Suspension: 850: Just got the suspension welded!!

[Matthews 855 T5]

Dear All

The suspension mounts in the rear had broken free from the bodywork/chassis. The metal appears to have sheared, my garage welded it and reattached the susupension mount.

You might want to drop the rear seats and shine a torch under the boot floor to look for hairline stress cracks. My car was built in 1994 so is 17 yrs old, I wonder if this is a age related issue or just one off? I did over 5000 miles in August through Europe and encountered some poor roads in Romania perhaps these were the cause of the cracks.

I remember a recall on the bodywork of early 850 estates relating to stress on the body work near the rear wheel arch, does anyone have the details of this?

Thanks
Matt
1994 855 T5 auto 156,000 miles

[Andy Northface]

Thanks for that,deffo something to watch for!