Poor quality parts
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A comment just made by Simon in one of the other threads has just reminded me about buying cheap equals buying twice....

While working on the car yesterday, I noticed the near side engine mount was starting to separate. I've seen this a thousand times but these are effectively brand new (been fitted a couple of years but engine has never run).

I had a look on the shelf and found a couple of mounts with the captive nuts- they came with a car and I would never normally use them. Yesterday, I was up against it and decided to try one to get everything back together. I was gobsmacked to find the holes didn't line up with the engine bracket.

So 2 different mounts and both equally poor quality..........

yeh mate the ones with captive nuts never seem to line up ,where did you get the ones on the car?

give em hell

I can't recall where I got them from as it has been a few years.

With regard to the captive nut mounts, I always expected them to be a pain, I just never imagined I'd have to file out one of the holes to fit it to the rad bracket!

I had RS Turbos and bought a lot of rubbish parts. Then got back into minis around 2003 and bought hundreds of parts from Minispares. I have been pleasantly surprised that most of those parts worked well

Ive had all four ball joint covers perish. And the car hasnt even touched the road....

Yes unfortunatley I too have found this to e true.

An example being my polybush subframe mounts