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PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:33 am 
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Hello peoples. anybody know of a place in AUS who sells the W & P classic arches???

Gotta try and find a new one to match my old set.

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No. I searched for ages and basically only from W&P themselves. Even in the UK no one resells, though there are copies. Are you sure that Con put genuine ones on your car? I'd be finding out where he got them from and be getting them from the same place to be sure..

I even went to order them from W&P themselves and they couldn't send me any for a month because they didn't have any of the rubber strip in stock. From what i hear they closed down a while ago and opened up again under new ownership, how much of this is true i don't know.

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Not true, about 12 months ago I bought a set from a Mini specialist somewhere in VIC. There were others who could supply them but they were the cheapest. Call some of the people on the mini businesses list in How To.


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The people who have them aren't resellers, they have brought them in off their own back. I did call around a few local shops and some in Vic January this year so i would be interested to know where you got them from, W&P stopped making them for a while and no one had any.

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We have just re-tooled our Classic Wood & Pickett Wheel Arches due to some difficulties with the previous tooling. They are now better than ever...but more importantly...readily available once again. Order your set today for next working day delivery.

N.B. WP wheel arches are only sold by us. Copies are sold elsewhere for less, but are not ours!


There are a lot of arches out there being passed off as W&P and lots of copies that it's probably hard to tell the difference :?:

See here, no one could tell me where to get them from in Oz.
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26466&highlight=pickett

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I just went through my receipts and discovered that I dealt with Northern Mini Parts. No date on the receipt but it was about 12 months ago.

The price was $157

It is possible that these are cheap repo's but they look identicle to me. I was posting a lot about W&P organising a bit of a bulk buy but all my emails were never answered from WP.

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i'd say they are copy's if you got them from nmp. i got some group 2's from there which they said wher genuines but they wernt.

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Bromley... how well did they fit? Did you need to contort them to fit the shap of the car (like you have to do with the shitty innocenti flares)?

I like the look of W&P arches and was considering buying some. If copies are almost as good in regards to quality then i'm more than happy to buy a copy locally.

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genuine arch quality is skeptical at best anyway...
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20515&highlight=wood+pickett

I can personally vouch that their service is shocking too..they never repspond to emails and when i called them they weren't particularly helpful either.

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i guess its time to get calling then. dammit. i dont really want to buy copies. i still have the other three originals so if copies arent quite identical its gunne look odd. unless i buy a whole set. the price of $157 sounds about right, cause they are 59.70 pounds.

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They honestly fit really well. I muscled them in to place as I pop rivetted them on. Some where easier than others but all in all very easy.


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