Panel bonding adhesive for door repair

[Parker]

Hi Folks

my rear left door has a crack. 2006 Defender. I am not sure why this is cracked, maybe it had something between the body and top of door when it slammed shut. Nothing is visible from the outside.

This sort of thing annoys me. I'd like to find used Puma doors but have not as yet. So for now I'd like to do a temporary repair using some stainless angle I have from a range hood.

Any recommendations for bonding adhesive? I do not want to weld and don't have any spot welding equipment. I figure that a strip of SS on the face of it should do the trick after cleaning the paint. I'm planning to go roughly 50mm either side of the crack.

There seem to be a few options, among them 3M panel Bonding adhesive at around $45 for 180mm on the bay.

Suggestions anyone?

[roverrescue]

If you are set on NOT welding that repair
I would pop the door card
Clean paint back to base
And use an angled brace - I fear it will need to be relatively thick and long to offer real support.

Simply placing a piece of SS on the flat will likely lead to fatigue and cracking again

Is it possible your hinges / latches are out of alignment allowing a lot of movement ? I can’t get my head around the failure process
If as you say something was wedge in the door upper and levered the door outwards I’d expect to see buckling on the end face not cracking?

But who knows... thinking wildly could this be the result of someone levering the upper outer corner to attempt an unlocking of the door?

Steve

[Ancient Mariner]

Internal rust has chomped the guts out of the metal


AM

[Don 130]

I'm agreeing with AM. That's got a lot of rust behind it. Dismantle, clean up, weld, paint

Don.

[JDNSW]

I agree with AM - its rusted from the inside.