I love the simplicity of a Land Rover door

"Speedmonkey" (Speedmonkey) 08/07/2013 at 14:26 • Filed to: None

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TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Speedmonkey 08/07/2013 at 14:32

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Door from a Disco Series II 03/04 me thinks. Replacing the auto locking mechanism is a bit of a pain though.

Speedmonkey > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/07/2013 at 14:39

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Spot on sir

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Speedmonkey 08/07/2013 at 14:41

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Heh, this just means I spend waaaay to much time with my Land Rover lol.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/07/2013 at 14:45

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I was going to say the same thing. I could tell from the speaker being low on the door, I know that people complain about this as in the Series I it was mounted high so that there'd be no electronics low in the door for when one is driving in a river.

Party-vi > Speedmonkey 08/07/2013 at 14:51

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waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 08/07/2013 at 14:54

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Yeah that is an issue, although if you don't let your door seals get bad you can avoid that.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Party-vi 08/07/2013 at 14:55

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D2's go for pretty cheap these days, they just need a lot of TLC in most cases.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Speedmonkey 08/07/2013 at 14:57

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Bah, my good sir. Bah and harrumph. Why, that Land-Rover door has rollup windows and a rotary latch. Scarcely a Land Rover door at all.

Speedmonkey > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/07/2013 at 15:01

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Ah! Yours has the optional extra hole along the underside

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Speedmonkey 08/07/2013 at 15:05

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Hole on the underside? My boy, in my day, we let the manufacturer's notch on the end of the bottom channel alone, that's what we did! And if rust and water had to find its own way out, well, then completely its job alone! In my day we didn't mollycoddle any stinking rust. We had real rust, MAN's rust.

Speedmonkey > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/07/2013 at 15:11

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I drove one last year with electric windows. Didn't seem right

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Speedmonkey 08/07/2013 at 15:16

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The bottom channels in all the ones I've ever seen seem to want to rust out worse on the driver's side. Given that most have no door liners, one's left to assume it's an issue of condensed leg stank, I mean vapor from the driver and the driver's snowy or wet boots.

JEM > Speedmonkey 08/07/2013 at 15:22

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This reminds of one of the funny things I love about the 1st gen Jeep Cherokees. The entire window doesn't go down, but the vent/wing portion is totally fixed. I'd love to hear the thinking at AMC that made things this way. Did they save $1 per door this way? Was it stronger that way? An afterthought? "Guys no one needs their WHOLE window to roll down"? Some weird French influence? WHY!?!

Not the best pic but you can see the black metal/rubber vertical bar at the top of the door panel. Only the square/main part of the window retracts. The diagonal section is totally fixed.

Speedmonkey > JEM 08/07/2013 at 15:54

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That's a bit rubbish!