anyone know where i can get one or make the old one work?

 

I wish i did cause i would like 2 get one 2

 

The old one should work on the MCS black grille. However MINI will be coming out with a new version of the holder (with longer screws) in a month or so.

 

I'm eagerly awaiting this new holder and saving up money for badges. (I know they don't cost much, but I just bought a new car.) Hope that MotoringFile will have a big announcement when it's available and White Roof Radio will do a whole show on it. (I was joking about the latter, but it would be interesting to hear some of the history behind grill badges.) Thanks, Gabe.

 

lol - we will try to accommodate

 

thanks Gabe...I am sure they will address the MC and it's new grill..I hope. It's completely different.

hey...give me a shout out on the show!!!!!!!!



dave c

 

I have the old style badge holder and a one day old R56 MCS, so tonight I'll try to mount the holder to the new grill. If it works I'll post tomorrow.

 

I had to cut some of the protective tubing away from the bolt to fit the narrow grill and backing plate.

This is a view of the badge mounted on the grill, the bolts stick out quite a bit already. They don't interfer with anything that I could see. There is very little room to work in there and it took several minutes and a couple dropped nuts and washers before it was tightened down.

I put it in the corner so it would block the radiator flow.

Here's my first badge, color matches the monochromatic nature of my MINI.

I would like to thank toddsmods for providing such a great badge, very nice experience buying from them.

 

Wow - that look fantastic.

 

Thanks, I'm quite pleased with the look (I believe you may have had something to do with it too, yes?)

 

Yes I design them, Todd makes it happen.

 

It's pretty easy to take the grill off. I have a new badge holder. No badges yet. The're on the way to Holland!

10 minutes, you have the grill of and the badge mounted.

Front:


Back:


Result:


Can't wait for the badges to show up!!

 

I have an non s cooper. The grill is totally different.

 

Yes - they will have one version that fits both.

 

I have a 2007 MC and bought a cravin speed grill badge holder. Then went to menards and bought 2 in stainless steel machine screws. It was tricky and there is not alot of space to work but i got it on. I bought two of thease grill badge holders and now i want to sell one of them. i payed 15.00 bucks for it. i will sell for 14.00 never opened. I will also include the longer screws. pm me if interested.

 

Yes, it does look fantastic. I tried fitting my old holder to my R56 grill the other night. Didn't think to trim the protective tubing....

Will try again on the weekend. You're right though, it is really tight behind there and I have small hands.

How easy is it to remove the grill?

--steve

 

Well, I finally go around to installing my grill badge holder on my 07 MCS:



http://www.cymru66.com/mini/welsh-dr...rille-badge-2/

In the end I trimmed the protective tubing away (same as mcarlo52), left off the original backing bracket and used a couple of spring washers and wing nuts to tighten things up. Space behind the grill is very limited and I didn't want to mess around with removing it. The wing nuts made things so easy.

I also found somewhere to store my collection of grill badges. They fit perfectly (well, almost) in one of the front cup holders. Just be careful you don't push them all the way to the bottom like I did. Mine got stuck and I had to use a plastic suction hook to remove them!

 

very cool. I just got my badges and holder... just waiting for my r56.. i'm hoping sometime next week or so.

 

Looks good. Are the badges just slightly too big or too small? If they sort-of fit I might use some of the badge decals as a cup holder liner, without sticking them down in case I want to change.

 

Slightly too big for the bottom of the cup holder. I placed 5 in my mine. I could get 2 out, but the bottom 3 were wedged in pretty tight. Now I have a thin circular disc at the bottom that the badges sit on.

Your idea is a good one....they actually look very nice in the holders.

 

Cool, now I've got to figure out which ones to start with?

 

The old style badge holder worked for me too. Though from the looks of it, I put it on the wrong side Here's my collection so far (my favorites are the Welsh Dragon and the Shamrock):

 

I'm amazed you could get your hands back there on that side. Unless you took off the grill, if so nevermind. The dragon looks awesome, looks like that will be part of my next batch.

 

Thanks! It helps to have girl hands After tinkering around with it on the car, I finally figured out how to pull the grill off and it was easy after that.

 

It was more like finger tips tightening the wing nuts, than getting you're whole hands behind there. I couldn't figure out how to get the grill off easily. How did you do it?