Freelander 1 tailgate handle cover.

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Sarge584

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Hi all, does anyone have a secondhand tailgate handle cover for a reasonable price. Looked on Ebay and the price for one is ridiculous.
Thank you.
 

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Amen to that brother:
Jayridium said:
As part of my winter preparations I decided to replace the ropey perished and split door handle gasket, and because the seal had failed the nuts were rusted to the studs, but living in Scotland I'm no stranger to rusted fastners, yet I still managed to snap a couple of the studs from their plastic. Initially I thought, not a problem, I'll buy a new one, if I order it sharpish I'll have it for the weekend...

...Then I seen the (list) price...
£270
Yup, you read that right... Two Hundred and Seventy Pounds...

Really?

Like; Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??

What is the damned thing made of? Tusks of an exotic variant of Heffalump? Some interstellar paste comprising of dark matter suspended in a glue of melted down Extra-Terrestrial beings toenail clippings? Distilled ink pigment from an extinct subspecies of octopus?

I'm guessing that given how brittle they are, it must be the tusks, but none of those options wouldn't warrant a £270 list price for a stupid lump of plastic. Sure, you can get the lookie likey ones for a third of that price, and even the allegedly genuine ones but still, £90 for a silly little lump of plastic?

Had it been half of that, as in the £90 = £45, my debit card would be a little bit bruised and my freelander feeling a bit pampered, but no, £40 gets you a fecked up used one covered in green slime, lemme think abou.... NAW!!!

So yeah, I'm spitting bullets, and I'll do some jiggery-pokery with some M6 nuts, bolts, washers and 2 part epoxy paste nae doubt making for an abotchination of a thing, that thankfully will be hidden on the inside/underside of the handle.
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I'll go and dig out some photos of how I repaired that one...
 
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Basically, where the studs that are moulded into the housing have ripped themselves out, I've done a bit of judicious carving with a dremel and a carbide burr. I then used m6 bolts with nyloc nuts and washers to bite onto a flat surface, then built it up with epoxy paste, but even cataloy or fibreglass paste would do. When fitting it to the vehicle, IIRC I used normal nuts with a low strength thread lock on the threads of those bolts in the photos that I've bastardised into being captive studs.
 
Thanks Jay, but my one had been bodged by the previous owner and now has split in half.See picture attached.
 

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Sarge584 said:
Thanks Jay, but my one had been bodged by the previous owner and now has split in half.See picture attached.
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Ring around your local scrappers and mention you'll take a broken one (bolts pulled out). There's bound to be plenty about that can be fixed the way Jayridium suggested, I've fixed three or four in the same way.
 
Thanks Alibro, done that. Scrappies either don't have them or just don't get back. Same as those on Ebay that are breaking.
 
Thanks Nodge, gone for it off Ebay. £95 is better than some of the other prices. And as Andy said £72 for a rusted one is a lesser option.
 
Here's the one I purchased Ebay for £95. Quality is as good as the original.
 

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It looks like it's using stainless steel for the mounting columns, and the screws look to be SS too.
If that's the case, it's better than the OE part.
 
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