Mopar Muscle Association UK

As you can see from the picture below my £250 Grand Cherokee has a rusted out sill. Its due its MOT in December and I'm guessing it will fail on it. If I clean it up, fill it with bodge and paint it would the MOT man pick up on it and fail it?

And if I went down the road of doing it right what would be the best way of doing it? Trying to track down one in a Scrap Yard, (which could prove difficult) and cutting a patch out or just making a template and bashing a piece of metal to shape and welding it in? I'll be looking to sell it on after the Winter so I dont want it looking a mess.

For what its worth just weld a plate section on the sill.

For the MOT ( period )

Trigger_Andy wrote: Trying to track down one in a Scrap Yard, (which could prove difficult)

I doubt it, recon theres loads there

RayC wrote:

Trigger_Andy wrote: Trying to track down one in a Scrap Yard, (which could prove difficult)

I doubt it, recon theres loads there

yeah...all rusted out in the same place

Cheers for the constructive replied Guys! IS it an MOT issue? If not then I'm not so fussed.

Is it a common problem with them?

Could be Andy, if its a structural part of the body, dont know if the Cherokees have a seperate chassis. I think the MOT regs state any corrosion within 30cm of major suspension /steering is a fail. Looking at it id just weld a patch in and be done with it.

nope sorry to say it won't pass the MOT like that , if you do plate it up , make sure its welded all the way round & not just every inch or so . think i would be inclined to cut a piece out from a wrecked one , don't even have to be the same area either really , sill is the same the whole lenght

Easy fix andy just cut out and weld a patch on, easy peasy. easy patch to make out of a bit of steel.

OK, cheers for the replies guys.

Well thats my job for next week!

Week????//?


You can do that in a few hours im sure.


Hardest job is getting the motivation.

yeah won't take long , prolly more time to get the tools & welder out & clean it up ,

Arnt we all sad, knowing it will only take a little bit to fix that. comes from too much time in the garage.

yeah thats true

Couple of hours work,if there's anything to weld to

OK, when I said a week I meant sourcing a sill, traveling to pick it up, it will be around an 80 mile round trip. Bank Holiday today so all the breakers seem to be closed! Sourcing a Welder, beg borrow or steal! Sourcing the paint etc. Getting around to cutting the old one out and fitting the new one. A bit of filler, paint, lacquer.


That for me would be a week!