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Hi, Just had my van fail it's MOT on rust in the following places

Offside Outer Sill
Offside Inner Sill
Jacking Points
Offside and Nearside door step

I have had spoken to Schofields and they can supply all repair panels except the inner sill, does anyone have any ideas where I can get one?

Garage were also very unhelpful with estimate said it was at least two days welding at £45 an hour but could go up to 4 days (£1620), does any one know of any good welders in the high wycombe area?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Hi rhoop

You don't mention year or model but Just kampers may have what your looking for

http://www.justkampers.com/

It is a 1980, I have looked at JustKampers but I can't find the Offside Inner sill.

45 quid an hour for welding..........

I would seroiusly look around.. and the panels may still be available from VW.. and they WILL be much better quality.......

Oh and do some pics, Is it really as rusty as that??? How did it get through last year!!!!!!

Are the panels really that bad that they all need to be replaced?

Admittedly this is the best way to do the job but trust me most garages wont do the job properly. Can you get away with cutting out the bad sections and setting in patches?

Unless I was taking on a restoration job this would without doubt be my approach.

I had to do a similar job on my van a few years ago and its still fine and dandy now and it only took me about 2 hours to do the lot.

Status VW have inner sill repair panels if you are stuck. We've just had to look for ourselves.

Luckily the bloke who is doing our welding has said that they are ok and that he can repair the wheel arches and jacking points without doing the full sills. He's got to sort the outside of the wheel arch on the nearside too (because we put a jack through it when the caliper seized). He's then going to spray it back orange.

Don't know whether this is any good as a price guide, but he has quoted the maximum of £90 a side including parts.

He's having the van for 2 days.

Bev

Thanks for all your advice, personally I don't think that the rust is that bad and I have a feeling that the garage might be trying it on, I had my suspicions that they were creating work when my wife took her car to be mot'd there last time.

I will take some pictures tonight when I get in and post them, how do I attach pictures?

£90 a side sounds excelent value does that include the spraying as well?[/img]

Yep it does - we've just been to get the paint and we now know the colour yipee

Did you have any luck with your photos?

Well ..... reckon ours is going to cost a heck of a lot more to weld now.

Steve started to remove the units to help the welder next week, and now wishes he hadn't. Got a few holes hmmmmmm. Still look on the bright side at least it can all be fixed! We did however find out that we have an onboard water tank - half the reason why we have the holes no doubt.

Bev

90 quid each sounds cheap.. inc paint etc...

Sound like there having you on,

take to another garage and get a second quote.

Get some pics up so we can see the damage

Jon

£90 sounds too cheap, but good luck to ya. Its a sh!t job welding old metal. Most places don't really want to touch it & very hard to price for as it can be opening cans of metal eating worms!

As for them saying everything needs replacing, I'd get a second opinion.

Load photos to photobucket first & them copy their code on to here.

Here are some links to pictures of the problems, I have taken the van to another garage for a second opinion

http://s288.photobucket.com/albums/ll19 ... C00307.jpg

http://s288.photobucket.com/albums/ll19 ... C00308.jpg

http://s288.photobucket.com/albums/ll19 ... C00309.jpg

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KarlT wrote:As for them saying everything needs replacing, I'd get a second opinion.

Errrmmmm, I see, Didn't tell me you had a bay!

Looks abit of a mess really, Rot with dodgy repairs.

Have you got a garage/lock-up? Fancy getting yourself a cheap mig welder?