I got a tap and die set the other weekend and threaded the plate I made for the front door hinge. Amazing what you can do when you have the proper tools.Hanging doors on your own is not much fun and the drivers door turned into a nightmare. I could get the bolts into the bottom hinge, but could not get one of the top ones in. After an hour of trying to do it I realised the threads were knackered, and got the tap and die set out. Once it was re-threaded it was easy.The back door was easy, and after a bit of moving around got the gaps to where I was happy.

With all that done, I got the boot lid out of the shed and stripped all the hardware off it. With the tarpaulin up to stop some of the dust I closed the door and spent the next few hours cleaning the paint off. There was a deep patch of filler too which I ground out to replace. I’d had enough by then and cleaned up till next week. The next week I sanded it all smooth with the air sander then started filling. There were a lot of fold marks in the metal, and quite a low spot on the left corner. While the filler was drying I got one of the wings out and started stripping it out. There was quite a nasty crease in this one, so I started to hammer it out. With another few low spots filled, I started taking the paint off with the grinder. It was getting late, so I sanded the boot again and called it a night. Needs more filler on the low spot in the corner, but not bad.