Which undertray.

[vindaloo]

Originally Posted by Vanbursta

OK I give up, you got me, who are the original manufacturers and how do I contact them?

Here you go.
http://www.hampson-composites.co.uk/pages/contact.htm

[muggerbee]

Originally Posted by Kennyeth

Do you have any linky`s Mick? please.
Ken.

Tried to get a couple of pics to upload, but can't seem to get them to show up from Drive as it looks a lot better in the flesh

Here is it on Ebay, don't worry if you miss it they relist another one each time, I collected mine as they are only in Bolton. Ohh and i nearly forgot, it has the full length heat shield fitted..

Mick

[stevenkeyte]

Originally Posted by vindaloo

Here you go.
http://www.hampson-composites.co.uk/pages/contact.htm

Beat me to it Jim.
I bought one for the CDTi I'm currently repairing,

Steve

[vindaloo]

Originally Posted by stevenkeyte

Beat me to it Jim.

I bought one for the CDTi I'm currently repairing,



Steve

Yes they seem to sell quite a few, I bought mine from them about 3 years ago & I guess they must supply X-Part dealers who then almost double the price.

[DMGRS]

I'm going to be in touch, and see if I can wangle some discount on a bulk order.
Can't hurt to ask!

[vindaloo]

Originally Posted by DMGRS

I'm going to be in touch, and see if I can wangle some discount on a bulk order.
Can't hurt to ask!

I'm sure, as they are the manufacturer, you can can get some sort of deal.

[stevenkeyte]

Originally Posted by vindaloo

I'm sure, as they are the manufacturer, you can can get some sort of deal.

I don't know whether they are actually still manufacturing them Jim, I'll ask my contact at Hampsons tomorrow. I seem to think that the ones they're selling on Ebay are the last ones they manufactured for MGR and they were left with the stock after the collapse of the MGR, however, they might still have the tooling left to produce the undertrays, but as to whether they can still source the heat shielding and acoustic foam for fixing to the inside of the tray is another story - I would presume this came from another MGR sub-contractor for final assembly at Hampsons
Steve

[Dominic22]

I just emailed also about the V8 one but if you are speaking to them can you ask.

[stevenkeyte]

Right, I had a long chat with Alan at Hampson Composites this afternoon, about undertrays and this is what came out of the conversation.
Hampsons were the original manufacturers to MGR and all the trays from the pre-production trial ones to the last one are identical, the only thing which is different is the addition of the various heat shields and acoustic foam (on the CDTi).
They currently have about 80 in stock (built to suit petrol engine variants) and they do not plan to manufacture any more, but, as they own the tooling they would consider a further production run, but to make the trays economical they'd have to produce 200 - 300 units.
The V8 variant of the tray was a bit of a special, these were built to order from the factory and are made up of two trays, one cut in half and the middle of the other one cut out and the three pieces riveted together to make one, larger panel, so it would be feasible to make a V8 undertray from two standard units.
Alan was also telling me of the fun with the pre-production cars fitting the undertrays, Hampsons produced the initial batch and sent them to the factory for fitting to the pre-production cars, the factory then phoned telling them that the front of the trays didn't fit the bumper, to cut a long story short, the trays were to the correct dimensions, the bumpers had been manufactured incorrectly and the tooling for the bumpers had to be altered!

Steve

[Vanbursta]

It's good to know you have been in touch with them, but what was the outcome? is there a special price if a lot of us get together and make a large order, if they have 80 I guess that as a group we would be buying nearly all of them. Failing that do we just ring and pay for one?