Door frame for a 350i FHC

[Kris500]

Anyone know where to get a new Door frame for a 350i FHC or any info on repairing one etc

[19560]

What's wrong with the one that you have got? I think that it's only the line of the fibreglass along the top of the door that is different. As long as the hinge is intact a repair should be possible.

[RAW-SEWedge]

There is an add on wedgepages for 350i and 400SE doors, bare £85 each.

wedgepages

Don't know if that's any good.

[wedg1e]

If you mean the frame that the door glass slides in: you'll be lucky!
Last time I made enquiries (1987) it was around £350 from a dealer; if the factory could be bothered to find a car to copy from. It probably wouldn't fit anyway.
It is possible with patience and a MIG welder to create the channel from strips of steel. One trick I used was to chop good sections out from inside the door and weld them outside the door, then make up the bits you couldn't see using a Ford Sierra glass guide as a template.
You may find one or more of the Tasmin race cars has had them removed and they could be lying around somewhere going begging.


Ian

[york33]

If I find any I'll be sure not to tell you..........cos I want some too :-) I contacted David Gerald TVR months ago. At the time they only had 2 used ones. Price each was £100+vat+£12 shipping. I thought "eeeek" and declined, intending to make my own up. I can't wind the windows down without the carefully arranged frame falling apart :-(

What we need is some wonderful company to remanufacture them............

cheers
Dave

[Kris500]

Thanks for the input about the door frames, The question was not for me but a friend with a 350, Ive got a Griff and the doors are OK touch wood at this moment in time..

Anyway thanks again for the reply I will pass them ON

[flasher]

Find someone in the Tasmin challenge and ask them, quite a few of them have spares lying around. I had this problem a few years back and the factory quoted me over £500 to make some!

I found a wrecked Tasmin in Daventry and bought the pair off that for £250. Unfortunatley everyone knows how rare they are and charges accordingly. Tell your mate not to break the rear screen whatever he does. I broke mine and a new one is......wait for it.......

£1187

Thank God the insurance company stumped the cash for mine!!!