does minimania go UK --> US --> AUS?

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Don't think so. The only big one the US currently has is the Canada/Mexico one. No Canadian i know has a good thing to say about that one.



The price is probably alright, but why oh why did you get copper? Steel is always the best option for safety. CAMS mandates it for any car that goes on the track....You can just buy yourself a flaring tool (double flaring) and some bundy tubing from Blackwoods, use the old pipes as the template to bend the new, slide the nut from the old pipe on, flare the end and voila!

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I would think that Minimania (US) sources all parts from the UK at some point?

So at some stage there would be extra costs added for shipping fees and taxes from the UK being added to anything bought from the US site.

In saying that, i remember being told in an email from minimania.com all international orders are handled by minispares.



Ahh okay, thanks for that. you really do learn something new everyday

i think we need to fire up the old leyland plant..

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Sorry cush, when Leyland moved out, Navy stores moved in, they left about six years ago and the place was levelled. They are building huge blocks of apartments on it now.

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so?...

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didnt all the tooling get sold to another country like brazil or something? i thought i read that somewhere..

yeah.. so...


still possible..

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Of course. All you need to do is remanufacture all of the tooling. Use CNC machinery and operators who know what they are doing, and anything you make will be better than the original anyway. Kind of like what that British Motor Heritage mob in the UK do right?

BTW my grandfather was a patternmaker at the BMC plant a Zetland for a while, and a mates father was a production engineer there some time afterwards. Shame its all disappeared now...

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quick... lets clone them, NOW!!!

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Bit late for grandad

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might not be... what was his work ethic like?...

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let's just say he didn't spend the working day posting to Mini forums

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If you buy stuff from MiniMania that is available at MiniSpares- YES! They are just a reseller.

Cheaper to buy from MiniSpares UK on everything, except USA-made goodies peculiar to MiniMania.

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Kev, emailed the guy about the parts that I paid for and never got.....well I never got a reply to the email either.....

What a f**ken joke they are!