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airpusher

Member Since: 04 Sep 2011
Location: South Wales
Posts: 363

2006 Defender 110 Td5 XS DCPU Zambezi Silver

Stainless door sills

Has anybody tried these stainless door sills/threashes?

http://www.yrmlandrover.com/epages/BT3575....s/094-0006

Any comments on quality fit etc would be greatly received.

I'd like to fit the entreq ones but they are well outside my budget!

Are there any other option out there? These are all I could turn up!

Thanks

2006 Defender Double Cab- Zambezi Silver

14th Apr 2013 9:09am

tazmarkuk

Member Since: 24 Jan 2012
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 134

Stainless door sills on eBay

Have a look at these on eBay, was thinking about fitting a set of the Entreq myself but as you say they are pricey, I found these on eBay but have not taken the plunge yet. Item number eBay Item No. 221211921205

Mark

14th Apr 2013 11:55am

Green Machine

Member Since: 19 Nov 2010
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 1226

I've got the YRM ones on mine. Fit well. There was a little bit of jiggling around to be done to get the bolts through the front door thresholds and the cill underneath, but that was partly because I bought a set of larger SS bolts to fit them, which were a tight squeeze. They come with dome head coach bolts as standard, which I didn't really like the look of so I bought a set of stainless Pozi socket screws with Nylocs and stainless washers instead. The worst bit was getting the old rear door threshold off. It's screwed on with some very weedy self-tappers which fuse with the aluminium panel underneath over time. They were impossible to undo on mine, they just all sheared off with any force applied. I started drilling them out, but it was a real pain, so in the end I just drilled a new set of pilot holes in the aluminium offset slightly from the old ones and fitted it that way.

Here's some pics of my YRM ones fitted:

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Only other thing worth mentioning is that you can see the driver / passenger cills have too many holes for a Td5 (expect same on a Puma). Presume this is because earlier models have more bolts along the cill for some reason. But doesn't bother me particularly.

HTH

2005 Td5 | 90 Station Wagon | Tonga Green

14th Apr 2013 12:32pm

airpusher

Member Since: 04 Sep 2011
Location: South Wales
Posts: 363

Cheers guys,

I'll have a look at the eBay ones now.

Cheers for the info Green Machine & the pics.

I'll have to have a look at mine when I get home for the fittings etc.

Cheers guys 2006 Defender Double Cab- Zambezi Silver

14th Apr 2013 1:47pm

Photoguy1510

Member Since: 02 Apr 2013
Location: Wellington
Posts: 25

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 SW Orkney Grey

I see a lot of guys using stainless on their cars but have to ask are you guys not worries about electrolysis aluminium and stainless don't get along at all. Saw some stainless wing top covers as well big no no for me, might look good but the long term price is just too high. 2013 Orkney Grey 110 SE on order should be here on 20/04

18th Apr 2013 9:10am

mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

Photoguy1510 wrote:
I see a lot of guys using stainless on their cars but have to ask are you guys not worries about electrolysis aluminium and stainless don't get along at all. Saw some stainless wing top covers as well big no no for me, might look good but the long term price is just too high.

i know its where dissimilar metals appear on the periodic table as to how they react, but is stainless steel worse than normal steel?

18th Apr 2013 10:56am

Photoguy1510

Member Since: 02 Apr 2013
Location: Wellington
Posts: 25

mikeh501 wrote:
Photoguy1510 wrote:
I see a lot of guys using stainless on their cars but have to ask are you guys not worries about electrolysis aluminium and stainless don't get along at all. Saw some stainless wing top covers as well big no no for me, might look good but the long term price is just too high.

i know its where dissimilar metals appear on the periodic table as to how they react, but is stainless steel worse than normal steel?

Brass and stainless steel are very bad, your better of to use galvanised or zinc plated screws. In refrigeration we use to have rivnuts on evaporators and the electrolysis would eat out aluminium rivnuts in under 2 years. The problem was so big that they now use plastic spreader nuts instead of the rivnuts this keeps the stainless screws isolated from the aluminium stoping the problem dead in its tracts, the steel fan covers has no effect ( for the life of the equipment )on the aluminium. We also changed the SS screws with zinc and that lasts a few years before they start to rust but at least the aluminium is not affected and screws are a dime a dozen. Yes refrigeration there is constant moisture that makes it worse but the rules stay the same.

Its by no means scientific but Im happy to trust what I have seen over the last 20 years. 2013 Orkney Grey 110 SE on order should be here on 20/04

18th Apr 2013 11:29am

airpusher

Member Since: 04 Sep 2011
Location: South Wales
Posts: 363

Cheers Photoguy,

Interesting point! I'll have to have a rethink! Mmmmm 2006 Defender Double Cab- Zambezi Silver

18th Apr 2013 11:39am

pope10001

Member Since: 15 Oct 2011
Location: Dulverton
Posts: 489

1992 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Zermatt Silver

It might be worth installing them with rivnuts then, that way when the rivnuts deteriorate you can just replace them as they are also a dime a dozen. The rest of the sill should be protected by the paint, or not???

18th Apr 2013 12:14pm

Green Machine

Member Since: 19 Nov 2010
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 1226

I just installed them with a corrosion inhibitor. I've used Duralac jointing compound on all of the stainless fixings that I've replaced around the truck. The stainless sills were coated with corrosion block grease on the underside prior to assembly, as were all the fixings. The two things just need to be electrically isolated from each other one way or another. 2005 Td5 | 90 Station Wagon | Tonga Green

18th Apr 2013 2:20pm

need4speed

Member Since: 23 Nov 2012
Location: Kilmarnock
Posts: 746

Lots of folk, myself included put a short length of heatshrink over the stainless fixing where it passes through the aluminium body. This coupled with a rubber/plastic washer totally isolates the stainless fixing from the ally and preventing any galvanic/electrolytic corrosion.

18th Apr 2013 4:03pm

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