Doors

[cewilson]

Do county doors fit straight onto a Defender?

I am sick of replacing door handles :mad:

[abaddonxi]

What
do
you
do
to
the
doors?

:eek:

[long stroke]

I have seen them on defers, but i'm not shore what work was involved;)

TIM.

[dmdigital]

Don't know but a friends got two backseat Defender doors on his County... and SIII roof and a few bits from a SII...

[JDNSW]

Doors are interchangeable from Series 2 through to current Defender, although you have to change the striker plate as well, and there will be issues with the varying door check arrangements. However, I believe that the only thing you have to do to fit Defender doors on a County* or vice versa, is to change the striker plate as well. In my view the later doors are superior in almost every respect except that they are thicker, reducing elbow room, although I do prefer the recessed lift up handles.

Note that the change in doors was in 1987 not 1989, so it is not strictly County*/Defender.

John

* Using the term "County" in its common but incorrect useage to mean a pre-Defender 110, as I gasther that is what you meant.

[Bundalene]

My daughter has just broken the door handle in her 1999 TD5 Defender. The button you push in to open the door on the passengers side just broke off. - Bugger of a job to fix - I think!! - because I will have to do it when I next see her.

Erich

[Jock The Rock]

My daughter has just broken the door handle in her 1999 TD5 Defender. The button you push in to open the door on the passengers side just broke off. - Bugger of a job to fix - I think!! - because I will have to do it when I next see her.

Erich

Its a ***** of a job :mad:

I had to fit a new outer door handle to my old Defender and it involves pulling just about everything out of the door :(

[rick130]

What
do
you
do
to
the
doors?

:eek:

The buttons break off in the handle
I've had three go, I look at it as an anti-theft feature :D

I've only replaced the drivers door one so far, I just jam a key (or a screwdriver, or a stick, or...) into the hole where the button was on the other doors to open them. It really throws people when they go to get in the passenger side and they can't find a button. :twisted:

[cewilson]

The buttons break off in the handle
I've had three go, I look at it as an anti-theft feature :D

I've only replaced the drivers door one so far, I just jam a key (or a screwdriver, or a stick, or...) into the hole where the button was on the other doors to open them. It really throws people when they go to get in the passenger side and they can't find a button. :twisted:

They are also the first thing to go if you lean against a tree or bank, or you gently lay it on it's side :angel: