Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Suzuki => Topic started by: Evilgoat on July 30, 2006, 18:22:22
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Decided I was being waaaay too careful with the car on sat at the Birthday Bash. Result is that I now hand a noticeable dent in one of the sills.
On a Monoque this would easilly be an MOT failure but I'm not sure f it is on this, any ideas?
I'm tempted to take the sill protector off, bash it to a shape that the protector hides, or even drill the dent and pullt it out,then put the protector back on.
If its an MOT failure, will a new sill do the job? Can you even get them?
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You should be able to get a non genuine outer sill from your local panel factor. Should be around £20 or £25 at the most. If you struggle, drop me a PM.
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you got pix richard?
simon
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Will get some tomorrow, might take th sill protector off at lunch time. If it wast for it pushing it out of line you'd never know.
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if its only dented it it shud be ok rich gen-X has had a big dent in her sill for 4 yrs now and never had any probs at all .
theres even a hole from when i kicked off axle stands and one went into the underside of the sill
simon
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Assuming that you have a separate chassis (ladder or back bone etc.) then a damaged sill should not be a problem as it is not structural.
They could however fail it on 'sharp edges'.
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theres no hole, just a dent. You've all said what I was thinking though so thanks guys.
Rich