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[megamini_jb]

Finally got my hands on a genuine AutoPlas louvre for the rear window    I have wanted one for god knows how long! proper chuffed as they have either been replicas or silly money for the real deal. The last genuine one I saw was painted Yellow, damaged and missing the fitting kit but went for £150 and few months before that one went for £232!

A replica one sold about a month back and even that went for £137 (£135 new from ABS)

 

Anyway, I have the original side tab thingys and the middle bar with tabs, but how exactly do I put it on?... all I know the tabs go under the window rubber...

From what I can gather looking at it, the middle bar goes on the window first and then the side tabs stay on the louvre, but the middle bar is so tight on the louvre I can't see it flexing enough without it cracking to get the middle bar back in!

 

I'm half tempted to just bond it on 

 

Cheers

 

 

[cradley-heathen]

tell you what, give it me, ill fit it on mine as a test run......ill give it back I promise! 

[1984mini25]

Gaffer tape?

[megamini_jb]

tell you what, give it me, ill fit it on mine as a test run......ill give it back I promise! 

 

On your bike! 

 

I figured it out in the end. Pretty easy really, I was just worried about cracking it but all good and looks  although it is nice and secure I think I am still going to use just a bit of double sided thin foam pad on the tabs 

 

Do you still have that super clean Orange/Red Metro? A louvre on that would be even cooler! 

Edited by megamini_jb, 28 February 2018 - 11:03 PM.

[megamini_jb]

Gaffer tape?

 

You know me too well, lol joke, i'll be using that to keep the rest of the mini in one piece soon 

Edited by megamini_jb, 28 February 2018 - 10:58 PM.

[Dusky]

Fillet strip removed from the windscreen seal and it ll just pop in. They can bend quite a bit ;)

[surfblue]

 

 all good and looks  

 

I bet it doesnt! They were horrible years ago and Im sure age does nothing to improve them! 

[megamini_jb]

They're definitely marmite! I personally love them   on the right looking mini they look awesome, but on some they can look ugly

[CityEPete]

I had an 8 year break from minis, I was amazed when I rejoined the scene to see people would actually pay money for the parts we laughed at a decade before! Weller wheels and louvre grills what happened? Lol

[surfblue]

Weller wheels, another cr4p aftermarket accessory, rusting white painted steel wheels, the ruin of many a Mini and Landrover!

[CityEPete]

Nudge bars front and rear too.

[Rufus The Red Mini]

I've got weller white wheels, front and rear nudge bars and I'm looking for a reasonably priced louvre rear window, how uncool am I, I've also got headlight peaks that most people hate. God knows what they say about my sun visor!!!! I think I should keep it locked in the garage before it gets a complex!!!!