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[foggy]

Hi everyone,

I am doing a fibre glass flipfront on my clubman restoration. i have cut everything off that i should have done and bought the brace bars from mini speed at what i consider to be expensive for what they are!!!!...anyway i tried fitting them today but the angles are completely out not even close! that makes me think either im doing something wrong or the bars are just rubbish?

I want to make sure im right in thinking that the bars fit from the front of the sub frame up to just above the shock mountings on the outside of the inner wings?

this is what i attempted but doesn't seem to fit at all. just want your thoughts before i go complaining to minispeed about the bars! lol

Cheers

[Bungle]

remember you can remove the wings and front panel but if you touch the inner wings your in for an IVA test

it's a bit odd but thats the DVLA for you

[Guess-Works.com]

Brace bars for the clubby are different to those for the round nose...

[foggy]

Brace bars for the clubby are different to those for the round nose...

yeah i bought the clubman specific ones?? do i really have to do an iva?? iv heard many different versions of that.?

[shorty]

Brace bars for the clubby are different to those for the round nose...

yeah i bought the clubman specific ones?? do i really have to do an iva?? iv heard many different versions of that.?

if you've chopped the inner wings off then chances are it could well do

[foggy]

Brace bars for the clubby are different to those for the round nose...

yeah i bought the clubman specific ones?? do i really have to do an iva?? iv heard many different versions of that.?

if you've chopped the inner wings off then chances are it could well do

i have indeed, what if the garage passes it through the mot? surely then i wouldnt have to have iva?

[mk3 Cooper S]

Brace bars for the clubby are different to those for the round nose...

yeah i bought the clubman specific ones?? do i really have to do an iva?? iv heard many different versions of that.?

if you've chopped the inner wings off then chances are it could well do

i have indeed, what if the garage passes it through the mot? surely then i wouldnt have to have iva?

Yes I want to know what people think of this point too.
Also the more we go on about IVA testing on here the more chance of keeping the IVA high profile and it not just going away like other directives have!!!

[roofless]

I think its clear Bungle is the IVA monitor - but its getting like one of those old guys who carry placards and shout - the end is nigh........THE END IS NIGH !!!

getting a bit over-powering now.

[Bungle]

a friend of mines work mate has just had his landrover impounded, it was a 60's landy and a range rover chassis but with the landys V5

got stopped for a road side check outside a off road meet

he had to find his own way home as they took his V5 tax disk and MOT off of him and impounded the landrover

from what i have been told to get it back, IVA it and modifications needed has cost him £1500

[mk3 Cooper S]

I think its clear Bungle is the IVA monitor - but its getting like one of those old guys who carry placards and shout - the end is nigh........THE END IS NIGH !!!

getting a bit over-powering now.

Yes agreed.

We're all doomed!!!!

[mk3 Cooper S]

a friend of mines work mate has just had his landrover impounded, it was a 60's landy and a range rover chassis but with the landys V5

got stopped for a road side check outside a off road meet

he had to find his own way home as they took his V5 tax disk and MOT off of him and impounded the landrover

from what i have been told to get it back, IVA it and modifications needed has cost him £1500

You mean it was a ringer!!

Chassis number is exactly that. nothing to do with IVA I expect.

[Darkscamp]

yes but have you seen some of those landrovers!!! Some of them look like they shouldnt even be used offroad let alone on the public highway. My mates 8 year old son can stand under the front bumper of another mate of mines landrover, so that surely cant be safe on the road. Basically most of them are mega clearance offroaders with indicators and a passenger seat.

[roofless]

a friend of mines work mate has just had his landrover impounded, it was a 60's landy and a range rover chassis but with the landys V5

got stopped for a road side check outside a off road meet

he had to find his own way home as they took his V5 tax disk and MOT off of him and impounded the landrover

from what i have been told to get it back, IVA it and modifications needed has cost him £1500

You mean it was a ringer!!

Chassis number is exactly that. nothing to do with IVA I expect.

yep - ringer - sorry to say he kinda run the gauntlet and got caught.

[Shifty]

Whats the world coming too.....you can't ring cars to make them look newer and now you can't ring them to make them older???

Makes no sense to me!!!!

[mk3 Cooper S]

yes but have you seen some of those landrovers!!! Some of them look like they shouldnt even be used offroad let alone on the public highway. My mates 8 year old son can stand under the front bumper of another mate of mines landrover, so that surely cant be safe on the road. Basically most of them are mega clearance offroaders with indicators and a passenger seat.

Not to mention the huge winches etc at children pedestrian head height