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C5 Help => Tried & Tested : Share your good,or bad, experiences => Topic started by: danny7147 on 31, December, 2012 - 16:13:31
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I was a bit surprised to read about people having trouble obtaining boot locks. I needed one for mine, went to the local locksmith after measuring the hole, and £9 later came away with a barrel lock with bevelled cam. Fits perfectly, and for most locksmiths is a standard stock item... it keeps the boot shut too! So why does everyone else seem to have problems with this part??
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I was a bit surprised to read about people having trouble obtaining boot locks. I needed one for mine, went to the local locksmith after measuring the hole, and £9 later came away with a barrel lock with bevelled cam. Fits perfectly, and for most locksmiths is a standard stock item... it keeps the boot shut too! So why does everyone else seem to have problems with this part??
They have probably never thought of it. Your are ahead of everyone now ;) ;)
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The best solutions are usually the easiest lol :)
I bought a rear bicycle brake cable yesterday that works perfectly on the back brake of the C5... I'm still convinced that they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of having the indicator lenses specially made too... I'm still working on that one, but I'll bet that they're off of something obscure that nobody remembers...
I had to get a headlight and front indicator once for an old 80's coach(!) and it turned out they'd used one's from a Mk 3 Cortina, so I'm going to be looking at a lot of old car photos before I rush and buy a set lol!!
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I know a front indicator off of a Land Rover Defender looks the same as the front indicator on a C5.
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That would be another easy solution for a front indicator for a c5
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I know these 2 posts are off the subject but oh well it's some more advice ;) ;)
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Land Rover would make sense in a way, I also got told a Mk1 Mini...
Designers back then we're lazy, and even Lotus used some Ford parts so I'm going to look into this. Have you got the indicators on yours? Anyone know if the lenses have any markings on them at all?
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Previous posts said indicators were unmarked.
Landrover defender ones ad E marked (I used these for an IVA test on a car I built)
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It's interesting, from what I've read there are a lot of other indicators that fit the front, but none the back?? They've got an interesting shape but nobody's ever found a match?? Put this in perspective, an 80' s Lotus Esprit used door handles from a Morris Marina. Everything back then was dine the cheapest possible way and I honestly refuse to believe that (especially as he was a businessman!) Sir Clive didn't source a cheap supply for the lights instead of going to the expense of designing them from scratch ::)
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Mine has indicators. The land rover ones are marked but I don't think they are that noticeable.
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"Everything back then was dine the cheapest possible way"
I think the predictive text is playing up again on your kindle
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Yep, but on the plus side it hasn't said anything embarrassing yet... I'm just keeping my fingers crossed lol!
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I was a bit surprised to read about people having trouble obtaining boot locks. I needed one for mine, went to the local locksmith after measuring the hole, and £9 later came away with a barrel lock with bevelled cam. Fits perfectly, and for most locksmiths is a standard stock item... it keeps the boot shut too! So why does everyone else seem to have problems with this part??
some want to keep the Sinclair originality , hence the desire to find genuine boot locks
we've know about alternative locks for quite a while ;)
http://c5alive.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1275.msg10112.html#msg10112
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Hi there regarding the rear indicators I think you will find they where made for the C5 and You will not find them on any other vehicle ...
But please keep looking ...
Bye Chas
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Hi there regarding the rear indicators I think you will find they where made for the C5 and You will not find them on any other vehicle ...
But please keep looking ...
Bye Chas
It would be interesting if the rear indicators were on another vehicle. I doubt it though but it is worth looking
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The rear indicators are located right across a crease, in my opinion it's easier and cheaper to design an indicator to fit the C5 than design the C5 to fit an indicator.
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I'll take up that bet :P I know how lazy the motor industry was back then ::)
I can't guarantee overnight success, but I'll put a brand new 1 pence piece on the line and bet that they've been used on something... even if it's something nobody's thought of like a Honda C90... ???
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I believe they were made by Sinclair along with the front ones too (I think I've read somewhere that the Sinclair ones are lighter than the usual British Leyland items)
From what I've seen the Sinclair ones have no markings and BL ones would have to conform with various regulations.
Definitely not off a Honda Cub - I have one and they're completely different ;)
I can't guarantee overnight success, but I'll put a brand new 1 pence piece on the line and bet that they've been used on something... even if it's something nobody's thought of like a Honda C90... ???
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I use a cheap filing cabinet lock with some 3d printed plastic bits to make it fit the boot hole, they look great and cost about £4
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Hi danretropod 3 d printing ? Tell me more you selling the bootlocks ?
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Hi danretropod 3 d printing ? Tell me more you selling the bootlocks ?
Not selling them as a complete replacement, but if you want the 3d bits let me know. The lock is a cheap filing cabinet lock from ebay.