Need help with the checker plate

Hello all. New to all this. Just got a Defender 300 tdi ex national grid. what i would like to know is. 1. The best place to get checker plate. I need to block up the side small door flaps that the grid used to store there LPG tanks in. 2. Can i cut it myself or is it better to get some one to Lazar cut it. 3. what is the best way to fix it on the Landy.

Thanks in advance.

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oh and welcome to the nut house ..... we're all a bit fick in ere .....

Most metal stockists will sell you a sheet - try google or yell.com
You can cut it with a jigsaw fitted with a metal cutting blade, then clean up the edges with a file.
Fix it with 4mm pop rivets.

But, chequer plate is naff.

realise it's not the greatest stuff in the known universe but what else can i cover the little doors up with. They look like they are about to fall off any way. ?

ok no so no responses. was just driving down to devon in the 110 and waved at a 90 coming the other way on the a361 and the lass driving flashed me. only a defender would you be going slow enough to see. oh what a life.

cover em wiv plain ally sheet, then paint it ter match the rest of yer landy.
that'll look much betterer than fookin chequer plate.

Never wrestle with pigs - you'll get all muddy and the pigs will love it.