Welding of sills

[Peg leg Pete]

Greetings all, just had the Bongo in for new driver side inner and outer sill to be replaced. The garage I took it to has struggled to weld the outer one and has not done the inner one on the grounds that has he tried to weld the weld was just burning through the metal!!!. I would like to know if anybody can recomend a garage in my area that has done this work please, needs doing as it will not pass its next M.O.T. next January kind regards Pete

[waycar8]

Greetings all, just had the Bongo in for new driver side inner and outer sill to be replaced. The garage I took it to has struggled to weld the outer one and has not done the inner one on the grounds that has he tried to weld the weld was just burning through the metal!!!. I would like to know if anybody can recomend a garage in my area that has done this work please, needs doing as it will not pass its next M.O.T. next January kind regards Pete

if it keeps burning through then its rotten Pete, you will have to take it to a body shop rather than a garage, they will fabricate a cill up to the shape and cut the old one back to bare metal so they can get a weld to stick.

Ive had mine done, basically had new outer cills all the way along as it was patchy rust here there and every where, Steve the body shop guy used cills off an old shape transit as it looked similar, but had to do alot of fabricating to do, then after he said he might have been better using a cill from a ford ka??, only going from what he thought in comparison Pete so dont know. these were for the outer cills, he fabricated some parts up for the inner cills as they just needed a couple of small areas sorting.

Any half descent body shop Pete will sort the cills out

[Peg leg Pete]

Cheers Wayne, will be checking out Body shops on Monday, great advice

[kloonsy]

Not sure where abouts in yorkshire you are pete, but if your anywhere near Barnsley i'll have a look at it and give you some advice.

[Peg leg Pete]

Thank you p.m sent

[Peg leg Pete]

Notice this thread has been moderated Kloonsy is going to do work on our Bongo, even though he is very busy.When he replied to my request for help he replied as a member of this forum with the intention of helping a fellow member.