Nerdos · Apr 16, 2012

Like the British banking system my doors look fine on the outside but beneath the veneer of respectability are a rotten to the core. Having saved up for a year I'm now having them all replaced as well as other areas of bimetallic corrosion fixed. It's also having a respray and a general light tart-up. This isn't a request for help - I just thought a few people might be interested in the before and after photos. Here are the befores. I'll post the afters in a couple of weeks when I get it back. Hoping I won't have to sell a kidney to fund any overspend.
Why am I not doing it all myself with a roller and 5l of Nato green paint from Anchor Supplies? Because I don't want to.

DerekT · Apr 16, 2012

In the same boat here, bought a 110 as a project, now mechanically sound and going well, but as for the bodywork, much as yourself. Need new doors all round as even the steel frames are shot, and of course the bodywork needs total re-spray. Will be interested to watch your progress and see the pics. Good luck!

Nerdos · Apr 19, 2012

A little update. The garage sent me this picture to satisfy my curiosity. I assume this level of dismantling is the norm as a preparation for respraying. In any case it seems they are taking very thorough approach - much more diligent than I would be anyhow.

DerekT · Apr 19, 2012

Wow, looks pretty thorough! Look forward to seeing the end result, but interim piccies also welcome! Is this a fixed price job? or an open cheque?!

Nerdos · Apr 19, 2012

It's a 'it'll cost about £x' sort of arrangement. They've never done screwed me on price before so I'm trusting them not to this time.

wack61 · Apr 19, 2012

That looks expensive, I've never seen a respray go that far, are they doing it one panel at a time.

What was the about figure they quoted.

Dr_evil · Apr 19, 2012

wack61 said:
That looks expensive, I've never seen a respray go that far, are they doing it one panel at a time.

What was the about figure they quoted.

I presume the doors will want blasting and welding though

Station House · Apr 19, 2012

The more you dismantle the better the finish, but TBH you can achieve a good result by doing much less

benpalmer · Apr 19, 2012

Wow never seen a spray shop strip that much out before, that will be a good job!

Are they a LR specialist?

Nerdos · Apr 19, 2012

The indicative price for 4 new doors, new locks, full respray and sorting corrosion on the panels that are not being replaced was £2,500 to £3,000. However, I've added to that fitting new side steps, swapping tyres with new wheels supplied by me, rear NAS lights, service and MoT.

The garage only does Landies and they do the dismantling but the actual painting is carried out by another business in an adjacent unit. Readers of LRO might know them as they guys who recently refurbed a Series III carawagon.

The replacement doors are brand new aftermarket units that are delivered powdercoated so I guess they'll require a light rub down and they'll be good to go.

danchapman2k2 · Apr 19, 2012

Good luck with it - it looks very thorough job there going to do!

DerekT · Apr 19, 2012

Should be quite a motor when its finished!!!

wack61 · Apr 19, 2012

Nerdos said:
The indicative price for 4 new doors, new locks, full respray and sorting corrosion on the panels that are not being replaced was £2,500 to £3,000. However, I've added to that fitting new side steps, swapping tyres with new wheels supplied by me, rear NAS lights, service and MOT

Is that + VAT

I bought some good used front doors for £300 , I'm not going anywhere near as far as you but I'm hoping to do the 90 for £600-700 In total

When it's finished we'll have to compare

I'm guessing yours will be better but I can see that bill climbing, unless your minted id want a definite price before i started adding things on, you might end up spending more than its worth

I assume the chassis is very good / new

Nerdos · Apr 20, 2012

I assume it's inclusive of VAT. All their previous indications have been and an extra £600 would sour the experience a bit.

I did look at second hand doors and all the good ones were, to put it politely, of uncertain origin. I'm not saying yours are but those I saw on ebay that I liked made me think I'd be perpetuating demand for stolen parts if I were to buy them so I opted for new. I did once buy a set of second hand push-button doors for my 100". They cost £300 and being naive I didn't even think to check the bottoms of them. They were pretty knackered and I sold them on at a loss to someone who was able to fix them.

Chassis: not new but no holes in it despite having spent much of its life on the salty Isle of Man.

Not minted, just naive/trusting. If there's ****-taking to be done when the bill comes I'll take it like a man.

Big green snail · Apr 20, 2012

Can I join the 110-set-of-doors-club? You've just reminded me about what I was trying to forget!! If memory serves after market doors are about £250 a piece, plus cost of spraying, plus cost of the bits that are damaged or missing when swapping all the gubbins over.
They look to be doing metal replacement, rather than loads of filler. Cappings off too I see. I will look forward to see the results.

Dave90 · Apr 20, 2012

Me and my dad went this far with my 90, but we saved labour cost's by doing it ourselves, by no means a perfect finish, but I've yet to see a perfect Land Rover

richfish1 · Apr 20, 2012

She'll be a corker when finished! I'm surprised you've struggled to find good second hand doors though. I'm sure someone on here would have some. Or a local landy breaker, the breaker near to me nearly always has some good ones.

Nerdos · Apr 20, 2012

It might be paranoia abouit the provenance of used parts that leads me towards new. When I was 21 I was picked up by the old bill for what turned out to be stolen side panels on my Honda 400/Four. Even though I hadn't nicked them and obtained them in good faith that didn't stop me spending an afternoon in the cells and that, frankly, scared the sh!t out of me and of course gave me a police record for the next however-many years. So, I'm the cautious type.

Nerdos · Sep 19, 2012

I know this is a very late follow up to the original thread but here are pictures of the finished article. Colour is some kind of Jaguar black metallic. Cost to supply and fit doors, dismantle, respray, replace rear quarter panels, fix holes in body behind fuel filler and one of the B-pillars, replace headlights (Wipac quadoptic) and other items (Wipac NAS), swap over wheels, fit steps and so on and so forth was £3,500. Please note that I supplied the alloys and steps myself and the cost of these items is not included in the price above. Took a fair while longer than the original estimate of time but it's nice to have it bacl

90TD5 · Sep 19, 2012

Wow.

Lovely.

Can see you hit the same hurdle maybe as I did on the drivers side rear NAS lights. Swing lamp guard wont close when they're on. Is one or t'other! :doh:

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