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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

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.

Cheers for the heads up, suspected it might be a PITA.....

Anyone got stash of old clips they might part with ?

These are much more like the originals and work well with original trims in my experience

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202127407166

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 !

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

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….

Re the above. Is that a set for a car or a set for one side? Can't decide. Worth having I say

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

Exminiman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 6:35 pm ..... will put the spares on the shelf, forget Ive got them and buy them again anyway….

Glad it not just me that does that

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

Per door Peter.

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

Are they Bresco's ?
https://www.bresco.com/acatalog/Mouldin ... F317P.html
https://www.bresco.com/acatalog/Round-- ... F081P.html

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.

Do these ebay trim clips also work well with the original later/taller Mk3 Elf/Hornet chrome door trims?

The ebay ones look excellent, as are the Minimachine ones. Sad to say that the MS ones are pants.