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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4658  
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34 years old and no body dents and this happened last night. Dent to the roof. Had other non Land Rover related storm damage. Another storm due Tuesday night.
 Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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22nd Jan 2024 1:57pm |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410 
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Ooooo that sucks...
 Do you think it will pop out or is it creased?
Miffy still has a ding from a flying roof slate...  Still stings a little when I clean her. |
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22nd Jan 2024 2:38pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4658
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Don't know if it will come out. That stuff does not pop like ordinary steel in cars. It could be pushed but it will never be perfect. I will have to live with it for the present
 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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22nd Jan 2024 5:01pm |
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| Ianb Member Since: 25 Oct 2023 Location: Devon Posts: 392 
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ooof sorry to see/hear that. I heard form a friend that you guys got hit pretty hard. The Yeti - 110 Camper https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic90308.html
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22nd Jan 2024 5:10pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4658
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Zikali last week before getting disfigured!
Click image to enlarge 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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22nd Jan 2024 5:19pm |
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| markb110 Member Since: 22 May 2010 Location: Guildford Posts: 2634  
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Spud, sorry to see that happened.
Just a try. Take the headlining out, then the passenger seat base. Then use a sandbag next to the dent, a length of fence post on top of a bottle jack then see if you can gently tease in back into place. Best add a spreader plate for the jack so that you don’t push the lid down onto the battery terminals. I would hate for your wife to use the life insurance to buy a new kitchen….  |
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22nd Jan 2024 5:29pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3498 
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That is really depressing
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22nd Jan 2024 5:31pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4658
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It could have been a lot worse. I had to get help in to get Zikali out. Had to brace up the left side of the broken timber and raise up the right hand side so I could reverse the Defender out without doing more damage, besides I have lived with the wife's buckles and dents for so long...... 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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22nd Jan 2024 5:42pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20356
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A bit of warmth from a hairdryer would help bring that out, no more heat than that though.
Sorry to hear that happened, a real pain. Some people have had cars hit by full blown trees as well, roof tiles and other things like that concern me more than trees in storms, usually you can keep parked away from the trees but buildings isn’t so easy. $W33T $0U7H3RN $UG4R 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪🇺🇸⛽️🛢️⚙️🧰💪 |
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22nd Jan 2024 6:14pm |
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| lightning Member Since: 23 Apr 2009 Location: High Peak, Derbyshire Posts: 2761
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That looks a lovely (200 tdi?) 110 Station Wagon. Fortunately repair will not be difficult on the dented roof.
Remove the headliner and get a body shop to beat out the dent. As a last resort you could replace the front part of the roof. lt's not difficult and would be an opportunity to replace the header rail seal, which will almost certainly be leaking. Also it will be a nice time to clean the headliner while it's out. |
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22nd Jan 2024 6:27pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4658
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1992 200 tdi 110. Started life as a 110 pick up. I bought it in 1996 and had it converted to a 5 door , 9 seat station wagon. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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22nd Jan 2024 6:37pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17374 
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It should be possible for a competent body shop or coach builder with aluminium alloy experience to work that out, but I strongly recommend that you do not attempt it yourself (unless you have that experience) since you will make it worse. If the panel isn't creased and isn't stretched it should be quite easy, but if it has it will require more skill. The alloy work-hardens and may need annealing to be reduced, and whilst all this is not too difficult it is incredibly easy to do far more harm than good , and that would be a big and expensive panel to wreck.
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22nd Jan 2024 6:40pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4658
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Thanks for the advice. I would not contemplate tackling this myself. The Defender is due to go in for some work in a week or so. I will discuss this with the garage. If they exude knowledge and fill me with confidence ( you can guess it is not a LR maindealer
 ) I might get them to tackle it. Worse case scenario I will live with it. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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22nd Jan 2024 6:46pm |
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| shropshiredefender Member Since: 05 Jun 2017 Location: Shropshire Posts: 834 
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Live with it - adds character - will become patina
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22nd Jan 2024 7:29pm |
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