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Sep 8, 20201 min read

Mega Mini Madness

Our Mega Mini conversions are now available as a drive in drive out conversion for the R55, R56, R57, R58 & R59 chassis, so as long as you own one of these models, our conversion is available, from the Cooper Diesel upto the Cooper S, let’s look at what you get for your money.


For our drive in drive out the conversions consists of the following:

 
 

Full window tint (with the choice of privacy shades ) Full De-Chrome VAD Wider flares fitted and painted A choice of wheel & tyre combo 9x16 > 245/45R16 / 9x17 > 245/40R17 / 9x18 > 245/35R18 Coilover Suspension

 


 

We will be adding other additional parts to the conversion with lots of options coming for the not only the exterior but the interior too.


As long as you have the above Chassis get in touch with us if you fancy adding a bit of sauce to your Mini, with our mega mini makeover.


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Writer's pictureVAD Admin
Feb 5, 20202 min read

EvoCorse Sanremo Zero

Since the launch of our R56, R57, R58 & R59 extended 25 mm and 35 mm wheel arch flares in 2018 we have been on the lookout for a 1 piece cast wheel that would be a suitable width and offset without the use of spacers, sounds easy right, but it’s been a painstakingly frustrating search speaking to various wholesalers and manufactures far and wide, we came across a lovely wheel design from a compnay in Germany, but we had to order 48 wheels on order pay up front and wait 4 months, as nice as the wheel was a four month lead time sounded very much like it was sourced and manufactured in China, so it was back to the drawing board, Klutch wheels have a beautiful design, but limited stock was a problem, we source and supply AME Shallen wheels but customers do not want 2 piece wheels due to the high cost restraints of multipice wheels.


With options limited we spoke to various UK 1 piece cast wheel specialists, to say that was a bit of a waste of time is an understatement, every wheel we liked was overpriced and Chinese produced, which seems to be the normal UK practise with 1 piece cast wheel designs, but that all changed on our visit to the Performance Car Show at the NEC in Birmingham on trade day... enter the Italian wheel manufacturing maestros EvoCorse.

 
 

We are thrilled to of now sourced the perfect light weight 1 piece cast wheel for our Mini conversion, but also teaming up with the legendary company like EvoCorse, offering a super high quality wheel now available to our customers, which we can now offer globally.


So why have we had such a headache trying to find a wheel that works with our extended fender mini conversions, the main reason is the width of wheel as well as the required offset to suit, as the one thing we do not want is to fit spacers, so we need a 9x17 with a +10 to +15 offset and although one piece wheels are the most popular withing the wheel industry the width and offset we need in our 4x100 PCD just doesn’t exist, but thanks to EvoCorse, they have made our dream a reality.

 
 

The EvoCorse Sanremo Zero wheel is a 12 spoke design with a concave profile, which is available in our desired 9” width and a selection of offsets from +6 to +48 so is the perfect wheel to fine tune the offsets we need front to rear for our conversion, weight of the wheels is 9 to 9.5 KG depending on the offset chosen, the standard colours are White and Black, with Silver, Anthracite and Gold also available on request.

All of our Mini builds will be fitted exclusively with the EvoCorse wheel design and be wrapped in Nankang 255/40R17 NS2R, our tyre partner for various conversions we offer, get in touch with us for further details on our awesome Mini products


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Writer's pictureVAD Admin
Sep 24, 20192 min read

VAD R56 Mini Flares.


We have been discussing putting our own daily driver R56 Mini's together for a while now, so we thought it was about time we got searching for the right base car, with a Diesel very high on the list, mainly due to its 60+ MPG return as well as the ridiculously cheap £20 road tax a year makes it a very appealing car to daily around whist showing off the product we manufacture and sell for these little bundles of joy.

The first thing we have had to do is get in search mode for the right base model Cooper D and we didn’t just get one pop up, we managed to get two, both great colours with great spec,. We now have in the fleet an 07 pastel blue, with a white roof and mirrors, and a beautiful cream R56 07 plate with matching half leather interior, panoramic roof and every electric option you can think of.

The first job will be to paint the flares ready for fitting and then fitted with our choice of wheel, as our own dedicated flow-form wheel is ready yet and won’t be for a while we have been scouring the market for a 9” wheel in either 16” or 17” size with 3SDM coming to the rescue with their 5.0 design in 9x16 and our desired offset, its a great looking wheel and come with a huge concave profile, so will suit the look of the build to perfection, a white set will adorn the blue Mini and a black set will be fitted to the cream both fitted with 245/45R16 tyres front and rear

We look forward to showing you the finished versions over the next few weeks as they take shape.

VAD R56 Mini flares, also fit the R55, R57 & R58 chassis


 

Our wheels of choice will be the 3SDM 5.0 9X16, with its deep concave profiled face and low offset, itst he perfect wheel design for the look we are after.

 

9X16 3SDM 0.05

Each car will be de-chromed and have the windows tinted by our good friends over at 1st Choice Tints, who has the task of getting rid of all that chrome bling around the windows, lights, grill and boot lid , we cant wait to bring you the transformation.




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