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Author:  henry the mini [ Mon May 07, 2007 7:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Flares question
Hi. I just foun those. http://www.minisport.com.au/prod432.htm
They are what i am after but they say it need a backing plate fitted?

Any idea what is that?

Edit: Also can i do better then that quality and price wise?

Edit 2 Sorry: Will they cover 12x5 superlite?
Author:  64cooper [ Mon May 07, 2007 8:09 pm ]
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The backing plate they talk about for the Clubman S/LS/GT is the extension on the wheel arches. The flares are held on by the chrome side strip that fits over the lip along each side of the car and around the wheel arches.
Author:  henry the mini [ Mon May 07, 2007 8:12 pm ]
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64cooper wrote:
The backing plate they talk about for the Clubman S/LS/GT is the extension on the wheel arches. The flares are held on by the chrome side strip that fits over the lip along each side of the car and around the wheel arches.

I dont follow you :shock:
Author:  LS1380 [ Mon May 07, 2007 8:30 pm ]
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64cooper wrote:
The backing plate they talk about for the Clubman S/LS/GT is the extension on the wheel arches. The flares are held on by the chrome side strip that fits over the lip along each side of the car and around the wheel arches.

The plastic flares have to be secured to something...That is the metal arches that you can't see under the plastic flares.
Author:  64cooper [ Mon May 07, 2007 8:32 pm ]
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In the pic below, items 33 and 34 are what they are talking about,

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and it is item 35 that holds the flare onto the lip of the wheel arches.

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Hope this helps you understand a bit better. The lip over the arches needs to be wider than what you see in the above pic. It has to be the width and same moulding as the flare.

cheers
Author:  LS1380 [ Mon May 07, 2007 8:35 pm ]
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Here's a pic from underneath,when new flares were fitted this year.
The plastic flare is pop riveted to the metal arch extension.
Hope this helps.
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Author:  henry the mini [ Mon May 07, 2007 9:42 pm ]
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Thanks guys but i think i am more confused then ever :shock:

Can anyone here fit those? :shock:
Author:  Hanra [ Mon May 07, 2007 9:52 pm ]
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Panelbeaterdotcomdotayeyou can do it.
Author:  henry the mini [ Mon May 07, 2007 9:56 pm ]
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Hanra wrote:
Panelbeaterdotcomdotayeyou can do it.


??? :shock: :(
Author:  Hanra [ Mon May 07, 2007 9:58 pm ]
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On my car its just a thin piece of flat sheet metal that has been shaped to the wheel arch and is only as wide as the flare, its been spot welded to the original lip on the Mini wheels arch. The flare then sits on tip of this section, and is then fixed to the guard and this sheetmetal piece.

Just go and see a panel beater or have a go ur self.
Author:  xplosion77 [ Mon May 07, 2007 10:02 pm ]
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so if you where going to fit these flares do you have to make the arches bigger as well, by making the arches bigger could you youse the bottom as the extention to poprivit on, also wat size tyre can u get under them because i have a set of 13 to go on
Author:  henry the mini [ Mon May 07, 2007 10:09 pm ]
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:shock: I had no idae fitting flares woul be that complicated. So to make a long story short i need to make a shelf that's got the same shape as the flares so they can sit on it? I was under the impression that you used rivet to attach the flares to the side of the car not the lip thingo...

Why everithing is so complicated :shock:
Author:  Harley [ Mon May 07, 2007 10:29 pm ]
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Hanra wrote:
Panelbeaterdotcomdotayeyou can do it.


Thatjokesgettingoldalreadydotcomdotayeyou

:D
Author:  Hanra [ Mon May 07, 2007 10:30 pm ]
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henry the mini wrote:
??? :shock: :(


I know... but it still confuses some...
Author:  henry the mini [ Mon May 07, 2007 10:32 pm ]
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Hanra wrote:
Panelbeaterdotcomdotayeyou can do it.


Got it :oops: Not easy to get joke like that in your second language :shock:
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