MK2 Doors

[asam_x]

Hi. Does anyone have a good set of MK2 saloon front doors for sale as I need for a resto I am doing? Cheers

[iggy]

hi mk2 doors in good condition are hard to get hold of you can buy door skins from earl part I believe, im looking for front doors for my mk2 as well just recently bought two excellent rear doors from a guy in kent  unfortunately for me heed sold the front ones,

[asam_x]

Hi. Getting desperate now as the front doors are holding the work up on the bodywork. My car is on the ramp, just a shell, no running gear, wiring or brake pipes. The only thing on the car is the dash, oh and the headlining. Its costing me a fortune but am determined to crack on and keep the car on the road, hopefully for a good few years more. So if anyone does fancy selling me a good set of front MK2 saloon doors, I would appreciate it. Cheers

[Richard B]

Have you tried Andy Harrison in Devon?

[asam_x]

Hi, thanx for the reply. How would I go about getting in touch with Andy Harrison? Cheers

[Tim Bancroft]

Might be worth trying either Lee Godfrey or Dave Harvey, both frequent this forum.

Otherwise Alan Chatterton may be able to help.

Try an appeal on the 2000/2500 website?

[TedTaylor]

Andy moved to new premises earlier this year to better be able to store his stock.  Try harrison2500@btinternet.com
He's 2000/2500/2.5 Register organiser for the Devon Group and a nice bloke to deal with.

I see you have already tried the Register website but as iggy says, good doors are hard to come by and really it is often better having your own doors restored and new skins or repair section fitted.  You then know the doors are rust free - the seam at the bottom of s/h ones where the skin folds over the inner carcase are rarely rust free.

CW used to do the the bottom skin repair strip but not listed on his site now, though he has some doors.  They may be pricey but this relates to what they cost him and they should be good - ask him about any rust that may be present at the bottom/in the seam if you decide to buy.  

Very few doors don't have some rust at the bottom somewhere and you are very lucky if you find ones that are 'clean' which is why people who have a spare tend to hang on to good one ....... just in case.  You may be lucky and get offered a complete good door but if you get offered one with a good inner carcase at the bottom but repairs to the skin needed at the bottom this may be the best you can do.

Occasionally doors come up on ebay but you do need to ask about the bottom rust even if they are described as good to protect yourself if there is rust when you receive them.  I picked up some really good doors for my Mk1 last year - poorly described and the set of four cost me £90, an absolute bargain and could not understand the lack of bidding .

MUT

[thescrapman]

I, and others, have found to our cost in the past that doors fitted to one 2000 can be a shocking fit to another 2000.

They must have "adjusted" the doors and the openings on the production line in order to get them to fit. I reckon the jigs for the shells must have been loose allowing the panels to fit together in a random manner, or the workers were just cowboys!

If your doors are in anyway repairable, I would investigate that avenue first.

Or be prepared to spend hours with a big hammer and/or welder.

Cheers

Colin

[asam_x]

Thanx for all your replies guys. I checked on the 2000/2500 register, as I'm a paid up member and found a contact number for Andy, and email address. The contact number must be disconnected so I willl email him.
My doors arent too bad but its the bottoms of the doors where the door seal goes where there is rust, and as the resto is costing me around 10k, I would really prefer as less filler as possible on the car.

[TedTaylor]

7335 wrote:

Thanx for all your replies guys. I checked on the 2000/2500 register, as I'm a paid up member and found a contact number for Andy, and email address. The contact number must be disconnected so I willl email him.
My doors arent too bad but its the bottoms of the doors where the door seal goes where there is rust, and as the resto is costing me around 10k, I would really prefer as less filler as possible on the car.

If it's the channel where the seal sits CW does a replacement.

MUT

[JimEB]

thescrapman wrote:

I, and others, have found to our cost in the past that doors fitted to one 2000 can be a shocking fit to another 2000.

They must have "adjusted" the doors and the openings on the production line in order to get them to fit. I reckon the jigs for the shells must have been loose allowing the panels to fit together in a random manner, or the workers were just cowboys!

If your doors are in anyway repairable, I would investigate that avenue first.

Or be prepared to spend hours with a big hammer and/or welder.

Cheers

Colin

I'd imagine that the tolerance stacking devised by the design engineers couldn't be delivered in practice by the manufacturing engineers  ;)  When I worked at Land Rover in the mid/late Nineties, the Defender BIW technology was about as old as for our Triumphs (!) and there was a fair amount of body and closure (doors, bonnets, tailgate...) alignment adjustment once the assemblies came off the jigs and fixtures...

Modern BIW design and production technology is much, much more accurate, precise and repeatable!

[piman]

Hello Colin,

"They must have "adjusted" the doors and the openings on the production line"

I think it is more likely that repairs over the years have altered the original apertures?

Alec

[mikeyb]

No, it's fact that different doors fit different shaped apertures.

I have experienced this, having needed to space out a hinge so much to make a door fit, that the courtesy lamp switch no longer contacted the door frame when shut!  Also Mike Weaver found this when restoring his Stag estate - see his blog!

[Richard B]

Also the panels that didn't fit, and wern't used on the production line; ended up in the stores to be sold off as parts.   :'(

[Ridgetone Triumph]

I don't remember the doors fitting too badly when new, I would hazard to guess bad repairs over the years and, of course the way some of our cars were treated in such programs as 'The Sweeney' and any other cops and robbers show, not too mention the way the works rally cars were treated by such rally greats.........How despicable, wouldn't see me throwing a big saloon about the place, no I have lots of respect for the future restorer who will one day be looking for a nice set of good fitting doors and perhaps a good none twisted body shell. I can remember fitting new skins to badly damaged doors and making them fit the aperture as well, now this door would be unique to that door opening and none other  ??)
Not good when you then years down the track purchase this door to fit your newly acquired dream 2000  :B  

[piman]

Hello Mikey,

as some of these doors can be up to fifty years old, there is no saying what has been done to them over the years and how far from the original dimensions they are.
While there is no doubt that panel fit has improved with modern cars, I can't believe that there was selective assembly of doors into shells when on the production line, I know they were 'adjusted' to fit but not to the extent of trial and error until one door suited a shell, it just would not be possible to build production cars on that basis.

Alec

[thescrapman]

I am convinced they would hammer the door frames and the openings to get the doors to fit. Maybe even grading doors to get a reasonable fit before hitting them.

Perhaps it might be that a 1972 door fits any 1972 car reasonably well, but try to fit a 1969 door to the car and it only fits where it touches.

[andy thompson]

When restoring my estate I had free access to about 10 right and left NOS Stanpart doors on black primer - some were a shocking fit - eventually we found one that did - factory rejects?

[willows40]

Always best to repair you existing doors, As has been said on here there is so much difference in the fit from  door to door.
As an example have a very good n/s/f door sitting in my garage, its original and hasn`t been reskinned , Not really look that closely but think its a mk2 as painted emerald, Have tried fitting it to 3 different cars now and only one of the cars was it an exceptable fit

Cheers Andy

[nang]

It's happened over here too. When I first got my 2500 I changed a couple of doors as I had wrecked a couple of cars and had spares. To this day one door has a 1/8 ' packer under one of the hinges and while it now looks ok it's by no means perfect.
Tony.