Where can you buy new DECAL SOCKET PLUG from new? I found mini cooper ones but too large. Any suggestions? did a google search but too many hits for cheapo decals.

 

I have to ask: what is a decal socket plug? Is it a Kiwi thing?

 

yeah nah, i am not sure of the technical terms for the little rubber shoes that go in the hole and you fit decals into on the body of the car ...?

 

add a picture of the Mini ones.

 

Subscribing to this thread. I tried to figure this out last night but came up with nothing. This will be like the time I learned what a rimbellisher was.

 

Google "barrel clips" or "Emblem Clips" and you'll have lots to choose from, such as:

https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/c4/emblem-clip/12856





Cheers
DD

 

Aaahhhhh…emblem mount sockets….

 

you can also use screw anchors of the proper pin size.

 

mini cooper ones

socket holes in jaguar

 

rimebellisher!!!???

 

Yeah, I think I was on the MKII board when someone used the word rimbellisher. I always called them wheel trim rings and had never heard of the term rimbellisher before.

 

That is called a Friction Bush. Part BD25669 for the "Jaguar" emblem or BD25689 for the XJ6 or Double Six badges. Different badges have different retainers. Here is the one for the Jaguar emblem: https://www.sngbarratt.com/English/#...6-8b68f7de11ea

When you called it a socket I was thinking it was something electrical. Similarly, a decal is something thin that might get applied to a model train or airplane, I wasn't thinking of the exterior badges of the car.

 

i don't find many that are plastic sockets of sorts, most seem to be metal clips with heads that are not flush. is it a cass of substitution as they dont make anything like the originals now.?

 

Friction Bush. i'd never have arrived at that terminology. but i see a few similar things using this as a search criteria on Google. cheers

 

the friction bushy thing .. socket

and a scale ref

 

those look like the door mirror screw sockets used in Series 3.