Quote Originally Posted by Coldcomfort View Post
That looks fantastic..... From one extreme to the other.... The rusty bolt thing is a bit of a worry though!! Or is that just a "its been on the beach" thing??

Well yes i do like to do the beach trips, but its pretty much the way the GUs are designed, all the mud,sand and water ends up sitting in the bottom of the front gaurds, this is also a common place to find rust.

The bottom two gaurd bolts not only see all this muck, but the threads protrude through the bottom of the captive nuts in the sill, and so are exposed to "everything", the first time i removed these bolts the bolt heads snapped off (i thought, no big deal on a old car)

So I replaced them all with new bolts, and 12 months later when i went to remove them again (after the roll), they snapped off again, its only the very bottom 2 bolts that are a problem, but i thought i may as well replace "all" of the gaurd bolts with stainless, only because they came in a box of 50 or so.









Before i put the front passenger seat in, i fitted this folding meal tray id removed from a kia carnival, it has its own gas strut, so you just pull it and it pops up, push it down and it stays in the stow away position.










Seems to hold a fair bit of weight, more than enough for what my daughter will ever put on it, food, drinks, drawing, dvd player etc.