I just had my car into the dealer for the first service and to check the CEL that showed up last weekend. When I gave them the car I ask them to check the left side engine/trans mount, that there had been a couple of cars that had had problems with them. The service writer actually went online and checked as many blogs, web sites and forums as he could find and after confirming there was a known issue called the factory and asked what he should do about it.
Their response was that there had been only 2 reported engine mount failures as of 1/15/07 in both cases they had determined that the failure had been due to the bolt, that runs through the rubber mount on the chassis and threads into the aluminum mount on the transaxle, had either worked loose or was left loose at the time of assembly. After it had backed out until there were only a few threads left engaged it finally stripped those few threads and the engine/trans assembly fell. They have recomended that all MS3's that come into dealerships have this mount checked and tightened if needed. The two cars that had problems were so far apart in build date that they don't believe it was an ongoing problem just a random mistake.
This is not a TSB or a recall yet and they assured me that it was not a design problem just an assembly error.
BTW my car was built 8/06 and my mount was tight (I had already checked it 3 weeks ago, but I did not tell them that) I wanted them to check it and have it on a work order just in case.
Their response was that there had been only 2 reported engine mount failures as of 1/15/07 in both cases they had determined that the failure had been due to the bolt, that runs through the rubber mount on the chassis and threads into the aluminum mount on the transaxle, had either worked loose or was left loose at the time of assembly. After it had backed out until there were only a few threads left engaged it finally stripped those few threads and the engine/trans assembly fell. They have recomended that all MS3's that come into dealerships have this mount checked and tightened if needed. The two cars that had problems were so far apart in build date that they don't believe it was an ongoing problem just a random mistake.
This is not a TSB or a recall yet and they assured me that it was not a design problem just an assembly error.
BTW my car was built 8/06 and my mount was tight (I had already checked it 3 weeks ago, but I did not tell them that) I wanted them to check it and have it on a work order just in case.