Hello from the Isle of Man

Manxnavigator · Mar 7, 2019

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

dieseldog69 · Mar 7, 2019

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

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

Shimsteriom · Mar 7, 2019

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

Shimsteriom · Mar 7, 2019

@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!

Manxnavigator · Mar 8, 2019

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!

Hippo · Mar 8, 2019

Welcome to the forum

RangeRoller dt · Mar 10, 2019

17yrs! Come in and put your feet up

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