Can you do a roll cage for a marshall body ambulance?
you need 4 rocks sliders up each side
you need 4 rocks sliders up each side
If you want to corner an emerging market, there isn't much in the way of cheaper off-road toys for Disco 3's and 4's yet - the obvious stuff being under body protection - paid a fortune just for a sump guard on mine. Swing away rear spare carriers for the D3 are also only available from Australia I believe, so, another good market opportunity there - starting to see a lot more being used off-road.
micknkatenki
Active Member
With option to fit rear winch.
micknkatenki
Active Member
Can you do a roll cage for a marshall body ambulance?
External roll cage for defender 90 van, at a better price than on offer now.
Pumpy
Active Member
Detachable towbar for Defender, check out the extreme 4x4 system, it's a great system but very pricy for what it is.
Detachable towbar for Defender designed to fit to a NATO hitch so the ball is standard height, seen a few made by individuals but nothing on the market.
Course you might have to get into type approval for post 98 vehicle towbars, which is no doubt a maze of redtapedom and high expense.
Roll cages that double as a roofrack/tent platform, maybe optional exterior fittings for spare wheels/ladder/jerry cans/spades/waffle boards etc. A kit would be good with all the tubes bent and ends milled so they're easy to weld together by the customer.
Detachable towbar for Defender designed to fit to a NATO hitch so the ball is standard height, seen a few made by individuals but nothing on the market.
Course you might have to get into type approval for post 98 vehicle towbars, which is no doubt a maze of redtapedom and high expense.
Roll cages that double as a roofrack/tent platform, maybe optional exterior fittings for spare wheels/ladder/jerry cans/spades/waffle boards etc. A kit would be good with all the tubes bent and ends milled so they're easy to weld together by the customer.
warrior
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I got priced £600 to make one from a place in Halifax and that was fitted but not painted.
There's. few around I have a mib one but it a crap fit wouldn't recomend one
Pumpy
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Thanks chaps, I've looked long and hard at them, Jai LR has a good thread on the one he made which looks the business, but I've decided to go with the Extreme 4x4 kit, mount the electrics in the TD5 x-member with a short extension to the detachable drop plate, and leave the NATO hook on for recoveries. I don't know if I want a rear winch, but at least I have an easy option with this system if I do decide to have one, could wire it to my jump-lead socket so it'd be an easy swap.
300tdistu
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Not alot of money making bumpers/off road parts anymore. The last year has been terrible Iv started doing more welding on mot fails
chrisyleigh
Active Member
AFFORDABLE rear storage for a discovery 1 , maybe storage just to replace rear seats , everything pritty mich already being done so its a case off making better ones or making them cheaper , rear door storage panels for a disco
Dr_evil
Banned
rear winch bumper
I make them with swing away wheel carriers too
very true, and the other problem is Ive got £250k + invested in machinery to make professional grade stuff to try and compete with China junk, When you asked to make x you need to make tooling do drawings for laser cutting , different size die for the pipe bender costs anywhere between £600 to £1500 etc etc etc thats why I only make x members now
I make 4x the hourly rate doing sub con engineering
Anything less than a cnc mandrel bender will be to slow and lack reputability to make production or mail order cages.
What machinery do you own?Not trying to put you off , just make sure you have other contracts to keep machinery busy as bolt on stuff wont pay the bills as the market is swamped
