Wanted: Series 2/3 doors cheap!

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Ian Rawlings

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• May 3, 2005

• #1

Hello all, I need to replace my Defender doors within the next few
months but am unwilling to spend any money on proper Defender doors
as frankly they're rubbish.

Given that series doors fit and give me much more knee room and
significantly more elbow room and are less prone to being ****, I am
looking for a pair in decent condition. Craddocks etc want about 300
quid for a pair, which is frankly ludicrous, I'm looking more for
about 40 or so quid for each door. Are there any breakers or sellers
out there particularly in the south or south west of England that have
any available for reasonable prices?

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Nige

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• May 3, 2005

• #2

Ian Rawlings wrote:
> Hello all, I need to replace my Defender doors within the next few
> months but am unwilling to spend any money on proper Defender doors
> as frankly they're rubbish.
>
> Given that series doors fit and give me much more knee room and
> significantly more elbow room and are less prone to being ****, I am
> looking for a pair in decent condition. Craddocks etc want about 300
> quid for a pair, which is frankly ludicrous, I'm looking more for
> about 40 or so quid for each door. Are there any breakers or sellers
> out there particularly in the south or south west of England that have
> any available for reasonable prices?

Beamends do fully glazed door tops for around £28, bottoms are around the same & they are new matey.

Just need painting & off you go!

Nige

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Larry

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• May 3, 2005

• #3

Now that is a strange statement being as I am not enormosly enamored of my
series 3 doors and if I were going retro would want the series 1 variety if
anything. I would suspect most second hand series doors are as rotton as
mine are or worse, at least I have not tracked down any decent ones yet


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"Ian Rawlings" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hello all, I need to replace my Defender doors within the next few
> months but am unwilling to spend any money on proper Defender doors
> as frankly they're rubbish.
>
> Given that series doors fit and give me much more knee room and
> significantly more elbow room and are less prone to being ****, I am
> looking for a pair in decent condition. Craddocks etc want about 300
> quid for a pair, which is frankly ludicrous, I'm looking more for
> about 40 or so quid for each door. Are there any breakers or sellers
> out there particularly in the south or south west of England that have
> any available for reasonable prices?
>
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> For every expert, there is an equal but opposite expert

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• May 3, 2005

• #4

On 2005-05-03, Nige <[email protected]> wrote:

> Beamends do fully glazed door tops for around 28, bottoms are around
> the same & they are new matey.

Not sure if you're getting special prices but from their website it's
about 45 quid for the top and bottom each, making that about 90 quid
each side, and that's without catches, gaskets etc.

Still much cheaper than new Defender doors, but not quite as cheap as
you're suggesting.

If I'm wrong and am missing something, do please set me straight, I'd
love to be wrong ;-)

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Tom Woods

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• May 3, 2005

• #5

On Tue, 3 May 2005 19:23:30 +0100, Ian Rawlings <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Hello all, I need to replace my Defender doors within the next few
>months but am unwilling to spend any money on proper Defender doors
>as frankly they're rubbish.

What is up with the defender doors? do the frames rot like series
ones?

>Given that series doors fit and give me much more knee room and
>significantly more elbow room and are less prone to being ****, I am
>looking for a pair in decent condition. Craddocks etc want about 300
>quid for a pair, which is frankly ludicrous, I'm looking more for
>about 40 or so quid for each door. Are there any breakers or sellers
>out there particularly in the south or south west of England that have
>any available for reasonable prices?

I'm also not sure i'd bother with second hand doors - Youre going to
have to look fairly hard to find some second hand series doors that
arnt going rotten.

 

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beamendsltd

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• May 4, 2005

• #6

In message <[email protected]>
Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2005-05-03, Nige <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Beamends do fully glazed door tops for around 28, bottoms are around
> > the same & they are new matey.
>
> Not sure if you're getting special prices but from their website it's
> about 45 quid for the top and bottom each, making that about 90 quid
> each side, and that's without catches, gaskets etc.
>
> Still much cheaper than new Defender doors, but not quite as cheap as
> you're suggesting.
>
> If I'm wrong and am missing something, do please set me straight, I'd
> love to be wrong ;-)
>

Door tops - unglazed £23.03 inc VAT ea.
Door tops - glazed £44.65 inc VAT ea.
Door Bottoms - £44.65 inc VAT ea.

which would be (worst case) £178.60 inc VAT

a lot less that 300!

Richard



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Ian Rawlings

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• May 4, 2005

• #7

On 2005-05-03, Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:

> What is up with the defender doors? do the frames rot like series
> ones?

Yes they do, and everything else as well, I posted a summary elsewhere
in this thread.

> I'm also not sure i'd bother with second hand doors - Youre going to
> have to look fairly hard to find some second hand series doors that
> arnt going rotten.

Yes, but looking is generally cheap, so I'll try that first, I'm in no
major hurry.

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Ian Rawlings

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• May 4, 2005

• #8

On 2005-05-04, beamendsltd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Door tops - unglazed £23.03 inc VAT ea.
> Door tops - glazed £44.65 inc VAT ea.
> Door Bottoms - £44.65 inc VAT ea.
>
> which would be (worst case) £178.60 inc VAT

Yep, that's what I thought, about £100 more than I want to pay,
especially after having done the month's finances, however if I get
desperate I'll consider it.

Cheers!

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beamendsltd

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• May 4, 2005

• #9

In message <[email protected]>
Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2005-05-04, beamendsltd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Door tops - unglazed £23.03 inc VAT ea.
> > Door tops - glazed £44.65 inc VAT ea.
> > Door Bottoms - £44.65 inc VAT ea.
> >
> > which would be (worst case) £178.60 inc VAT
>
> Yep, that's what I thought, about £100 more than I want to pay,
> especially after having done the month's finances, however if I get
> desperate I'll consider it.
>
> Cheers!
>

You could have them on installments....... one bit a month for
4 months - plenty of time to get a nice paint finish ;-)

Richard
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Ian Rawlings

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• May 4, 2005

• #10

On 2005-05-04, beamendsltd <[email protected]> wrote:

> You could have them on installments....... one bit a month for
> 4 months - plenty of time to get a nice paint finish ;-)

Yeah but for one month I'd have to choose between cold face or cold
nads, not sure which I'd go for!

As for paint, not sure what that is, please elaborate!

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