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[mini_mad69]

Looking to buy a set of sportspack copies, whats best the rubber or fibreglass ones?

[herdy]

I've never had any experience with the fibreglass ones but i've found that the studs in the rubber strip and can be a real bar steward to take out.

[mini_mad69]

I've been told by someone that the rubber ones flap about. And I've seen a few that looked rippled and can only assume they're the rubber ones.

[Mini 360]

Cheap copies flap about, genuine ones dont.  If going genuine, i would go rubber as they will be easier to fit.  If going non genuine I would go fibreglass.  

 

 

Genuine rubber all the way! 

[miniboy1993]

Yeah get genuine rubber that's what I have on mine fibre glass is nasty stuff

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[Tupers]

The genuine one's a plastic not rubber. 

 

If I was looking to fit a set I would choose either original plastic ones or fibreglass. I've seen a maybe 6 sets of the rubber ones fitted and all of them were rippled and sagging. 

[Dan]

Early ones were hard rubber, later ones ABS. The same rubber as the skinny arches used on late '90s Defenders. They were definitely rubber because I knocked into one on the stand at the Motor Show at Earls Court and it flexed so far the paint all peeled off it in a sheet. Nobody from Rover noticed and I backed away quietly!

[mini_mad69]

Thanks for the replies, I've bought a new second hand set of fibreglass ones off ebay.