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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Bonnet buffers

Can anyone clarify how many of the rectangular bonnet buffers there should be on a 1275 car (MK 1V Sprite). No cat content, I don't mean buffers for polishing.

I am referring to the ones that go in the wing channels either side of the bonnet. Not the rubber cone things at the front slam panel.

My car has 1 either side, but then I fitted these years ago and may have got it wrong then. The base plates have rusted and the rubbers come loose. MGOC and Sussex Classic Cars show just 1 each side, but Moss list 4 needed per car? So, who is right?

Guy

possibly both correct; two for the bonnet and IIRC 2 on the bootlid but only on the earlier cars...
David Smith

My bootlid has 4, but they are different shapes to the bonnet ones.
Guy

Guy: my '66 has one each side only. The car has original wings [OK one was written off in 1976 but was replaced with a contemporaneous second hand one]
David Cox

Thanks David,
I have just ordered 2. There are only drillings in the gutter for one each side and it has worked well enough like that for the time since I fitted them last.

Cheers!
Guy

Only one each side.

Dave O'Neill2

Guy,

definitely only one per side; the Heritage shell also has holes drilled for one per side -just visible on the attached.
(Photo taken just after engine started for the first time - hence the beers...)

Jeremy

Jeremy 3

Thanks all. I was pretty sure, until Moss said 4!
2 will do the job fine!
Guy

Yup, '66 Sprite, two is standard on the wings.

However, I have thought of adding two more nearer the front of the wings, as my bonnet vibrates a little too much for my taste, at tickover, even though the two main front buffers on the bonnet, are adjusted properly and in good condition.
Lawrence Slater

This thread was discussed between 16/02/2012 and 17/02/2012

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