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McLaren Suspension Damper Refurbishment

by John Thorne | 3rd July 2025 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

It never made sense to us that any failure of a McLaren suspension unit required a complete replacement rather than repair so several years ago we developed a replacement spring for all the McLaren models which was a direct OEM replacement and since then we have sold...

McLaren Owners Club UK Customer Survey

by John Thorne | 4th November 2024 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

Delighted to be able to share the news that we have had an overwhelmingly positive response to our services from the McLaren Owners Club UK. Every year the UK Club, which is well known to McLaren themselves, undertakes a survey of their members all for the level of...

McLaren Car Canopies

by John Thorne | 24th May 2024 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

People always ask (usually when they drive down and see we have more McLarens here than the UK dealers combined!) what it is we do that gives us our success and my reply is very simple - every car that comes down our driveway we treat as if it is our own car. There...

McLaren Exhaust Upgrades

by John Thorne | 24th May 2024 | Custom Exhausts News, Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

TMS CUSTOM MCLAREN EXHUASTSWe have been designing and building sports exhausts for over 20 years, initially working with a variety of suppliers and then bringing the whole process from design to construction in house where we hand made all our exhausts here at...

McLaren Service Schedule

by John Thorne | 20th November 2023 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

A lot of our work now is for owners Worldwide via our International dealers and its come to our attention that the is a huge variance on service costs from region to region and even dealer to dealer. Some of this is explained by differences in labour rates, currency...

My retirement from Racing

by John Thorne | 15th November 2023 | BMW Racing, CSL Cup, Latest News, Off Road Racing, Other Series, Racing News | 0 Comments

Yep, I’m afraid after 17 years of racing the time has come for me to retire from competitive motorsport. Now this doesn’t mean Thorney Motorsport will no longer be motorsport, far from it, motorsport is in our DNA and is part and parcel of everything we develop and...

Britcar Trophy End of Season Report

by John Thorne | 16th October 2023 | BMW News, Latest News | 0 Comments

Hmmm. Not sure we can really call this a successful season really. We had some ups with some good results early on, then some downs with multiple gearbox issues outside of our control and then ended on an up with a couple of 4th places and Callum winning driver of the...

Our McLaren Paint shop Operation

by John Thorne | 7th June 2023 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

We've been preparing and repairing McLaren bodywork for near 10 years however its not something we really marketed as for the most part paint defects were fully covered by McLaren for 10 years so if and when we saw issues we simply referred owners to their local...

New Car Park

by John Thorne | 23rd March 2023 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

They say a good business is always investing back into its customers so we hope our customers will recognise the investment we have made into our new car park and yard because we had to sell our McLaren 720s Spider to pay for it all! To be honest there is also some...

Africa Trust

by John Thorne | 22nd March 2023 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

A little while ago we took two cars in for sale from an owner who sadly died in a car crash. Paul was a lovely chap, a real petrol head and we had got to know him pretty well as we do with a lot of our customers so his death was quite a shock. In the process of...

McLaren Suspension Damper Refurbishment

McLaren Owners Club UK Customer Survey

McLaren Car Canopies

McLaren Exhaust Upgrades

McLaren Service Schedule

My retirement from Racing

Britcar Trophy End of Season Report

Our McLaren Paint shop Operation

New Car Park

Africa Trust

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