Reccomendations for good panel suppliers

Post by **lowedb** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:40 pm

Hi.

Does anyone have any reccomendations (or otherwise) for panel suppliers? I need all the normal underside bits, and want the best fittting panels rather than having to do a lot of tweaking.

Post by **Kevin** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:03 pm

Bull Motif or East Sussex both do their best to supply the best available and will even change parts/suppliers if the quality is below par.

Post by **g_land** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 11:39 am

I just order parts from East Sussex Minor and they are a good bunch to deal with. No problems with them so far

Post by **salty_monk** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 1:39 pm

I've only used Bull Motif & the Morris Minor Centre in Bath. The first lot I found pretty helpful, the guys in Bath seemed to not know what they were talking about... or maybe I asked the wrong questions!!

The website for the latter is pretty comprehensive if not particularly well designed...

http://www.morris-minor.co.uk/index.htm

Post by **rayofleamington** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:29 pm

lowedb,
The best panels were made by Henrics in Nottingham.
They closed down one or 2 years ago, so the only way to get their stuff is to buy second hand from unfinished projects!
Not easy if you need something ASAP, but their stuff was excellent. If you can put jobs off for years (my normal timing..) then they are worth looking for. Their panels were all stamped HENRICS.
A lot of their tooling went to LMC Hadrian, but having seen LMC panels on other cars (very thin) I wouldn't ask for one.

Post by **lowedb** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:43 am

Thanks everyone.

BTW, I had been wondering why I'd not seen anything about Henric since I came back to looking for panels.

I'm thinking of going to the Newark Autojumble tommorow (22nd) to see if anyone's selling the panels I need. I'll look out for Henric bits!

Post by **Robins** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:55 pm

The way I understood it was LMC and Hadrian are two different companys but I might be wrong. The LMC badge is yellow background and black writting and yes like Ray said awful panels, thin and don't fit. Hadrian panels have a green label much larger and has white fethers or something up the side and white writting I think, I have replaced all the available panels under my traveller using Hadrian panels and they are much better quality and a brilliant fit. I live local to the the factory where they are prest and got them through an agent in Yeovil. I would recomend Hadrian myself.

Post by **Cam** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 2:36 pm

I would recomend Hadrian myself.

Thanks for the info mate, I was wondering myself about the Henrics/LMC/Hadrian situation. It seems like Hadrians are the ones then. I have visited their website (quite good - except the pictures!) and they have plenty of agents all over the country.

Post by **rayofleamington** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 2:43 pm

Aha! Sorry for any confusion then - I'm sure I'd seen a label that said LMC Hadrian, but if they are seperate comapnies that's a different kettle of fish.

Certainly the bacofoil sill I just fitted to a Fiesta (LMC) wasn't the quality I would want on a Minor!

Post by **g_land** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:48 pm

can anyone tell me who makes these panels, I hope you can see the label clear enough:

G

Post by **edd** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:56 pm

Looks like the hadria lable to me.

Post by **rayofleamington** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:42 pm

might need a few more welds before it is MOT standard tho!

Post by **g_land** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:13 pm

ray

they just arrived on saturday and I didn;t get a chance to do anything with them. I'm working in Holland at the moment so my father took the pics and sent them to me so I could see what they are like!

Hopefully during the week my welder will be in and some work will be done

George

Post by **rayofleamington** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:30 pm

Hi George.
Iknow the feeling - I struggle to work on my cars from a different country too!
Mind you I've not travelled for a month, but got lumbered welding cars for mates instead

Just remember to use the door as a template when doing such major metal surgery!
Cars have a habit of relaxing into a new shape when you chop out floors and sills...

Post by **g_land** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:23 pm

i know, my car has had a lot of major work done to it and I've tried to do everything to get her to keep her shape. I just hope that at the end of the day she will be alright.

but got lumbered welding cars for mates instead

well if you ever want to come to ireland and do some for me I know a few great pubs to wash down the dirt at the end of a days work