Headlamp surrounds

[NiceCupOfTea]

Can you get replacements easily? I have some rust coming through. Hoping they're from a Mini or something BH it with my luck they're from a 50s Ferrari or something!

[NiceCupOfTea]

GadgeS3C said:

NiceCupOfTea said:

Can you get replacements easily? I have some rust coming through. Hoping they're from a Mini or something BH it with my luck they're from a 50s Ferrari or something!

Almost as rare as indicator lenses. Actually from the super rare 1963 Ferrari Imbroglione.

Fortunately I have a set spare I can let you have for just £999.99.

You're a gent!

[NiceCupOfTea]

phillpot said:

you'll just have to fabricate the little "L" bracket at the bottom.

Can I use the ones of the old surrounds?

[NiceCupOfTea]

Well, I finally did this and went for chrome on brass, but on fitting discovered the new ones (from MiniSpares) have a lip on the back. I managed to tease one on to the car (test fit before I started drilling/rivetting) and now can't get it off (without distorting it) :-/

So I suppose it has saved me some work but slightly annoying in that they won't come off without help. Worth mentioning though.

http://www.minispares.com/product/Classic/Electric...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Bum. The other one won't go on due to clearance Looks like I'm getting the tinsnips out - be warned chaps, no sure what the standard mini ones are like but you want the ones without the lip. Of course it is impossible to see from the online pictures...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Hells teeth. I am going to have to give up and consign 40 quid of chrome and brass to the bin. They just don't fit, no matter how I cut them about.

Can somebody give me a link to surrounds without the lip on the back (pref. chrome over brass)? The links on page 1 are dead.

Just for once could something on this bloody car be easy?

ETA pics of old/new surrounds:

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Sunday 12th April 16:48

[NiceCupOfTea]

That's really helpful - and cheaper than the bloody ones I bought! Can you confirm they definitely don't have that rim on the back?

Somebody on the Mini forum said the ones without the rim were off an MGB - checked on Moss Europe website and the MGB ones they list have a rim

[NiceCupOfTea]

They look like they've got a bit of a rim on them...

Maybe there's something up with my headlampes

[NiceCupOfTea]

Not sure - what do these look like?

IIRC the lamp itself is Wipac

[NiceCupOfTea]

Well, after they didn't reply to my email, I just spoke to a pretty terse bloke at Minispares who assures me that all the headlamp surrounds are the same with the lip, and if they don't fit then my car doesn't use Mini headlamp surrounds

I feel like I am going around in circles here. I'm not spending any more money ordering things on the offchance, I need to see them first... SOmebody has told me the ones with the rolled lip are from an MGB, but I can't see any pics of any...

[NiceCupOfTea]

That would be perfect Ray, what a gent! Could you take one of the mounting rims too?

I found these on ebay by searching for 8" Wipac s5445 (as per TVR S slternative parts list) which might be right, but my headlamps may not even be standard, Norman may have upgraded them...

Went out for a drive just now to cheer myself up (have just written off the roof on my BMW cab) and the TVR ran faultlessly

[NiceCupOfTea]

Thanks Ray! What make are your headlamps? The backs of them look the same as mine, but the surrounds seem to have the same lip as the ones I got that don't fit

I have emailed s-v-c about the surrounds they sell (several different types) but have had no reply as yet. I'm sure Norman said that was where he got the previous ones from.