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[jmmini]

As above, I wanting to take the mini down to have its love handles cut out and have proper sills put on before winter. Has anyone used minimod (rotherham) and what were they like?

Cheers.

[Bungle]

http://www.theminifo...ices-enquiries/

[miniman retford]

Not used them myself but have friends that have, only heard good things about them

[DAD10]

Yes they're ok,had loads of work done by them over the years,its run by twin brothers.

[rotherham]

He's a wealth of knowledge and gives plenty of free advice. Twin brothers? I never knew that,are we on about minimod at bramley? Have I been going and speaking to two different people then! Lol

[Jake Didsbury]

If you mean the one at Bramley, he knows loads off stuff and everytime ive been down hes stood and talked to me about minis for a good 40 minutes, he also knows alot about the injection minis, and has alot of genuine rover stuff what you just cant get anymore, stuff ive only seen at his place that ive seen no where else in the country

Top Bloke worth dealing with

Edited by Jake Didsbury, 05 October 2012 - 07:19 AM.

[iamzod]

I know this is an old thread but I feel it deserves a reply even though it isn't related to an actual Mini, but a guy some of you may go to at some point for work done.

 

In 2005 I took a Ford Capri 2.8i to these guys as I had heard good things, and bodywork is bodywork right?

 

I had a full respray, 2 new rear arches, 2 new rear lower quarter panels a bit of a repair under the bonnet behind the headlight, a tiny scuttle repair and a repair on the drivers door near the hinge. The car looked great for about a month until the paint started to micro blister allover the roof which they fixed. I had problems with the paint ever since, fast forward 4 years to 2009 and every horizontal panel on the car had blisters on it, even the bonnet which was brand new & still packaged when I gave it to them is covered in thousands of micro blisters, he did try to blame the old paint underneath but the bonnet is brand new and was still in it's factory primer. One wheelarch has bubbles in the paint allover it and the other is starting to distort where it should meet the inner arch, the rear lower quarters have started rusting badly the door is worse than it was in 2005 and there are bubbles appearing where they repaired behind the headlight. The scuttle is also a mess.

 

The car came off the road in 2009, in 2011 i started stripping it down, learned how to weld & got stuck in myself, here is what I discovered-

 

Bubbles in a "new" panel?

 

 

Anyone want some bodyfiller, i appear to have plenty!

 

 

Is that the inner arch there that is crusty as hell? No that's the original arch that they appear to have ground back to bare metal, there were actually shiny unpainted parts of it under there still, so they hadn't even primered anything, there was what looked like the ramains of a body filled hole in there which had grown in size massively towards the front of the arch.

 

 

 

I think when you are repairing an arch you are supposed to make it look more like this-

 

 

Maybe actually replace the crusty inner arch lip!

 

 

And then maybe actually consider welding the new arch over the clean NON RUSTY inner arch like so.

 

 

I thought i'd post pictures of the repairs in-case they ever read this thread, they may learn something.

 

I'd add pictures of the pigs ear they made of the other bits too but i'd be here all day, it's a similar story with all their repairs though, leave the rusty metal there & just weld over it & then bodyfiller galore! To think i paid them £3700 for their bodge work! Pretty bad that someone who watches a few welding videos on youtube can go out & chuck £300 at a mig welder & do a better job than a "Professional".

 

AVOID!

 

 

 

[tcho100]

I think the above post is complete fake.

[iamzod]

I think the above post is complete fake.

 

What would be the point in this? If you want to use the company then feel free.

 

I still have paperwork from them which is on letter headed paper that I could dig out.

[Gillybobs]

Plenty Of NOS rover/unipart stuff at minimod always worth a visit. Selling a bit of stuff on ebay too now.

http://www.ebay.co.u...788.m1543.l2654

[Nick Warwick]

Not seen minimod open for ages. I thought he had shut.

[Gillybobs]

No Trevor is still going with minimod. Think hes very relaxed with his opening hours! Got all the panels for my car from there. Trevor still got new old stock rover panels with rover stickers on! I always end up spending ages there talking about minis . Proper old school shop.

http://minimodclassi...ssic_Minis.html