We've got some corrosion on the offside front wheel-arch by the seat-belt mount on our Westy Club Joker, which we probably need to get fixed before we put it in for it's MOT in a couple of months. It probably needs a welding job i.e. cut out and replace the rusted flat section at the top of the arch, and finish properly.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good bodyshop that could do this i.e. someone who understands T25s? Ideally someone local to us in north-east London but we're happy to travel further for a sensitively and properly done job.
T25 bodywork - (north) London - anyone good?
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T25 bodywork - (north) London - anyone good?
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Re: T25 bodywork - (north) London - anyone good?
Bill at Westgate motors, Westgate st, Hackney. He's seen many a T25, I've seen his work with photos and in the flesh.
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Re: T25 bodywork - (north) London - anyone good?
Chris Cross Motors in Palmers Green or Beetlemania in Muswell Hill.
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1990 VW T25 Transporter
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LPG'd by Gasure
Re: T25 bodywork - (north) London - anyone good?
Chris is great but much more £ than Bill for resto work.
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Just for other's reference, we eventually went to Bill at Westgate Motors - 020 7241 1233 - E8 3RN.
Bill's got an old school garage in several railway arches near London Fields, and they did a nice tidy job replacing the area at the top of our front offside arch, all properly finished for a very reasonable price.
Bill's got an old school garage in several railway arches near London Fields, and they did a nice tidy job replacing the area at the top of our front offside arch, all properly finished for a very reasonable price.
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Re: T25 bodywork - (north) London - anyone good?
Ahhhh under the arches , i like that
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Re: T25 bodywork - (north) London - anyone good?
arches repaired - under the arches
don' get much better than that
don' get much better than that

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I'll pitch it up and you can hit it out of the park 

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Owner of a red T25 fixed hi top campervan - colour - spikey red - petrol - water cooled - 1.9 dg engine rhd - 1990 g reg n still going strong!-