Repairing the rear load area floor

Or "I only wanted to change the oil!"

Oil was found, filter dug out from the Box O' Spares kept for such occasions and the process completed without fuss or drama for once. Seeing as I was in my overalls, I decided I may as well give the old girl a bit of a clean out and set about it with the hoover. I opened the tailgate and climbed inside to fold the rear seats up, when CRUNCH.

There was that dreaded feeling under my knee as if I'd just knelt on a packet of Hob Nobs.

Knowing better than to ignore such crunching sounds, I tear off the trim strips and peel back the carpets and sound insulation to be met by the following:

Ugh. Exchange hoover for screwdriver and begin poking. Realise extent of problem and exchange screwdriver for steel-capped rigger boot and begin to kick holes in floor:

Exchange boot for angle grinder. No point in putting this off, so I decided to rip the entire floor panel out. Having not done this kind of thing for a while it's amazing how theraputic it can be to cut out huge swathes of corroded bodywork from a Land Rover...

And in less than an hour, there's a nice, neat(ish) singe hole instead of a dozen smaller, jagged ones... Note the standard Land Rover maintenance tools: a lump hammer and crow bar...

Now to make a nice new floor out of... something... (Note to self: think repair procedure through before cutting large hole in vehicle!)