Interior/Exterior Removal of Side Scuttels
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Open hood...Then using some kind of prying tool or your hand you have to pull up on the trim piece above the scuttle. Its a little hard to get to come up but it can be done, using the prying tool helps alot. Now remove the light by pressing the white tabs, if you get one out, the lower tab the top will follow. Now disconnect the light and set that to the side. Look down in the compartment you should see several white nylon fastners. These are tricky using your trim tool or what ever you have to pry with, gently pry the top from the outside. You will here some cracking but its the fastners coming loose. Repeat until you have them all out. Theres one at the very bottom along with a long piece of plastic that's attached to the scuttle. To get at that piece and free the scuttle you have to pull back the cars trim a little. After you do that wrap on. Hoped that helped a little. The trim tools I purchased from Harbor Freight, if your going to do alot of work on your car these are a must. It prevents alot of maring
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Open hood...Then using some kind of prying tool or your hand you have to pull up on the trim piece above the scuttle. Its a little hard to get to come up but it can be done, using the prying tool helps alot. Now remove the light by pressing the white tabs, if you get one out, the lower tab the top will follow. Now disconnect the light and set that to the side. Look down in the compartment you should see several white nylon fastners. These are tricky using your trim tool or what ever you have to pry with, gently pry the top from the outside. You will here some cracking but its the fastners coming loose. Repeat until you have them all out. Theres one at the very bottom along with a long piece of plastic that's attached to the scuttle. To get at that piece and free the scuttle you have to pull back the cars trim a little. After you do that wrap on. Hoped that helped a little. The trim tools I purchased from Harbor Freight, if your going to do alot of work on your car these are a must. It prevents alot of maring
I see 6 blue fasteners that must be squeezed to release plus at least 1 white fastener. I can't for the life of me see how you can get all those to release without them popping back in to place as you work on each one.
EDIT: all it took was for me to write that frustrated post to turn around and figure it out. Lol!
Last edited by TerminalVelocity; 07-30-2013 at 07:32 PM.
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Thanks for the write up! Second one was much easier once I realized how much effort I needed to release the panel. One problem I have is that 2 of the clips on my '14 CM slid off the trim panel instead of pulling off the frame, so now I need to find a trim tool to remove and replace them. FML.
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This did it for me. Got in there and it popped right off after days of worrying what to do.
http://m.harborfreight.com/5-piece-a...not%20provided
http://m.harborfreight.com/5-piece-a...not%20provided
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Great write up!!! Made it so easy. I know most people tend to black out their MINIs. I like a little additional (plastic, yes) chrome. Next is brake ducts. Just don’t know yet if I want the ones with the LED DRLs or without.
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Great write up!!! Made it so easy. I know most people tend to black out their MINIs. I like a little additional (plastic, yes) chrome. Next is brake ducts. Just don’t know yet if I want the ones with the LED DRLs or without.
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this helped get the first parts going; I went super lazy and instead of putting stress on plastic parts I just took a razor knife to the clips- At $0.67 from outmotoring I figured who cares. Ive had the clip holders on the part brake way too many times, or once getting it back in after struggling and the clip going in and out of the mount hole a dozen times (which is what was happening yesterday) the part ends up rattling because the clip lost its rgidity.
so, plasti-dipping the parts today,
thanks for showing the steps, its super easy to do
so, plasti-dipping the parts today,
thanks for showing the steps, its super easy to do
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I recently removed mine and sprayed them in Anthracite plastidip. TO remove the clips easily, use a 1/4" breaker bar with an 8MM socket. Place the socket over the pointy end of the clip and press gently. The socket will squeeze the tab on the clip so it pops out very easily. Start at the top. you can then use a 6MM to free the two clips you can reach holding on the fender flare. Finally, once I removed the first scuttle, I trimmed the 1" long locating pin under the fender to 1/2" so that I needed far less movement in the fender flare to refit the scuttle. For the second one, I used a loose hacksaw blade that I bent slightly to again trim the pin length to about 1/2" BEFORE I removed it to make removal and replacement much easier on the fender flare.
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