Powerflexes, 3rd attempt failed already, Another design now

[titch]

I was under the car the other week fitting the lower strut brace, and while looking around as you do i noticed my powerflex lower engine mount didn't look right, on closer inspection it had started to split.

I know with the yellow ones they did a washer mod to make it stronger, when i received my lower mount it had no washers with it ( i got it at the end of August )
I phoned powerflex and they said that there was no need with the diesel one!
So went ahead and fitted it.
While looking on here at Dum-Dum's project thread last week he had just fitted one, and it had large washers with it and it had been slightly redesigned.
Had a look on powerflex's website and it was now shown with washers so i emailed powerflex and after a few emails it turns out they redesigned it in September, so sent them some pictures of mine, and they sent me a new one out for free, which i fitted this morning.
Seems a much better design will wait and see how long this one lasts!
As usual a good customer service from powerflex, the new one was here in a few days, but still baffles me why they don't do more and better testing before they sell their products.


Picture of the new one fitted....




One side of the old bush where the bracket had dug in and damaged it!




And the other side of the old bush, you can see it has split right through the middle.