Hmmm, finally I got around to prodding my rangie with a pointy stick. Out with the steamer and clean all the crap off the arches ready. AARRGH wheres me inner wings gone?
Wings off, sorry sight.
Hmmm, just cut the rot out the floorpan and weld in some new steel...
Wonder what its like on the other side...
Looking further round the car, it needs both inner and outer sills both sides, a significant repair to the rear floor by the seats, new rear inner wings, new A pillars both sides, new floor both sides at the front, new footwells, bulkhead repairs, new A panels, new inner wings and new headlight boxes.
Grand total of just under a grand in repair panels, oh and new rear crossmember needed too. Which is a body off job.
Now I was just about to send mrs f off the metal shoppie for a 3x3M sheet of steel to build a new car from piece by piece when she says to me "why not spend a few thousand and buy yourself a better car, and use the engine out of this in your kitcar"...
What a absolutely sterling idea, think its a newer v8 defender time
Bye bye rangie. Hello snorty v8 kitcar...
Next time someone pops round asking for a "bit of welding" to get a rangie through the MOT, you are forewarned where itll be bad, "they all do this mister"
Wings off, sorry sight.
Hmmm, just cut the rot out the floorpan and weld in some new steel...
Wonder what its like on the other side...
Looking further round the car, it needs both inner and outer sills both sides, a significant repair to the rear floor by the seats, new rear inner wings, new A pillars both sides, new floor both sides at the front, new footwells, bulkhead repairs, new A panels, new inner wings and new headlight boxes.
Grand total of just under a grand in repair panels, oh and new rear crossmember needed too. Which is a body off job.
Now I was just about to send mrs f off the metal shoppie for a 3x3M sheet of steel to build a new car from piece by piece when she says to me "why not spend a few thousand and buy yourself a better car, and use the engine out of this in your kitcar"...
What a absolutely sterling idea, think its a newer v8 defender time
Bye bye rangie. Hello snorty v8 kitcar...
Next time someone pops round asking for a "bit of welding" to get a rangie through the MOT, you are forewarned where itll be bad, "they all do this mister"