Clips for chrome door trim
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Clips for chrome door trim
Anyone got any experience of using the Mini spares clips with old chrome door trim?
Have a few missing and just wondered if clips only work with the new trim.
Appreciate any tips before a buy them, not a I job I enjoy….
Cheers
Have a few missing and just wondered if clips only work with the new trim.
Appreciate any tips before a buy them, not a I job I enjoy….
Cheers
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
had problems with differing size new cups that would not fit genuine old trims .. solution was to "Bodge " with Tigerseal type glue mixed with the recycled use of some old OE cups which had to have their holes enlarged to fit the new rivets ..then had issue with over long new supplied rivets that foul onto the side of the Mk1 internal window channels .. Bodge worked in the end. 

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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
Cheers for the heads up, suspected it might be a PITA.....
Anyone got stash of old clips they might part with ?
Anyone got stash of old clips they might part with ?
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
These are much more like the originals and work well with original trims in my experience
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202127407166
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202127407166
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
Well I don't really need any, unless the elusive project comes along, but I'll buy a couple of sets just in case, based on Simon's observation
I should have drilled the rivets off the Elves and Hornets I robbed the trims off many years ago in the local scrapyard !

I should have drilled the rivets off the Elves and Hornets I robbed the trims off many years ago in the local scrapyard !
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
They do look closer, cheers, got some and some spares winging their way to me……no doubt, will put the spares on the shelf, forget Ive got them and buy them again anyway….Simon776 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 11:07 am These are much more like the originals and work well with original trims in my experience
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202127407166

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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
Re the above. Is that a set for a car or a set for one side? Can't decide. Worth having I say
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
Reading through advert I think its one pack per door, isn’t it ?
First thought it was for one clip….nearly fell of the sofa
First thought it was for one clip….nearly fell of the sofa
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
Per door Peter.Peter Laidler wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 6:49 pm Re the above. Is that a set for a car or a set for one side? Can't decide. Worth having I say
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
Are they Bresco's ?Simon776 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 11:07 am These are much more like the originals and work well with original trims in my experience
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202127407166
https://www.bresco.com/acatalog/Mouldin ... F317P.html
https://www.bresco.com/acatalog/Round-- ... F081P.html
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
Those Bresco pt no BSF081P Pop Rivets ..when the "trim washer is taken off" make a good solution Pop Rivet to re-fix the Austin / Morris / Westlake Rocker Cover Badges because those Pop Rivets are short in length and have a sealed inner end. 

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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
Do these ebay trim clips also work well with the original later/taller Mk3 Elf/Hornet chrome door trims?
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Re: Clips for chrome door trim
The ebay ones look excellent, as are the Minimachine ones. Sad to say that the MS ones are pants.