Thread: aluminium body?

All of them do, the newer they are the more steel panels there are. Like doors, bonnet on the tdci ones.
Im not sure on the td5s.

Originally Posted by blue_mini

All of them do, the newer they are the more steel panels there are. Like doors, bonnet on the tdci ones.
Im not sure on the td5s.

All the doors on a Td5 (at least the later ones as far as I know) and they added the steel bonnet to the Puma as blue_mini said.

The rest of the body remains aluminium to this day...

Cheers,

Lou

About 2002 / 2003 the Td5 doors went to steel.

I have seen 2002 with steel and a 2003 with ally!

Easy to tell which is which. The ally doors have a cut & weld to get the door shaped to fit up against the roof/windscreen joins against the A pillar, the steel doors are rolled with no weld. Very obvious with two side by side.

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Actually only the door frame changed in my03, the skin remained alloy. Pre my03 the door frame was welded steel sections, after it moved to pressed steel, but all td5 still had alloy skins. The door skin was changed to steel in my07 for the puma. The frame remains the same. The rear door frame went to pressed steel in about my01 replacing the welded steel frame.
The steel skinned doors of the puma seem to be more durable than the alloy skin and less prone to rippling near the handle.

might depend if they are South African or English ?
my MY05 110 has pressed steel frames, aluminium skins an the 4 passenger doors, Rear cargo door is all steel inc skin.
Bonnet is Aluminium skin over pressed steel frame.

We hired 2 no '06 Td5's in the UK for work and stuck magnetic company logos on the doors (sheet fridge magnet type) and they stuck well. Based on that I assumed the doors were steel skinned, but it might have been the frames or stiffeners allowing enough magnetic bond?.

To the OP, they were 100% aluminium bodied up to 1998 when the Td5 came out and the rear door (Safari Door) became steel. Some later Td5 models, depending on their country specification had their side doors changed to steel.

In 2007 the Tdci or Puma came out with all aluminium body except for the distinctive bonnet and all doors (sides and rear) in steel.

Cheers,

Lou

Is the roof steel on a puma?

Nope, alu.