Defender door cards

[lightning]

I need a pair of door cards for the rear doors of my 110 TD5 as many of the securing clips are broken (not by me) and although they are not going to fall off, they are both loose.

From LR they are an absurd £150 each. Britpart sell copies for £60....can anybody tell me if they are any good?

In the past l have bought Britpart trim items and they have been great.

But l don't want to spend £120 and then have to send them back.....

 

[bankz5152]

Black screws. I put one in a few corners, don't notice them but door cards are secure and cost me 60p not £60. I chose where I wanted to put the screws through, then drilled small holes into the door frame, pushed some plastic plugs in the screwed into that. Does the job nicely.

 

[lightning]

I did think of that, one screw in each lower corner would do it.
But l didn't want to drill the doors if possible.
I guess you could use number plate screw covers to hide the screw heads.

 

[Tim4x4]

You can screw from the back of the door card with small short screws.
The heads will have to be of an appropriate size to allow the fir tree's to engage but I have repaired about 15 of my fixings in this way.
Sorry without taking a door card off I do not know the size of screw but all I did was go to B&Q taking a fir tree with me and tried various self tapping screws until I found a fit.

 

[Al2O3]

Have your white discs on the actual card snapped? Usually, it's the black fir trees pictured in Tim4x4's post above. Lots of my black fir trees have snapped. I wonder if you can get the white inserts that are bonded on to the door card?

 

[Tim4x4]

Have your white discs on the actual card snapped? Usually, it's the black fir trees pictured in Tim4x4's post above. Lots of my black fir trees have snapped. I wonder if you can get the white inserts that are bonded on to the door card?

I was unsuccessful in my hunt for the inserts you refer to, as a repair I replaced them with screws.
I will give a little more detail.
Having found at B&Q the shortest screws they had in which the head of the screw was able to locate in the fir tree slot just where the white inserts locate.
I then measured the core diameter of the screw (that's the centre portion not including the thread), this is the size of hole I am now going to drill into the back of the door card.
I am drilling this hole as deep as I can without breaking out the other side (this will ensure the screw remains unseen when the door card is fitted).
The hole size is allowing the self tapping screw to cut a thread into the door card material.
The screws I am grinding a little off the length of the thread because I do not want them to push through to the other side of the door card.
Now for fitting the screws into the door card I am using a small amount of adhesive (I used Locktite all purpose extra strong adhesive).
Screwing them into the door card until the fir tree will just slip on with a little pressure.
Give it a little while for the adhesive to set and Robert's your mothers brother.
I must have done this to around 15 of the fixings on the 4 door cards (not 15 on each card) and have taken the door cards off a number of times since it works perfectly and totally an invisible repair.