Member Since: 31 Mar 2016
Location: Gateshead
Posts: 234
Sill surgery ahead
Dammit - looks like I have some large bils ahead
Wasn't expecting this when I removed the sill covers.
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7th Jan 2023 3:44 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
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Yikes!
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7th Jan 2023 3:52 pm
oldskoolskater
Member Since: 31 Mar 2016
Location: Gateshead
Posts: 234
Nope, no side steps.
It'll be going into a garage somewhere to get fixed - wonder if it'll be a full length sill replacement job using the below or similar:
LR064258 - LAND ROVER PANEL - BODY SIDE
Hope not as I'm far from being loaded at present!
7th Jan 2023 3:56 pm
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 4446
They are getting to that age. Still, it's a 15 year old car now, so I guess it's fulfilled its 10 year requirement.
I'd recommend everyone to take the plastics off every once in a while to clean the mud out, and wax the sills inside and out.Richard
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7th Jan 2023 4:16 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6642
oldskoolskater wrote:
Nope, no side steps.
It'll be going into a garage somewhere to get fixed - wonder if it'll be a full length sill replacement job using the below or similar:
LR064258 - LAND ROVER PANEL - BODY SIDE
Hope not as I'm far from being loaded at present!
From what I’ve seen, people tend to cut way the bad parts and put in new sheets instead. IDK I’d anyone has really put in the whole side. Britpart has the whole long sill, DA1941/DA1942, that many seem to have used. I guess the rear is manufactured by the metal shop doing the welding.
7th Jan 2023 8:01 pm
Lrstaylor
Member Since: 04 Oct 2018
Location: Kent
Posts: 600
I learnt to weld on my 1st few cars they all needed doing back then rebuilt a mini 850 new floor etc. Then the vauxhaul that was a rot box. The escort well if I still had that it would be a 30k car by now my capri 280 rotted out its front shock mounts and chassis so I scrapped it
I will be pulling the plastics off our to to us V8 in the spring to see how deep the surface rust goes.......havnt used my welder in a couple of years I wonder ?
7th Jan 2023 8:37 pm
A.J.M
Member Since: 31 Oct 2009
Location: Carluke
Posts: 2823
Mine looks like that.
Along with large spots along the sills where the side steps once sat.
Mine will be full side sill replacements.
Have a specialist up for the welding, they also have a couple of options for painting the car afterwards.
Will be reassuringly expensive.
7th Jan 2023 10:09 pm
zig
Member Since: 09 Sep 2005
Location: Scotland
Posts: 632
A.J.M - I would be interested in knowing who in Central Scotland you would get to do the job.
8th Jan 2023 5:25 pm
A.J.M
Member Since: 31 Oct 2009
Location: Carluke
Posts: 2823
Engine 710 in south queensferry will take it on.
Have shown them pictures of the car and a quick video of the rusty sills and arches.
Obviously I don’t know the state of the inners till they start cutting the outers off but they are happy to take it on when the time comes.
Then it’s over to one of the painters they use to get the exterior and the welded sections painted.
8th Jan 2023 6:05 pm
zig
Member Since: 09 Sep 2005
Location: Scotland
Posts: 632
A.J.M - thanks for advising that you have got Engine 710 in South Queensferry lined up to do the sills on your vehicle.
As a result of an Engine 710 leaflet being put through my door a while back, I had previously identified them as a Land Rover specialist in the vicinity of Edinburgh that could do the sill on my vehicle if and when the time comes. However, fortunately my vehicle came through its last MOT in September with no advisories.
As a comment I only realised where the 710 in their name came from when I viewed their leaflet upside down on a table.
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