If you think EC are bad .... Wait until you have to deal with the incompetent idiots at Turbomecca........ No matter what machine you fly you will only feel real pain when you have no option but to deal with TM......
I am 14 months on from having some metal in the engine, I opted for a service exchange, and that's where the fun really did start .... After it failing more than three times over ten months, they decided to replace it but not before I had to stand the costs to remove and refit three times, the front oil seal went three hours after fitting, FCU changed, manifolds, valves ... Everything ...
And it was suppose to be a tested engine ....
Bottom line was the same TESTED engine over the past four years had been in three different aircraft removed from ALL of them for the same fault !!!
That tells you everything you need to know about their quality control systems ....
New engine pissed fuel out of injectors on first ground runs, and now less than two hours of flight is pissing oil out .....
I will never buy another machine with that ****ty engine in it ...... Although have to say when it works it works ok .... Just hope you never break it or need their support ......
Nelly