Need a wrecked boot lid

[rickprice]

Folks,

I want to try something out on a boot lid but, for obvious reasons, do not want to cut into my own healthy boot as an experiment.

Where would a good place to source a cheap/free boot lid (ideally facelift - y2000 model)? It can be smashed in half for all I care, as long as half of it (n/s or o/s) is in 1 piece.

Any ideas - I live near Cambridge, if that helps.

Cheers,

Rich

[Colin RedGriff]

Try Douglas Valley - they break a lot of TVRs usually have several adds in the classified

[phillpot]

Colin RedGriff said:

Try Douglas Valley

But OP mentioned cheap !

[Colin RedGriff]

phillpot said:

Colin RedGriff said:

Try Douglas Valley

But OP mentioned cheap !

Sorry missed that bit

[Cider Andy]

There are at least three variants of the bootlid, depending on the age of the car. I think two of them are identical bar the corner where the hinge fits, but the 2000 model has a totally different lid.

[darkcat]

Do any of these varients fit properly??!!!

[S7Paul]

darkcat said:

Do any of these varients fit properly??!!!

Just what I was thinking! Mine sits at the right level on the passenger side, but the other side is considerably higher than the wing, with no obvious way of adjusting it - very annoying.

[Pacman1972]

rickprice said:

Folks,

I want to try something out on a boot lid but, for obvious reasons, do not want to cut into my own healthy boot as an experiment.

Go on admit - You want it for sledging

[ralphy12345]

S7Paul said:

Mine sits at the right level on the passenger side, but the other side is considerably higher than the wing, with no obvious way of adjusting it - very annoying.

Mine is exactly the same, higher on the o/s and really breaks the flowing line of the body.

R

[dog man]

Mine too. I see a lot with the same high right side

[darkcat]

yep same on mine.... must have been a slightly warped mould (if thats the right spelling)

the only way i can see to fix it would be some sort of double latch setup, one each side.

Edited by darkcat on Saturday 11th December 22:52

[pbaker43]

yep the same here, the boot lid sits higher on the right side. Is the gas strut fully compressed before the boot is shut hence this is pushing the righ side up?? Or is it as the others have said the quality control was in the pub at the time of manufacture.

[lesstatt]

Got to ask the question no one else has yet................. why, what are you trying out ?

[rickprice]

My old MX5 had a great bit of kit that mounted in the boot lid, on a mercury switch. When the boot lid opens, the whole boot is illuminated.

The wife's Lexus has lights on the side of the boot and what with all the junk in there, all you can see is shadows - hence the top lighting idea.

Chimaera boot:

I want to cut holes into it to see if I can mount boot lights into the edge nearest the latch, and run the wires inside the boot to the hinge and out again. Get a tip-switch or similar, and voila! I will be able to see into the boot at night.

I currently have a Stereo mounted inside an MDF box in the boot so I already have a couple of 12v Halogen lamps in there, but I'm thinking of taking out the amplifier and sub woofers (and with them the box), so will need a solution to the lighting thing.

I don't particularly want to 'have a go' on my boot, only to find out I can't do it, or I have f'ed up the hole, etc - meaning I have to take out a second mortgage for DVB.

So in summary, I want a bootlid that nobody (including SWMBO) will mind me cutting loads of holes in.

Make sense?

Anybody know of a knackered boot, ideally 2000, that is unloved and unwanted?

Rich