G Pur Rear Doors

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Gcouture
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 Hi All

Im a newbie on the forum.

I have a g500 2005, and am looking to install some G Pur rear doors.   Does anyone know where I can find some?  Or is anyone breaking a car with some?

Tks

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It's not possible to install double doors on a G with a single. The hinge support is all wrong

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 Hi there

i know it wont be straight forward, but anything is possible.

Anyone with the Pur doors looking to a go to a good home, let me know and we can discuss....

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 any piccys of your G 500, and why do you want the twin doors, there not that practical givn the width of th rear door on G's !

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You are going to have to do a serious bit of cutting and welding to be able to hang an additional door. Not many people would want to do that to a 2005 G500.

The ex MOD armoured G500s that Jacksons were selling had the PUR rear doors but these would have been a factory option. I don't know of anyone who has retro fitted them.

If you are serious then I am sure MB will sell you a set of doors. 

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To begin with try removing the interior trim where the top door hinge would be - it's possible the mounting points are there if you're lucky.
You are also going to have to relocate the spare tyre on either the swing out carrier or inside unless you go commando:o

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if you are only a few hours from me i am sure you could pop over to turkey and get it done..... there are a few old ex gas company G's out there with bran doors that would love a swap !!!

designed and built in turkey, take a look ;

http://www.sahibinden.com/ilan/vasita-arazi-suv-pick-up-mercedes-benz-20...

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   Why would anyone want a 280 looking like a 55 .... ???? 

  

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Most people wouldn't know the difference in Chelsea and better fuel consumption, just:)

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some people are happy with the looks alone... [plus the fact that a G55 would cost i excess of 200,000 euros !!!!! imagine the owners status factor when travelling up the bosphorus fred!]

rgds hus

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 White elephant ?

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 possibly a pink Elephant.

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you guys are confused i think...

you must mean spearmint rhino !!

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a few of those in indonesia as well..
there's a very good reason why they all have dark tinted windows, they don't want you to see the interior.  :)

the exterior upgrades alone probably cost more than the original vehicle, if done using original parts..

and he needs new headlights, AMG exhaust tips, windscreen with the rain sensor blackout in the middle, proper spare tire decal, and updated thicker wiper stalks

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H Gcouture,

What you'll have to do is the following I think:

1. The left hand rear external panel remains the same (hinge points are the same as the standard door for the double door)
2. The right hand rear external panel need to come out and you'll have to find one from old army stock that has the two holes in it for the hinges of the right hand rear door. Also, needless to say, you'll have to reinforce the right rear where the hinges hang. If you can't find a replacement panel, you'll have to do a bit of fabrication (by the looks of things, not over-Worldly difficult).
3. In the centre of the of the door frame of the car, you'll have to fit (and again reinforce) space for where the catches of the doors attach to the car.
4. Last and not least, you'll have to find two rear doors - not an easy task, but they do come up on German/Austrian/Swiss eBay occasionally. They are usually secondhand and require work around the bottom (same problems as sometimes with the single doors).

All the latches/catches for the doors aren't that difficult to get hold of as they come from the Mercedes van parts bin, but you might have an issue or two with the doors themselves. If you're good at steelwork/bodywork, it isn't that difficult a conversion as most would have thought.

Good luck,
Phileas

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hi ph , i think you have just put him off the whole idea !! [ and me too at that matter...]

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Gcouture......are you anything to do with Gcouture....?

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this thing has the twin door rear access and is a turbo diesel too
though there is no evidence of this conversion.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-G-Class-Wagen-Wagon-Diesel-4x4-LHD-no...

one slight drawback is the trip to Spain and the long slow return journey

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 Hi Guys

thanks for all your comments.....

As phileas pointed out i suspect the hardest thing to do is to actually find the damn doors....

Mercedes want silly money, 

My motivation is to make my G as unique as possible.....but in a tasteful way......and naturally the simple stuff is never easy to do.....

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some 461 barn doors on geman ebay at the moment.... expensive though, though very new looking, i worked out other than the doors around £1000 or parts and labour , (free if you can do yourself) is required