Once welding is completed with brand new OEM sills (finding these is genuinely like looking for unicorn poo), then all the panels will be getting replaced. These consist of, all 4 doors, boot lid, bonnet, and front wings.
All the panels are brand new but some of them were old stock and had storage marks, nothing I could see TBH which would be an issue (more of that later).
I had difficulty sourcing one of the doors and had to bite the bullet and buy it from the stealer, who imported it from the fatherland at a cost of circa £600+!
One of the wings were also purchased from the stealer around £150 IIRC (it's been a while).
Two of the doors, 1 sill, 1 wing, and boot lid were purchased from.........Nick at Euromerc
Having contacted Nick (yes it took some doing) and arranging to actually go all the way to Wales to collect said parts, I was a little peeved to say the least to find he didn't have some that he initially said he did (as in 2 wings, 3 doors), but hey ho, I was pleased I got some of the parts, so loaded them up in the back of the ML and headed back home.
As this transaction was carried out in a public car park, I didn't throughly check the parts over but they seemed fine with light storage marks, which was how Nick had described them. Yes it was a very long day but worth it.
In the balance of fairness, as I know he get's a lot of bad press, my dealings with Nick were positive.
), orange it is then. The clear ones will of course be kept to one side for originality purposes.
