fullfatrr.com - View topic - Rusty Sills... A heads up to owners of early FFRR's

Advertise on fullfatrr.com »

Forum · Gallery · Wiki · Shop · Sponsors

Home · FAQ · New Posts · My Posts · PMs · Search · Members · Map · Calendar · Profile · Donate · Register · Log In

Home > Maintenance & Mods (L322) > Rusty Sills... A heads up to owners of early FFRR's

Page 1 of 1

Print this entire topic ·

Haylands

Member Since: 04 Mar 2014
Location: East Yorkshire
Posts: 8325

2014 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Rusty Sills... A heads up to owners of early FFRR's

Hi

Just taken the sill covers off mine to have a look at making some rock sliders.... mine has the usual rust starting on the rear wheel arch lip but it has spread to the sill as well, picture shows where the jacking point on the rear drivers side is. You can also see some damage by some idiot in the past who missed the jacking point...

The sill covers are easy to get off, six plastic plugs underneath and then just pull it away with the doors open, it has several push fit clips, the jacking points come off by prising out the central plastic pin and pulling them off, there are also several large holes in the face of the sill with rubber bungs so should be easy to rustproof the sill from the inside with just a spray can of you favorite rust preventer.

I've repaired the damage, removed all the rust and treated mine...

Sill cover fixing

Prise out the central pin on the jacking point, I used a small screwdriver, this was the front one

Your then left with this... well hopefully yours will be better...

The sill cover is so comprehensive that there was no evidence of this with it in place, I supposed you could take out the jacking point first to see if yours is OK...

Just thought I'd share and add another job to everyone's list...!!! Pete
__________________________________________________
2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

Last edited by Haylands on 15th Jun 2022 1:31pm. Edited 1 time in total

13th Apr 2014 3:58pm

paul271

Member Since: 19 Oct 2013
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 502

Gonna do mine one side at a time along with the arches. Cheers for the how to on the cover removal mate. That'll save lots of snapped bits!

13th Apr 2014 4:12pm

DaveK

Member Since: 18 Oct 2013
Location: StHelens
Posts: 790

Are these sill trims held on purely by the plastic clips ? No bolts to un do any where ?

24th Jan 2015 10:31am

nicedayforit

Member Since: 11 Jun 2011
Location: Beside the Solway
Posts: 3979

2004 Range Rover Vogue Td6 Giverny Green

Imo lot to be said for giving the sills a heavy coat of black grease before refitting the plastic sill covers and then cleaning away any excess.

24th Jan 2015 11:48am

Richcl

Member Since: 23 Sep 2010
Location: Tewkesbury, Glos
Posts: 1011

I had the plastic cover sills off mine last year, painted and waxoiled.

Luckily caught before any holes appeared.

I also noticed I have rust coming through the rear wheel arch, to be expected I suppose as the car is 12 years old now.

24th Jan 2015 12:47pm

Joe90

Member Since: 29 Apr 2010
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 6410

It is a bit more tricky if you have side steps fitted .
Experience is the only genuine knowledge, but as time passes, I have forgotten more than I can remember
Volvo V70 P2 2006 2.4 Petrol 170bhp Estate SE
MG Midget Mk1 1962

Previous: L322 Range Rover TDV8 3.6 2008; L322 Range Rover TD6 3.0 2002; P38A Range Rover V8 1999

24th Jan 2015 1:32pm

KurtVerbose

Member Since: 08 Aug 2010
Location: Les Arses
Posts: 5848

2007 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Stornoway Grey

Another good reason for not having side steps.

24th Jan 2015 5:15pm

Page 1 of 1

All times are GMT

Jump to

< Previous Topic | Next Topic >

Posting Rules

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum