Typical cost to repair inner wing

how much do you guys reacon it'll cost to repair O/S inner wing and battery tray on my disco

my welder charges £25 an hour?

how much is a year and a half?

discoboy84 said:

how much do you guys reacon it'll cost to repair O/S inner wing and battery tray on my disco

my welder charges £25 an hour?

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a bit more info might be uselfull

discoboy84 said:

how much do you guys reacon it'll cost to repair O/S inner wing and battery tray on my disco

my welder charges £25 an hour?

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Does depend on how much rust there is, do you want a replacement panel or a patch up job.

Last 'patch up job' I did, was about £150-ish a side for inner wings, battery box, footwell and around front lights.

After spending 2 months welding loads of rust on my disco and doing the inner wings, if I had to do it again, I would charge 300quid! lol

it cost me £40 for secondhand mig welder and £10 for sheet steel. i needed to do the inner wings on my vauxhall few years ago, with no experience at all. was good enough for mot. after a bit of practise my disco wings look quite good.

reckon £150 is a fair price for a decent job. i would expect £200 for a job like the one ive just done on mine.

tis a nice tidy job that is vivnap

[JP];930608 said:

After spending 2 months welding loads of rust on my disco and doing the inner wings, if I had to do it again, I would charge 300quid! lol

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found some a-pillar replacement bottoms .lower hinge area.Do you want?

Shed is clearer too...

easier to wack in new inners lagged with oil.

si844 said:

tis a nice tidy job that is vivnap

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thanks, dont like bodge jobs
this discovery has been given a right good going over, reckon its now one of the better ones
new inner and outer sills both sides, new boot floor every bit of rot i could find cut out and welded using new panels.

Sweet,
thought I'd done a tidy job but yours is much nicer

As for you discoboy, i reckon your best bet is to pick up a mig and get a new inner wing/battery tray panel - i got mine from YRM metal solutions on ebay, pretty cheap ( £60 ish) for both wings and went in with minimal trimming, only had to learn to puddle weld as well (yay !!)

i have a MIG (gasless crap) need some pratice and yes YRM is looking like the place for a whole inner wing, i need a battery tray too though

discoboy84 said:

i have a MIG (gasless crap)

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thats wot i got too, does the job tho - just. (easy to burn through metal as theres hardly any adjustment).
i'v patched up quite a few inner wings, battery trays, boot floors, and exhausts with mine.

vivnap said:

thanks, dont like bodge jobs
this discovery has been given a right good going over, reckon its now one of the better ones
new inner and outer sills both sides, new boot floor every bit of rot i could find cut out and welded using new panels.

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Hi vivnap, you've done some real quality work on that Disco, especially the front end battery tray area, very nice indeed. You must be pleased with that?

here is some info and pics....

thebiglad said:

Hi vivnap, you've done some real quality work on that Disco, especially the front end battery tray area, very nice indeed. You must be pleased with that?

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yea im pleased with it but if i was doing it inside a workshop i could have made a lot better job of it. i wont have a workshop untill later on next year when i get it built

working out doors isnt the ideal way to do repair work cos the british weather just isnt on your side