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sunbeamowner · Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 16 Location: Melbourne Australia

Guess where these came from ? Screwed straight on. No need to change the original thread.

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Alvin the Alpine · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 59 Location: Leicester

They are just chromed domed nuts...you can get them anywhere !

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sunbeamowner · Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 16 Location: Melbourne Australia

Alvin the Alpine wrote:

They are just chromed domed nuts...you can get them anywhere !

Maybe so but these ones came off an XJS Jag from a Jag wrecker for "Free".
How many Alpine owners can say that " I am using original Jag parts"
Also I have not seen these used on any Alpine in all of the hundreds of Alpine engine bay shots on the web.

dave baldwin · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 90 Location: Blackburn

I got mine from an auto jumble and were off an MGB sacralidge or what?

Nick Farrow · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject:

My car came with domed nuts on the rocker cover. I've yet to see a car with plain nuts!

Those ones look like they came from the 'rocker cover' on the XJS.

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Alvin the Alpine · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 59 Location: Leicester

All Alpines came with plain nuts... Domed nuts are an aftermarket look, not bad... but not factory spec.

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Nick Farrow · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:25 am Post subject:

I can understand why people change them....plain nuts would look a bit dull. Mine are a very strange size....no AF socket or metric socket quite fits. I might change them at some point, but it's not as if I need to undo them very often!

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Bill B · Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 22

Alvin the Alpine wrote:

All Alpines came with plain nuts... Domed nuts are an aftermarket look, not bad... but not factory spec.

Domed nuts make for a subtle integral finish, so much so that they would not look out of place. A detail enhancement that flatters beyond merely being "not bad".
The fact that it is not "factory spec" is a tedious detail that very very few would be bothered about.
I suspect that these days the number of club members who are concours/originality fanatics are few compared with the total club membership.
However thank goodness we do have those who seek originality if only to maintain a permanent record and bench mark of how the cars left the factory.
I well remember being pleased to exchange a slightly crude detail for more pleasing aesthetics when I fitted domed nuts to a concours winning 90%-as-left-the-factory Series 11.