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zyo · Jan 15th, 2007, 09:36 AM

I asked about this a couple of years ago when i had mine done because i had heard about it. Oddly i don't have one though. I was a little annoyed that i had paid £240 to have the official stripes but i ended up with what i assume is just the stuff the sub contracted graphics guy uses.The stuff i would have been charged about £75 had i gone after market. At the time,i mentioned to the dealer about the authentification mark and explained what it was, he said "oh..that's what it was, we sent a load back the other week because we thought they were faulty". Do the original MINI stripes come pre cut because mine certainly weren't and were cut with would must have been a bread knife or a spoon they were that rough.On ebay around the same time someone was flogging some genuine MINI viper stripes and they were precut and on a sort of backing. Like i say i was charged for the official ones but don't think i have them. ( for what it's worth i realise that they would be the same thing but , apart from one possibly being pre cut, but it's the thought of being charged for an official item but not being given it that annoyed me at the time.) I hope yours are fitted well cos mine were put on all crooked . When i spoke to the salesman about it he said that "Joe Bloggs wouldn't notice when i drove down the road". Seeing as Joe Bloggs wasn't paying £240 for them i didn't really see his point.

Jan 15th, 2007, 09:36 AM	#10
zyo owt else is just traffic Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The Edge of Reason Local Time: 04:50 PM Posts: 1,424 Offline	I asked about this a couple of years ago when i had mine done because i had heard about it. Oddly i don't have one though. I was a little annoyed that i had paid £240 to have the official stripes but i ended up with what i assume is just the stuff the sub contracted graphics guy uses.The stuff i would have been charged about £75 had i gone after market. At the time,i mentioned to the dealer about the authentification mark and explained what it was, he said "oh..that's what it was, we sent a load back the other week because we thought they were faulty". Do the original MINI stripes come pre cut because mine certainly weren't and were cut with would must have been a bread knife or a spoon they were that rough.On ebay around the same time someone was flogging some genuine MINI viper stripes and they were precut and on a sort of backing. Like i say i was charged for the official ones but don't think i have them. ( for what it's worth i realise that they would be the same thing but , apart from one possibly being pre cut, but it's the thought of being charged for an official item but not being given it that annoyed me at the time.) I hope yours are fitted well cos mine were put on all crooked . When i spoke to the salesman about it he said that "Joe Bloggs wouldn't notice when i drove down the road". Seeing as Joe Bloggs wasn't paying £240 for them i didn't really see his point.