Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side

Selling off one (or bits :o) of your XM collection, or perhaps searching for those elusive headlight washer covers? This is the place to do it.
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Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side

Post by josh2109 » Mon Jun 09, 2025 9:42 am

Hi all,

I’m after the piece of trim that lives here:

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Mine departed during some recent motorway testing.

A green cover would be ideal, but any colour will do as I am happy to paint it.

Cheers,
Josh
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Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side

Post by Julianw » Mon Jun 09, 2025 11:38 am

Another reason I'm tempted to get into the 3D printing malarkey - these are all now rather brittle bits of plastic! I'll check my stash when I get to the back of my garage. In the meantime, good luck securing one

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Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side

Post by Southerneruk » Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:49 am

I have a 3d printer, not used at the moment, just not had time to study the build program as yet, but it can be plugged into the internet for a peer to peer use, so if anyone else as the knowledge to be able to operate it over the internet, you are well come to use it

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Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side

Post by josh2109 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:55 pm

Thanks folks, I’ve now got a replacement here with me.

RE 3d printing: I have a 3d printer, but the time and effort it would take to model this panel from scratch would’ve been too much in my opinion, at least when a replacement was under £20 shipped!
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Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side

Post by Southerneruk » Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:43 am

That's why I am thinking about getting 3D scanner for the printer, it will cut out all that hassle

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Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side

Post by josh2109 » Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:35 am

From what I’ve seen in terms of consumer level equipment, the scans will still need a lot of clean up and re-working to get a useable model.

It would be interesting to see if it’s faster to work from a scan that needs refining, or using reference images to create a sketch.

Either way, on cheap items I’m unsure that it’s worth it. For things like the sidelights though, the time and effort could be worthwhile.
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