I am sorry that is totally wrong. Yes they may be cheap engines but they are not impossible to fix and they don’t break down every week. I have ordered many spares such as head gaskets, recoils, Magnetos, air vain etc some may have taken a while but that’s because mountfield were still working out what were the problem parts. The smaller engines are copies of the briggs engine anyhow and the larger one is a copy of the Honda engine previously fitted to mountfields. And all mountfield agents have diagrams for the engines if they say they don’t they are not an official dealer, I know this because up until recently I used to work in a shop that was a mountfield agent.
Andy, May 2010