Please can you give honest opinion on this arch i have had fitted as it was a cheap panel and i keep hearing bad reports thanks in advance
on the left the lines match up nicely, looks like its been well fitted. the crap panels can be fitted ok, it just takes more work to fit them!
get in your arch with a torch, see how its fitted in the hard to see areas, this will show the true work of the fitter imo. and as @Fronkjunior said the shut lines will tell all!
I wouldn't worry, it looks fine, when people moan its mostly about the extra work it takes to fit them, cheaper ones might be thinner but they are a lot cheaper. Its done its job and i bet its 100 x better than it was with holes and rust in it
Stop worrying Ken, it looks fine and when the rest of the van's done it'll look like its original. All the moaning about 'cheap' panels is because of the fit not the steel. It isn't a very good colour match though, maybe you should paint it again. Next time you see the van close the door and see if the shut lines are good.
Looks awesome to me fella and who cares about the 'cheap' panel thing anyway, metals metal and as long as the bus is on the road, eventually, happy days
Wrong, the steel is so bendy and weak you'd think it was built from lead sheet except that it'll be rusting within a day. Sorry, but these arches are awful, I remove "old" rusty ones all the time - they fall apart, badly pressed and the fit is down to pure luck as they're all different shapes.
They serve a purpose and for that they are fine, but nowhere near as good as original, any arch needs to be manipulated to achieve good panel gaps so the key is to have the adjacent panels to line everything up
Ken it looks a damn sight better than a repo arch I've had fitted incorrectly by a welder, I'm still trying to drum up the cash to have it moved. I think it looks fine, but the proofs in the pudding so to speak when you've got your door shut.
I've got one of these Marmitety arches fitted to mine. It looks gash as the panel gaps are all wrong.
