Hello from the Isle of Man

Hi my name is Phil and for tge last 17 years I have been driving my 3 door Freelander here she has on,y done 75k so is just about nicely run in! I do however have a question does anyone know if the roof bar alloy is weldable as I have a stress crack down the seam and am looking for a suitable solution to fix it!

many thanks

Manxnavigator said:

Hi my name is Phil and for tge last 17 years I have been driving my 3 door Freelander here she has on,y done 75k so is just about nicely run in! I do however have a question does anyone know if the roof bar alloy is weldable as I have a stress crack down the seam and am looking for a suitable solution to fix it!

many thanks

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Hi Phil, welcome to forum.

No idea, I would probably just leave it in situ and drill 3mm holes either end of the crack and then use a dremmel to clean out oxidized ally and then get some liquid metal in there to knit it all back together.

@Shimsteriom one of your mob has turned up, give the brother a hand

Oh god... anuvver one.....

@Manxnavigator if you post a question in here it'll get more relevant views and hopefully one of the Freelanderer owners might chip in with some advice.

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/forum/land-rover-freelander.9/

Oh, and watch out for some weird chap called @Hippo and stay out of Anything Goes unless you've seriously thick skin!

Thanks for the info, looks like a Dremmel job to clean out the crack and stop drill it, The advice from Landrover was to visit the local agent when I pointed out that local agents were hardly likely to know the spec. of an alloy the advice changed somewhat, hence the question and joining, its nice to be part of a community and even nicer nice to know that there are others on the Rock that appreciate the owing Landrover challenge, so thanks guys!

Welcome to the forum

17yrs! Come in and put your feet up