L405 Fuel tank shield.

Still new fangled with my newest rangie ever a 2015 3 litre L405.
Of course I couldn't resist getting it up on the ramps and having a good old crawl around underneath and a poke at the rusty fuel tank shield revealed quite a lot of rot. Has anyone changed or repaired one? Looks like a pain....exhaust off.....prop shaft.... off. Any ideas/advice most welcome.
Pete

Spridget said:

Still new fangled with my newest rangie ever a 2015 3 litre L405.
Of course I couldn't resist getting it up on the ramps and having a good old crawl around underneath and a poke at the rusty fuel tank shield revealed quite a lot of rot. Has anyone changed or repaired one? Looks like a pain....exhaust off.....prop shaft.... off. Any ideas/advice most welcome.
Pete

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Sounds like you've made the plan of attack already. Welding patches maybe, folded version or a replacement. Scary to think it's rusted after nearly 8 yr

Spridget said:

Still new fangled with my newest rangie ever a 2015 3 litre L405.
Of course I couldn't resist getting it up on the ramps and having a good old crawl around underneath and a poke at the rusty fuel tank shield revealed quite a lot of rot. Has anyone changed or repaired one? Looks like a pain....exhaust off.....prop shaft.... off. Any ideas/advice most welcome.
Pete

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On our old L322 the tank guards are made of some weird carbon fibre type of stuff, absolute PITA to remove, even harder to put back on without a bit of modification. You might consider unbolting the 16 or so bolts and let the \shields\ drop down a little to access what is behind them. On ours it was a great surprise, they were complwetely rust free! Maybe we were lucky because the rest of the rear was a rust bucket which took a massive amount of work to put right.