MALIBU GOLD REGISTER

M1474 · Postby **M1474** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:37 pm

Did they all come with the Malibu graphic?

Mine has black pin-striping I assumed was from factory.

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:50 pm

93_Clubman wrote:
thehillsarecalling wrote:I will get off an email to customer service later today, and post the response back here once it comes back.

In the interim, I'll find & PM you the contact details of someone I know who was at Mazda Aust (don't know if they're still there, or if they've moved into another part of the company) in case your request is declined or simply falls into the too hard basket.

Contact details PM'd to Hills.

Novice1 · Postby **Novice1** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 6:22 pm

Ihave uploaded newer pictures ofmy malibu, under title Ron,s Mx5 Yella.

Novice1

malibu Q · Postby **malibu Q** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:15 am

Hi, I have a Malibu in Hobart.
I would like to buy some original Malibu stripes and logos as well
some pix of mine which I've owned since 2002

M1474 · Postby **M1474** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:24 am

Nice, white wheels would set it off!

chuie · Postby **chuie** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:46 am

Keith wrote:SPOTTED IN THE LAST WEEK
1. a Malibu often parks on New Line Rd near Cherrybrook Public School.Last week when I was on my way to Mania, I saw the driver, a 30 something (?) blonde woman. Does anyone know this car?
2. the very next day, I saw a nice Malibu parked near Sutherland Railway Station. I left my name, number etc under the windscreen wiper but they didnt call. Anyone know of one in the Shire (apart from mine) .I have not seen this one before or since.

3. There are presently 3 Malibus for sale. One at Gawler in Adelaide, $5,300 looks good, one at Liverpool on Gumtree for $around $7500, and another one in Brisbane on Gumtree for $9,900 with 180,000 k's.

Haha this is a bit late but I was the one that parked in Sutherland that day. I tried texting the number you left, but I guess it didn't get through.

I live in Menai but I usually drive out of the Shire, which is why you probably haven't seen me since haha.

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:32 pm

malibu Q wrote:Hi, I have a Malibu in Hobart.
I would like to buy some original Malibu stripes and logos as well
some pix of mine which I've owned since 2002

Welcome - great looking Malibu!

thehillsarecalling · Postby **thehillsarecalling** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:03 pm

Hi All,

I have received an update from Mazda HQ regarding the Mailbu stickers;

Dear Ray

Thank you for your enquiry to Mazda Customer Support.

This was a factory decal and we will endeavour to find out if we can get hold of the pattern from Mazda Corporation.

We appreciate your patience in this matter and will provide further details when received.

So basically, it's a factory decal, and we're going to have to get someone to recreate. However, if we can get the original decal drawings / designs, this will make our collective Malibu lives much easier.

Will let you know when I receive anything further!

Ray

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:29 am

thehillsarecalling wrote:
This was a factory decal and we will endeavour to find out if we can get hold of the pattern from Mazda Corporation.

Interesting that Mazda's advice is they were 'factory'. Suggests the decal might have been intended for use in multiple markets.

thehillsarecalling · Postby **thehillsarecalling** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:48 am

Interesting that Mazda's advice is they were 'factory'. Suggests the decal might have been intended for use in multiple markets.

Dunno. Mazda support might have got it wrong. They took a few weeks to get back to me the first time around, so I guess we'll wait and see.

thehillsarecalling · Postby **thehillsarecalling** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:29 pm

Hi Everyone,

So, have just received this updated from Mazda Customer Support;

Dear Ray

We regret to advise we were unable to find the original supplier of this decal.

Our Marketing department have contacted all of the suppliers we are aware of, without success.

Thank you for your patience in this matter and apologise for not being unable to assist in this instance.

I have responded and asked if they have any drawings / templates etc that they gave to their suppliers which they can send through, so that we can organise our own suppliers. If they come back with a no, then we might have to reverse engineer someone's existing set of stickers. This may involve dropping the car down to a sticker shop to see what they can do.

Will keep everyone posted with customer support's reply.

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:38 am

thehillsarecalling wrote:This may involve dropping the car down to a sticker shop to see what they can do.

Ray, will PM you contact details of one of their suppliers in SE Melb, who were excellent to deal with & provided a top quality product.

malibu Q · Postby **malibu Q** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:24 pm

A good photo taken exactly square on would be good but what would be most useful is someone with the Malibu sticker to take a brass rubbing of it, scan it and post it up. This gives the only true representation of the shape as the wave part of the sticker passes through the body side groove
A scale drawn on the scan would be great so we could create an file for a laser cutter in scale. Probably a fair bit of time on Photoshop to clean up the edges to make them smooth but if you post it up I'll have a go. My vinyl man has successfully cut from black and white png files before

Novice1 · Postby **Novice1** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:55 pm

Will upload properly tomorrow.

My bumble-bee.

http://www.imageshack.com/i/nbsafoj

Novice1

thehillsarecalling · Postby **thehillsarecalling** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 11:08 am

Update from Mazda after my last email;

Ray,

We were unable to source the original images/sketches. If you have images of the decal you may be able to have them custom made.

Again we regret we are unable to assist further.

So looks like the brass rubbing / reverse engineered solution is going to be the go.