90 Doors (well 3, you know what I mean)

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ComradeHaz

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OK, I've read the first 50 pages (I think it was) of the Defender forum and run some searches and not found anything, but sorry if this has already been covered...
Basically my 90 (late 200tdi (L)) needs 3 new doors; everytime I close them another lump of rust drops out and indeed the passenger side one has just about fallen off!!
Here're the questions;
1. New doors or try to find some secondhand? (I've tried but they all seem to be almost as crap as mine, so to be honest, thinking new.)
2. Genuine or pattern? Either way, where from?
3. Original doors or from later model? (Do they fit? Is there any advantage?)

Cheers for any feedback y'all!!
Tom
 
yes TD5 doors will fit.
you can get bargains from flea-bay if yer patient and lucky.
last year, I got a pair from an 06 plate TD5, complete with leccy windows, fer 150 notes. they're now looking good on me 93 200TDi 90.
 
yes TD5 doors will fit.
you can get bargains from flea-bay if yer patient and lucky.
last year, I got a pair from an 06 plate TD5, complete with leccy windows, fer 150 notes. they're now looking good on me 93 200TDi 90.

OK, cool but is there any real advantage?! Are they more rigid or better in any other way other than electromagic windows? What about the rear door? Same shape/lock position? and again is there an advantage to going for a later door over the original part number? again if I can't find a second hand one are pattern, from for example paddock, worth the metal they're made from?!
Tom
 
There all much of a muchness cost is your deciding factor here. get the cheapest you can that are in good condition and waxoyles em when you fit em. and they'll outlast the rest of the landy.
 
Or alternatively go for earlier doors - the two part kind. Bottoms are about 45 quids (new pattern part), tops vary but try and get the solid aluminium military ones.

No window winding mechanism to break, solid-as-a-rock handles and locks, and if the bottom rusts out again, just get another bottom.

see my recently artistically completed artistic impression of my artistic project to see how these artistic doors look on a later landy...

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