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I took it to a couple of restorers who came out with outrageous estimates and the garage which has done some work on it in the past offered to take it of my hands to allow their apprentice to train on it, taking the body off the chassis. While undecided on what to do I was advised of a retired person who has repaired huge numbers of land rovers and he's welded it up for us. Not the tidiest of repairs but they're hidden and look solid. I'll have to touch up the rust proofing though as not as good as I'd like. Got it back and it's been MoT'd so its back on the road for winter hooray.
We had thought of buying a replacement but our budget would probably have just bought one with more problems. Now hoping that we can get a few more years out of it. I may treat it to a steel wheel refurbishment (or buy replacements if I can find some good standard ones) as they're getting a bit rusty, Personally I like the look of five spoke alloys but my partner prefers the original steel wheels and its her car.
A happy ending.
I was also going to say "get it fixed". It owes you nothing a a good repair in these known rot spots could see another 20 years out of it.
A newer one could be just as rotten and will cost a lot more.
Pump the repair full of wax.
Have fun
Mike
Yokohama Geolanders, Sony head unit, NAUTILUS Air Horn, DRL conversion, Rear cargo space, Elvis Bobblehead, transfer Guard, Indian hanging Elephant, Koni Heavy track dampers, Custom SS exhaust, Voodoo Doll, Adventure Rack with LED ight bar, vintage ERIBA caravan usually attached (yes it's slow)
Can anyone kindly advise of the colour code for this metallic blue colour as I'd like to try and get some for some touch up work.
Perhaps listing the range of Suzuki standard colours is something for the Wiki pages?
Also, is there a known standard colour for the steel wheels, as they're not quite silver but as a silvery grey I think. I'd like to keep them a standard colour when repainting?
Interesting read despite it being an older thread; just went through this a few months ago with my own 21 year old Jimny - consequences of two decades of being unkept and some bodged jobs. It failed horrifically this year, but 3 weeks later came through without any advisories. Mainly welding-related - I think it had slipped through just because it had never been to a 'proper' MOT test station who do things thoroughly.
Persevered with the support of forum peeps and here we are; best decision I made keeping it and its gone one to give me hours of joy messing around and improving it in subtle ways.
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