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discoboy84

New Member

• Dec 13, 2009

• #1

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?

 

The Mad Hat Man

Well-Known Member

LZIR Despatch Agent

• Dec 13, 2009

• #2

how much is a year and a half?

 

V8_Disco

New Member

• Dec 13, 2009

• #3

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

 

andyb66

Well-Known Member

• Dec 14, 2009

• #4

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.

 

[JP]

New Member

• Dec 14, 2009

• #5

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

 

si844

New Member

• Dec 14, 2009

• #6

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.

 

vivnap

Banned

• Dec 14, 2009

• #7

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.

 

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si844

New Member

• Dec 15, 2009

• #8

tis a nice tidy job that is vivnap

 

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Beast o Bodmin

Banned

• Dec 15, 2009

• #9

[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...

 

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Beast o Bodmin

Banned

• Dec 15, 2009

• #10

easier to wack in new inners lagged with oil.

 

vivnap

Banned

• Dec 16, 2009

• #11

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.

 

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trax99

Well-Known Member

• Dec 16, 2009

• #12

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

 

trax99

Well-Known Member

• Dec 16, 2009

• #13

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 !!)

 

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discoboy84

New Member

• Dec 24, 2009

• #14

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

 

si844

New Member

• Dec 25, 2009

• #15

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.

 

thebiglad

Well-Known Member

• Dec 25, 2009

• #16

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?

 

The Mad Hat Man

Well-Known Member

LZIR Despatch Agent

• Dec 25, 2009

• #17

here is some info and pics....

 

vivnap

Banned

• Dec 25, 2009

• #18

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