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[A-Cell]

Did not fit the heavy duty tie bar washers part number PWZ207
Left the the rear brake backplate fixings loose.
Fitted rear camber and toe adjustable brackets and adjustable tie bars without setting the geometry.

Were the most dangerous safety related items in a list of over 50 issues!

[TheFabMini]

Fitted everything (I mean everything) finger tight and didn’t tell me..
This includes the clutch/flywheel but he had put the lock tab down..
Ball joints.. lock tabs down..
Hub nut with split pin in
Shocks
And various other parts all finger tight...

I get the feeling he spent a few years restoring it, run out of love so just chucked everything on in an afternoon to sell it as all the parts were brand new but just not really attached

[M700FGT]

These really are making me laugh (and cry).

 

Its crazy what people do to Mini's!

 

if this was a competition, i really do think the copper piping would take the prize. Its somewhere between madness, stupidity and genius!

[Lplus]

Fitted quick release pins to the bonnet hinges as well as an internal bonnet release and rubber bonnet catches to the front of the bonnet.

 

Removed the top and bottom crash rails off the dash and fitted a home made facia but without a fixing for the instruments.

 

Fitted a stereo into the switch panel hole and fitted the switches and so on into the facia above.

 

Drilled 3 holes in the bonnet for air vents but cut one hole through the bonnet stiffener.

[MrBounce]

I bought my old Mayfair from a girl who was going travelling back in 1999. She said that the stereo in the car was being taken out, which was fair enough as I was going to put my own in. What she didn't tell me as I got in to test drive and moved the seat was that the amp for said stereo was mounted on the crossmember under the driver's seat. When I moved the seat back I trapped my finger and it took about 5 minutes for me to get it out as I couldn't move the seat unless I put more weight on it, which crushed my finger further.

 

They'd also put cheap 6x9 speakers (white ones! ) in the back shelf - I can only assume that they'd used an axe to cut holes in the shelf as there were hideously dangerous spikes of metal pointing everywhere. 

 

Thankfully it was a decent car so I bought it. The feeling eventually came back to my fingertip a day later (!) and my friend who worked at a car stereo shop tidied the vandalised shelf up with a nibbler.

[mini-mad-mark]

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'nuff said...

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Drove 44 miles in 19 years

[Midas Mk1]

Oversills, bolt in bleed nipple on calliper, 3/4 3 coats painted, rear 1/4 with one coat of paint, 3 slave cylinders wedge between bulkhead and subframe... lol 

[surfblue]

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'nuff said...

Errr, what is that? The love child of a Mini Clubman and a Landrover Discovery? 

[surfblue]

Despite fully restoring and painting a bare shell prior to restoration the restorer used oversills and instead of using readily available floor pans used some sore of flat steel. Having said that its a superb job, well completed, totally solid and painted in body colour, Its waxed where it needs to be, doesnt go out in winter's salty roads so the oversills are not causing the harm they ordinarily would in a daily driven car. Ideally Id like to put a full heritage floor into the car to bring it back to how it should be but cant really justify the cost for something that only 'rivet counters' worry about. It hasn't stopped the car from winning best in show and best in class several times. It just irks me that they have gone to so much trouble restoring the car but to do hidden things wrong. 

[sonscar]

To be fair to overspill fitters some thought that removing the holes must be a good thing.If you fitted them first as part of the floor,then fitted inner sills straight down thus avoiding the double skin overlap?Just a thought,Steve..

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Oversills, bolt in bleed nipple on calliper, 3/4 3 coats painted, rear 1/4 with one coat of paint, 3 slave cylinders wedge between bulkhead and subframe... lol

If it wasnt for oversills many minis wouldnt be here today. Like them or hate them, they have saved 1000s of minis

[steeley]

The previous owner repaired the inner sills with some sections of 6mm thick steel plate ......

Maybe he was trying to lower the centre of gravity

[mm man]

On my mini minus  (grp shell)  they had the electrical earths all coming together then bolted them though the inner ply wood rear quarter trim .?? Surprise they didn’t work!

Also they had moved the drivers seat that far back the lower seat belt mount also though they ply ???? Instead of the built in steel frame that takes the seat belt mounts .

[Algordo1100]

One of mine once had two snapped wheel studs but the nuts were glued to the wheels to hide it