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 Post subject: Ill fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:43 pm 
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Hi all
Below is a photo of my daughters car and the bonnet does not line up with the closing panel.
The bonnet lines up OK with both front guards but does not match up to the grille panel.
The grille seems to line up OK with the panel.

What is out of shape !
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 Post subject: Re: I'll fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:40 pm 
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Everything?

Joking aside, most mini bonnets don't fit well but not quite as bad as your example.
Theres not much you can do as if you moved (bend) the locking panel down, the edges would be too low at guard.
You could try another bonnet(s) if you could maybe borrow one/some. They do vary depending on where they come from.
If you're really wanting to repair yours it would require panel work. I could elaborate if thats your idea.


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 Post subject: Re: I'll fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:54 pm 
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I was wondering if there were different shaped bonnets for the later cars with "English" grille and that this is what might have been fitted to this.

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 Post subject: Re: I'll fitting bonnet
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Both the bonnet and the support panel are pushed in. Looks like that car has had a bit of a tap in the front at some stage. If the middle Of Bonnet and support panel are pulled out it will even out the Gap. But will need prepping and painting again.

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 Post subject: Re: I'll fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:06 pm 
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Looks like the headlights are a bit pushed in too. Problem with 40 year old cars, you never know their history.

Nice photo bucket btw, bit of a beast you're building there.


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 Post subject: Re: I'll fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:43 pm 
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Looks like the old girl has hit something reslly hard and been poorly repaired.

As said above the headlights grill support panel and bonnet are all out of whack. The headlight could be left but if you want too fix the gap the grill panel and bonnet will need to be pulled forward..

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 Post subject: Re: I'll fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:36 am 
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Maybe take a few measurements and compare with a straight one. You'll at least know how bad it is. Another thing you could check is the floor, around where sub frame bolts are. If it's been hit hard the sub frame sometimes transmits the force to the floor, pushing it up/back. There's no 'crumple, zones' in a Mini. =0)


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 Post subject: Re: Ill fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 2:55 pm 
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for a budget tidy up... try re-fitting the chrome moustache, with a bit of pushing and pulling I think it would hide a lot of the gap and the chrome will take your eye away from it and they just look better with the moustache.
I think the only other fix is to pull the front of the car back out and beat it back into shape.


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 Post subject: Re: I'll fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:11 pm 
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peterb wrote:
Maybe take a few measurements and compare with a straight one. You'll at least know how bad it is. Another thing you could check is the floor, around where sub frame bolts are. If it's been hit hard the sub frame sometimes transmits the force to the floor, pushing it up/back. There's no 'crumple, zones' in a Mini. =0)

I made a template of my bonnet which fits reasonably well.
We tried it against my daughters mini (the red one above) and it fits the body reasonably well.
Based on this, it must be the bonnet that's out of shape.
Does a Rover bonnet have a different bottom edge profile where it meets the grille ?

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 Post subject: Re: I'll fitting bonnet
PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:28 pm 
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that car has definitely had a hit in the nose...

Phil 850 wrote:
Does a Rover bonnet have a different bottom edge profile where it meets the grille ?


no, it's the same, just has a lip for the top part of the grille surround

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