Can someone please tell me why my 1997 Rover Mini's rear windows don't push out like all other Minis? Even my 1993 Rover has push out windows.

Just wondering if this is a super rare model worth tones of cash, or if they just changed them over?

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Ones fitted with A/C don't open. (so that's just about every one in Japan)

designed to seal unlike the other ones id be happy, the look cleaner to my humble eye!

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speed costs....how fast do you want to go...

im pretty sure they still had windows that pushed out... yours are just weird

Rover were tight in the later years. If you didn't order it, you didn't get it.
I dare say it could be converted, but you could be in for some swearin'.

"yours are just weird"


Thats a pretty big call coming from you!!!!


Doogie

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Reading into them (Rover Mini's) the cheaper versions came with sealed windows, only coopers came with push out windows, they also came and went with various models over time like LE's

So summary, only Cooper Mini came with pop outs, if I had read the right bits, and asked the right questions

So Lurker is you car a Cooper???

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Monte

We were spoiled in Australia because all our Minis had opening rear side windows. The poms only got them on the luxury models. The stock models had fixed windows.

I'll throw in my combo of actual knowledge, hazy memories and idle speculation....

I've had a 1986 Austin Mayfair, a 1990 Rover Cooper and a 1992 Rover Mayfair and all had the pop-out windows.

It's possible that some of the non-mayfair & non-cooper ones didn't (ie the city and special editions) but when I was a kid my mum had a late 70s Mini City and my grandad had an early 80s Mini City and I can't be too sure but I seem to remember them having them too (with my face pressed against the glass to get some fresh air)

I think by 1997 there wasn't really any special editions that weren't of the fancy variety, so you'd normally be getting more features not less, also by then I'd imagine that most of the output was Coopers

The japanese a/c reason sounds the most plausible to me.

It's funny - until someone points something like this out, you just don't realise how little you know...

Hold up - i've found a pic of a mid-80s mini city that suggests i am talking out of my behind....



...looks sealed in to me

I have photos of various models from years and countries (with and mwithout aircon).
There is no definite pattern. It would appear to be random.

ALL Uk minis definatly had oppeners up till 82, i would imagine the sealed ones started in 86 along with the discs etc, just speculation.

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M1100 is right. They had fixed windows long before Rover badges went on.

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Mine's originally a Mayfair (cheapie ), but it has the push out windows. Only problem is that they don't lock into place when opened, only closed.

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They had fixed windows before they had opening windows.