12C Updates released

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The "P13" Updates were released yesterday. Looking forward to seeing what they've changed. Anyone had it done yet?

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(P)latform 13 is the latest round of 650'esq up-grades. Mine's in tomorrow, I'll keep you posted.

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GRBF430F1 said:

Forgive my ignorance but what is McLaren doing with all these upgrades to the MP4 12C ?

I think we all know the first cars were flawed and hence the 2013 upgrade. Then there was IRIS II upgrade and now P13 upgrade

Surely this isn't going to help 650S sales ?

I do love this, have you ever driven one of the first cars? The only thing that was "Flawed" was the "Iris" system. Mclaren chose to
engineer it themselves, and sadly it wasn't up to the job. The early cars were overly benign (safe) in their handling, some would call that flawed
I suppose some would call early 911's flawed, generally as they went through a hedge backwards. I know which of the two I'd prefer...

The only real "re-call" up-grade the car has had, was it's power hike from 592 to 616 bhp this made a noticeable difference. Interestingly the original
"flawed" car was only 1.1 seconds slower than the Atom 500 around the Dunsfold track, pretty impressive when you think about it! (I did hear
rumours the Atom was running on cut slicks as well...)

So to re-cap, we're calling a supercar "flawed" because it doesn't want to let you kill yourself whilst "going for it"

Maybe the result of the improved 650S up-grades are adequately displayed in recent events?

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It's so flawed, I'm waiting for them to take it away and up-grade it some more

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Mine's chassis 171. The only real problem I've had, aside from the original "Iris" are fogging rear lights and some minor paintwork damage caused by the rear quarter light trim. Swipe doors are sometimes finicky but they are
cool in equal measure as well. Mclaren Birmingham have always collected and returned the car to sort the problems. To put it into perspective, the R8 V10 Spyder I owned previously, had a lot more issues...

Edited by mrloudly on Tuesday 24th June 17:58

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http://www.mclarenebrochure.com/2014/12CTechUpdate...

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hazy said:

LukeyLikey said:

I have a later 12C and I'm delighted with it. Very very fast, capable and entertaining. Not what I would call 'flawed'.

The only people who diss these cars are those that have never driven one, epic epic cars, I cant see anything being quicker from A to B in real world conditions.

I tried Launch on mine last week with traction off. Fooooooookin hell!

Brilliant when you learn to floor it quickly not slowly bringing on clutch overheat warning ;-) Mad how it finds the grip!

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Ryebrook Birmingham have been excellent with me on service.

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Kersten Rice from the Birmingham service centre does a top job for me, no complaints!