Some good progress over the long weekend. The bottom of the sliding door has been in a bad state since the first year we had Iris when it fell off and the filler covering up the hole in the bottom right corner chipped off. There was an impressive amount of filler along the bottom edge but luckily it looks pretty solid:
I marked a straight line across the panel where the new outer will fit and chopped off the old outer. Surprisingly as nasty as it first looked the rust had only really extended up the first section of the inner frame
Meaning I could get away with only needing a small section of the repair panel. Firstly tacked in:
And then trial fitted to the van to check the gap. It fitted amazingly well first time for a change!
All welded up and dressed. The klokker inner panel is noticeably thinner though, hopefully drowning it in cavity wax when I’m done will help.
While I had the door on I trial fitted the outer too, its looking much better than what was there.
And the inner all finished with a coat of zinc primer.
I’ll come back to this once I’ve done the N/S inner rear wheel arch so I can epoxy both inner sections before I fit the outers.
