune big turbo kit is not coming to the uk , different market etc will not happen.so I made a choice moutnue internals and warranty or big turbo build I had to choose the internal as I wouldn’t normally be able to afford them.
when mountune contacted me yes they did offer to collect the car they did and they had it stripped down and inspected within two days within that week it was rebuilt using their forged internals and as a gesture of their good will enabling them to see why the car had failed etc they did a reduced cost for the kit
£4900 which was absolutely amazing this included
rods
pistons
baffled sump
balance shaft delete
triple pass radiator
boost hoses
and the M400X map the first car in the uk to have it
they also fitted my moutnune brake hoses and my rear mountune carbon spoiler
so I was happy well as happy as you can be for spending 5k on a car you’ve only had a few months.
the car was at mountune for 4 weeks
I had to take a day off work unpaid to collect the car £200 plus travel expenses that cost me.
my partner drove the car daily and I every other weekend and all was good until 20th January I found my self on the side of the road with a rod through the front of the block not just any rod my rod a forged rod .
so the car gets picked up by the AA ford assist and taken to mountune where they after a few days inspected it had it stripped down and eventually gave me a list of the damage.
SABRE
666.6 bhp 99 oct & wmi
558 lbft
OEMeth installs
Aquamist
sabre tuning
Spec-R
J9-performance
funk motorsport
Hel
Owen developments
WP Pro brakes
HELIX Automotive
KW suspensions
Barney Build
Grant Motorsport
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