Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

Vortex wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 2:33 pm Hi #ITCaptainSlow - best shots I have are taken by the garage from under the car. This is from underneath facing forwards showing both left and right front wheels and the position of the objects needing attention, which the garage that said was front subframe - have they mislead me? (Those bolts in the images are the front subframe mounting points).

V. ROVER 45 Front SubFrame Rust.JPG

This is why we've had these panels tooled

Bung loads of cavity wax in afterwards !

This is how they fit together

Hi there. If there’s a little break through there then the chances are it’ll be thin in the nearby area. I’d suggest a decent mobile welder could work out metal thickness, chop out and weld in a good sized patch to get back to solid metal. I think this is eminently saveable. Tricky bit is finding a local welder!

I’ve repaired other cars with far worse I suspect. If you can then flood the far side with wax it’ll last an age! Matthew