90 Doors (well 3, you know what I mean)

OK, I've read the first 50 pages (I think it was) of the Defender forum and run some searches and not found anything, but sorry if this has already been covered...
Basically my 90 (late 200tdi (L)) needs 3 new doors; everytime I close them another lump of rust drops out and indeed the passenger side one has just about fallen off!!
Here're the questions;
1. New doors or try to find some secondhand? (I've tried but they all seem to be almost as crap as mine, so to be honest, thinking new.)
2. Genuine or pattern? Either way, where from?
3. Original doors or from later model? (Do they fit? Is there any advantage?)

Cheers for any feedback y'all!!
Tom

have a look on ebay or get yourself to any of the 4x4 autojumbles happening this year, im sure you will find some doors in decent nick.

they are expensive though...see here

LR703L Front door - push button handle - LH from AA270227

If yer handy with a welder it wunt be that dificult to refabricate the frame an put a new skin on.

GRUNT said:

If yer handy with a welder it wunt be that dificult to refabricate the frame an put a new skin on.

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I ain't!

What about what doors to get? Any point getting doors off a TD5 for example? Are they any better and do they even fit?

yes TD5 doors will fit.
you can get bargains from flea-bay if yer patient and lucky.
last year, I got a pair from an 06 plate TD5, complete with leccy windows, fer 150 notes. they're now looking good on me 93 200TDi 90.

do you ever stop going on about your bargain doors? its like, atleast once a week!

G

yer only jealous!

i think the correct phrase is bored

got it in one

Treworgey 90 said:

yes TD5 doors will fit.
you can get bargains from flea-bay if yer patient and lucky.
last year, I got a pair from an 06 plate TD5, complete with leccy windows, fer 150 notes. they're now looking good on me 93 200TDi 90.

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OK, cool but is there any real advantage?! Are they more rigid or better in any other way other than electromagic windows? What about the rear door? Same shape/lock position? and again is there an advantage to going for a later door over the original part number? again if I can't find a second hand one are pattern, from for example paddock, worth the metal they're made from?!
Tom

There all much of a muchness cost is your deciding factor here. get the cheapest you can that are in good condition and waxoyles em when you fit em. and they'll outlast the rest of the landy.

Rot Free Defender Doors x2

2 front doors in blue. here you go:

G

Matching pair went on ebay yesterday needed a bit of welding but they weren't in bad nick £5.50 & £16.00

Or alternatively go for earlier doors - the two part kind. Bottoms are about 45 quids (new pattern part), tops vary but try and get the solid aluminium military ones.

No window winding mechanism to break, solid-as-a-rock handles and locks, and if the bottom rusts out again, just get another bottom.

see my recently artistically completed artistic impression of my artistic project to see how these artistic doors look on a later landy...