Bill,
My MG badge did not fit the holes !! I would love metal 'shaped' badges
instead of plastic ones but I suppose that is because we all want cheap
replacements.
At 04:28 PM 11/22/04, WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 22/11/2004 4:16:09 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>barrie@look.ca writes:
>Strangely enough I have just come in from fitting B GT and MG badges on the
>tail gate of my MGB GT. You are right the plastic plugs are pretty useless
>
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>Mine had little round metal washers instead of the plastic tubes you are
>talking about - I've seen those too.
>
>Would the cost of proper speed clips at maybe .08 a piece really make the
>badge sets to expensive to sell??
>
>And every damned factory set I have ever seen fits the holes exactly - if
>the after-market ones don't they go back.
>
>BTW - this isn't just Moss - I've seen pretty much the same thing from
>several vendors, possibly from the same source in the orient.
>
>Is anyone else out ther with me - would you pay double (a huge $20) for a
>part that was straight, the pins dropped into the holes, that still had
>chrome on it when they got to you, that had the correct sort of clips.......
>
>Bill
>
>
Barrie Robinson
barrie@look.ca
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