Help with my bent rear door

Yesterday my son took my 90 for a drive round he paddock, he ended up reversing into a gate post. from what i see i can either replace the door - so if anyone has recommendations for where to buy - or i bash it out?

Check out LR parts for spares. If the frame of the door is not to bad and fixable new skins are available.

That is class - just wear it as a battle scar, the inside is worse. Get a bit of 3x2 and a rubber mallet and knock the skin out job done.

DoH !
No pocket money for him this week and he's buying you a new door for xmas ....

ive just taken the door card off and its as rotten as an old pear - so its going to have to be replaced i think

As long as the spars okay as mentioned just warm up the panel and beat back. I suspect your lad didn't drive at full pelt from the image.

it was more of a roll down the hill and panic sort of moment...

robbiemcvee said:

ive just taken the door card off and its as rotten as an old pear - so its going to have to be replaced i think

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You sound surprised

You did explain to you son…
You bend it,you mend it? This is a good way for them to learn spanners & hammers.

you can get replacement parts for the door frames. You just need to weld in

oh yeah - im sure he'll lend a hand, he's a good lad really - poor driver though ;-)

Looks like it's got a spare wheel pattern to the dent!
If the steel bars inside were ok the skin would probably knock out ok. I've had all three of mine off the frames. If the frame is a bit rotten then you could weld new bits of frame in. If it's very rotten then it's a new door. If you're landy is a keeper I'd invest in a galvanised one.

Al2O3 said:

Looks like it's got a spare wheel pattern to the dent!
If the steel bars inside were ok the skin would probably knock out ok. I've had all three of mine off the frames. If the frame is a bit rotten then you could weld new bits of frame in. If it's very rotten then it's a new door. If you're landy is a keeper I'd invest in a galvanised one.

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Did the skin come off and go back on easy enough? I need to get new rear passenger doors, but I want to keep the skins as the decals are no longer available (and it’ll be cheaper!).

Love the land rover repair book in shot . Time you have messed about might aswell get a new one some decent second hand ones about

bluedog333 said:

Did the skin come off and go back on easy enough? I need to get new rear passenger doors, but I want to keep the skins as the decals are no longer available (and it’ll be cheaper!).

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Yes, they did surprisingly!
I bought a set of pry bars like these LINKY and used the small one to pry the edge of the skin up. I took the skin just over the 90 degrees so it would lift off. I think galv doors were very much in their infancy, if available at all. What I should have done was got the frames galvanised. What I did instead was get them plastic coated. I then filled them with dinitrol. The skins just sat back on and the edges folded over no bother. I had them painted in a paint shop after that. That was seven years ago, but the frames are going already

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I've been looking through my rebuild pictures and it's reminded me that the skins on my new doors were also glued on. The skins came away no bother though (They were Britpart mind!)
This is the adhesive being scraped off the skin.

Frame with industrial plastic coating.

Full of dinitrol

Skin back on

I should have galvanised the frames

Al2O3 said:

Yes, they did surprisingly!
I bought a set of pry bars like these LINKY and used the small one to pry the edge of the skin up. I took the skin just over the 90 degrees so it would lift off. I think galv doors were very much in their infancy, if available at all. What I should have done was got the frames galvanised. What I did instead was get them plastic coated. I then filled them with dinitrol. The skins just sat back on and the edges folded over no bother. I had them painted in a paint shop after that. That was seven years ago, but the frames are going already

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@bluedog333
I've been looking through my rebuild pictures and it's reminded me that the skins on my new doors were also glued on. The skins came away no bother though (They were Britpart mind!)
This is the adhesive being scraped off the skin.
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Frame with industrial plastic coating.
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Full of dinitrol
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Skin back on
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I should have galvanised the frames

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Cheers for the info chap! I’m going to get galvanised frames as a minimum requirement, I still may go down the fully galvanised frame and skin route, as the ally corrosion may be to far gone to stop, at least for one of my doors.
Good to know that the skin removal is very much doable!

bluedog333 said:

Cheers for the info chap! I’m going to get galvanised frames as a minimum requirement, I still may go down the fully galvanised frame and skin route, as the ally corrosion may be to far gone to stop, at least for one of my doors.
Good to know that the skin removal is very much doable!

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No bother mate. I should take mine off again and get the frames galvanised before they're too far gone. Good luck with yours

There's a guy in NI. That makes them. He's on here but I can't remember his name. Do a search on rear doors and his name will come up in one.

His name is ghound, in June when I posted the rear doors started from about 230 up to 300 if remember correctly !

Try a comapny that makes the doors and are located in Liverpool. Their name is SP panels or use www.sp-4x4.com. They do new doors in Ali or steel and galv frames too or for about £100 there are front door skins too.