Hi there,
in the proces of replacing a damaged wing and rear panel I also wanted to replace the rear crossmember and the body cappings on my MY2006 TD5 90 CSW XS. As the RH bodycapping was slightly bent due to the inpact that damaged the rear panel I thought it would be wise to buy a new one, and then galvanized. As it started to rust allready. Searching for these Items led me to a company called YRM metal solutions.
I ordered the cappings (being advertized as being cappings for a 90 defender CSW) there. On arrival these turn out to miss the hole in the corner of the cappign where the main bolt to hold the windowframe is located. I wrote a e-mail to this company including the pictures I enclose here, showing the problem and telling them i ordered a galvanized item which you rather not modify because of change of rust. I got this reaction:
Thanks for your email and images.
Yes, these are genuine land rover 90 CSW cappings , as we buy these from land rover.
The images on the website are the same as the ones provided to yourself and the image you have supplied.
All I can think of, is land rover have altered them from 2006 to 2015, to accommodate the forward facing seats, I would match drill your body to suit the capping and bolt in place.
Now for one I wrote I have a MY2006 defender which is a TD5 not a TD4, secondly, I have checked my neighbours car (a 99 defender) which has the same bolt in the same place, so BTW does the TD4.
Clearly the customer is to blame because he ordered on discription, not by picture, and now I have to modify my car. I´m not going to sent them back because i get the (horrific) shippingcost not restituted.
Now as YRM claimes to use original LR cappings where did this go wrong? All the 90 CSW I checked have this bolt. I see lots of Item on the net, including in this forum, that show this bolt in this place. I can even state that I haven´t seen a picture of the rear tub where this bolt is NOT in this place.
Anyway I´m not ordering at YRM anymore, Pity for them because now I know that it takes less then a day´s work to do both sides, I get paid handsomely to do 3 others with rusty cappings!
if the originals cappings are not bend I strongly advise to have them gavanized. If they are bent, you are better of buying originals (for instance at SP for 58 pounds) and have these shotblasted and galvanized. Still saves you money on the YRM deal (199 pounds for 2).
Willem.
