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MG MG Y Type - Pinchweld on YA's

The pinchweld around the door openings on my YA is a bit past it's prime (like me!) as the picture below shows (I won't attach one of me). It is a material outer covering over a metal clip style of fixing, which comes adrift at the drop of a hat.
I visited my local upholsterer friend and he gave me a sample of a modern pinchweld which will certainly do the job, but may not satisfy the originality appearances. Will attach a picture of a sample.
What have other owners used? I couldn't find any mention of it in LTBYs
John Turner
YA6214 Tassie

J B Turner

Picture of sample pinchweld attached

J B Turner

Hi John

OK are you referring to the draught excluder that the door shuts up onto that is mounted around the door frames?

If so, the reason you cannot find any reference to it in LTBYs is simple - it was not originally fitted to Ys, Y/Ts or YBs. That was used was a rubber exctrusion like a P where the bottom of the loop on the P was open so that the door frame went inside the loop of the P. The extrusiuon is then nailed to the metal frame of the car in the compressed paper that jams into recesses around the door or at the B pillar post it is help in place by the B pillar post fillet (saloons only).

The extusion itself was covered in a fabric weave cloth.

The extrusion and a reproduction cloth (only an anorak would know it is reproduction because the weft of the weave is horizontal instead of vertical) are available from Woolies (www.woolies-trim.co.uk) and are part numbers 306 (cloth) and R123 (extrusion) as noted on the Links page entry for Woolies on www.mgytypes.org.

Paul
Paul Barrow

G'day Paul
Thanks for that info. Will check it out.
John
J B Turner

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