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Author:  Babes [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:31 pm ]
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So the traveller (actually discovered it is a countryman but thats another story) is back from the paint shop and the rebuild begins. I have bought a huge amount of new parts to go back on to the car and nothing seems to fit!

Putting the sliding window doors back together, new chrome runners dont fit and need trimming down, then the felt track the window sits in doesnt fit needs trimming down. Got all that done and glass back in. Bought new window catch kits, chrome dome wont go through the gasket. Found the old gaskets still seem good so clean them and fit them.

Woo hoo one door done, window wont open the pin doesnt lift high enough to clear the hole it locks in :evil:

New door handles all round, key only locks the back door doesn fit the drivers door!

New wiring loom, doesnt include wiring to go to the headlights and on and on and on it goes. Have closed the door to the shed, not having fun anymore so will leave it for another day.

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Author:  mickmini [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:37 pm ]
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I feel your pain
Author:  guna mk1 [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:25 pm ]
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And once you get it all finished the new rubber will all start to perish and crack in 12 months.
Author:  Babes [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:38 pm ]
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guna mk1 wrote:
And once you get it all finished the new rubber will all start to perish and crack in 12 months.


Something to look forward to then :shock:
Author:  adamstuart [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:45 pm ]
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Where did you get your new loom from?

I got mine from Vinwire and the headlight wiring came seperate.

Perhaps they accidentally left it out - Or who ever did yours forget to add the headlight loom
Author:  willy [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:54 pm ]
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Yep, production costs and material processing means 'she ain't what she used to be!'
Author:  CARTER_GT [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:57 pm ]
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I brought new engine mounts recently and they broke within 2 months... Found 40 year old ones off a wreck and they work much better
Author:  AEG163job [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:01 pm ]
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Surprising how much crap rubber is around these days.

Managed to find a couple of window seals for the Cooper and on the back of 'em spotted:

HYA 2290 SARM

Nearly 40 yrs old and still poifect!

Good ol' South Australian Rubber Mills of Main South Road Edwardstown (defunct circa. 1975?). They really made some quality stuff.
Author:  drmini in aust [ Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:09 pm ]
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Most rubber comes out of China now. It is crap, natural rubber.
A while back I caught a rubber supplier here in Sydney passing off this cheapo rubber as neoprene (which I used to buy for welding curtains).
Charging neoprene prices too.
Easy to tell, neoprene doesn't catch fire with a match (or something hotter, like arc welding).
But this stuff did... :twisted:

re Mini rubbers, I fitted new ones under the Matic's door handle escutcheons. I dunno why I bothered. 12 months later (garaged mostly) they had shrunk.
Next time the handles are off, S/H ones are going in there.
Author:  Babes [ Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:46 pm ]
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A bit of an update on more rubbish parts. New flasher unit, brake switch and voltage regulator both not working correctly. Spent ages trying to find why things wern't working.

You think all new parts here so cant be that. Ive a mind to pack all the parts up I have ordered and send them back that didn't work, voltage reg regulated voltage anywhere between 3 and 14 volts!. Still waiting for a refund for a brand new speedo that dint bloody work properly either, needle swung wildly all over the place and wouldn't sit back to 0.

Went out the back to the 67 countryman that had been sitting in a paddock for 20+ years and got bits off that, work a treat!
Author:  9YaTaH [ Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:13 pm ]
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Babes wrote:
A bit of an update on more rubbish parts. New flasher unit, brake switch and voltage regulator both not working correctly. Spent ages trying to find why things wern't working.

You think all new parts here so cant be that. Ive a mind to pack all the parts up I have ordered and send them back that didn't work, voltage reg regulated voltage anywhere between 3 and 14 volts!. Still waiting for a refund for a brand new speedo that dint bloody work properly either, needle swung wildly all over the place and wouldn't sit back to 0.

Went out the back to the 67 countryman that had been sitting in a paddock for 20+ years and got bits off that, work a treat!


Moral of the story seems to be (for parts that make a Mini go) change one at a time...then wait :roll:
Author:  MiniBill [ Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:00 pm ]
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Thats pretty bad you would think new replacemant parts would work , their quality control must be terrible.

By the way what place did you buy these parts off ? as i would like to avoid them.

And lastly keep your chin up your mini will be worth the effort.
Author:  Maxi23 [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:57 am ]
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Had similar issue with the rubbers I got for the headlights and parker lights. Had to sit them next to the old ones to make sure I did order the right ones. A bit of 'trimming' and all was good.
Author:  kirby [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:14 pm ]
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I too feel you pain.
Author:  9YaTaH [ Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:16 pm ]
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Even the London Cabs have been effected!! Where will it all end!!!! :shock: :roll:

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