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[sidq]

can anyone comment on my mini's roof drip rails.thank you.(it takes too long just to upload the image so i just paste a link here.and you can take a look at it)

my mini's roof drip rail at minimania

[1340 gt]

am i missing the point!?!?!

comment on what? they are pics of roof guttering? wots the poin/question?

[sidq]

hehe...i want an opinion about my mini's roof because i went to this workshop and the mechanic told me that my mini's body is a japan body.y?.because from that pic he told me that it supposed to have a hole not a cut out.

have any opinion on that.

[Ethel]

It does look different, as if the gutter has been formed out of the body panels rather than the roof.

[Tomf]

Nope thats just a standard drip rail...

[sidq]

ermmm...different or standard roof rail.i cant decide.

but i did get some suggestion to deal with this problem:

1. welding the roof gutter and make a holes
2. buy a roof gutter molding

[Ethel]

I guess they just changed the design at some point. Explains why all the later Minis have roof mouldings.

[sidq]

yup thats what dr mini from minimania told me...this is what he said...

"Looks fine to me. You are missing the "Roof finishing trim", a black or grey plastic extrusion that goes all around the roof. The early cars had the drip rail made in one piece. Later cars had them made in several pieces so they came up with the plastic trim to hide all the seams."

but the mechanic was pretty sure of it.that is what makes me wondering...

[Aria Aradhea]

ermmm...different or standard roof rail.i cant decide.

but i did get some suggestion to deal with this problem:

1. welding the roof gutter and make a holes
2. buy a roof gutter molding

They're both standard. Older Minis (pre '79 IIRC) do have holes in the gutter to let water out, as well as a drip rail along the sides of the car, while later Minis (post '79, again IIRC) have the gaps like in your picture.

So, I guess your car is the later type shell, possibly as you say, came from Japan (one identification point: does it have the standard factory fit air conditioner, or just some makeshift A/C?) cut in half from the pillars up, then reattached.

I'll get a roof gutter moulding, if I were you...

[sidq]

So, I guess your car is the later type shell, possibly as you say, came from Japan (one identification point: does it have the standard factory fit air conditioner, or just some makeshift A/C?) cut in half from the pillars up, then reattached.

i think the latter one...

[Aria Aradhea]

Can you post pictures of your car, including the engine bay and the dashboard (does it have a central speedo or not?)? That would give clues as to your car's id better. It is unfortunately a common practise in Indonesia (and perhaps Malaysia too, though I'm not sure...) to put an older car's id into a newer car. In the UK I believe this is called "Ringing".

My cars (I hate to admit...) were Ringer cars, using older registration (1968 Morris Mini, and 1969 Morris Cooper) into a new car (1990 car and 1989 car respectively). Some reason for this were (1) the police (equal to the UKs DVLA) will not believe that a Mini was made well into the 80s! They are adamant that the Mini were a product of a 60s and 70s decade and that there's no way it was made after 1980s. (2) The cost of importing whole-cars would be 200% from the price of the car itself. (3) Regulation wise, it is illegal to impor used cars, so cars were usually cut in half and then reattached or brought in as half-cuts (front end including engines, subframes, dashboards and steering wheel) and then reattached to current (older) cars.

Amazingly, if you're not an enthusiast, you will never know the difference between older cars and newer cars. Most people will see it just as a Mini, because the car is so rare, so will not know the difference.

[sidq]

i'll post em tomorrow.

[Aria Aradhea]

Great!! Will wait for that...

[sidq]

i cant stand to wait the uploading process...is there any other way for me to post my pics.

[biggav]

i cant stand to wait the uploading process...is there any other way for me to post my pics.

got to www.photobucket.com and create an account, you can then upload all of your pictures to photobucket and when writing your posts on here, click the "insert image" button on the text toolbar and insert the photobucket link.