exchanging front wing on R19 ph2 - Retro-Renault

**hooverphonique** · 4th September 2008, 12:10 PM

how much work is involved to do this? do i have to remove the bumber, etc?

**Matt16v** · 4th September 2008, 12:35 PM

Yeah i think you do if i remember rightly, and undo the bolts the hold the bonnet on as they go through the wing. To be honest, i wouldn't say it's a lot of work, its just very fiddly and will take you a while thats all.

Remember, patience is a virtue!!

**The T.I.B.** · 4th September 2008, 12:40 PM

Should take about 20 minutes.

Remove the wheel arch liner
Undo the two 10mm nuts inside the wing
Undo the 10mm bolts you can see along the top of the wing and loosen (don't necessarily remove) the two 13mm bonnet hinge bolts.
Undo the bumper on that side and pull it away slightly (remove the whole bumper if you prefer). Also undo the grille part on that side.
Loosen or remove the side skirt
Remove the indicator

Refitting the the reverse of removal

**hooverphonique** · 4th September 2008, 12:50 PM

thanks.. sounds like an easy job.. the arch liner is attached using some sort of clips, right? how do they come off?

**Matt16v** · 4th September 2008, 12:56 PM

Using the lesser known 'pull it as hard as you can' method! Saying that, when i removed mine i didnt have to get it back on!!

**The T.I.B.** · 4th September 2008, 01:03 PM

Just pull the 5 clips to remove them, and push them back in. Sometimes a large screwdriver or claw hammer can help. (the bottom clip you can actually push out from behind

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**psgold67** · 4th September 2008, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by hooverphonique

thanks.. sounds like an easy job.. the arch liner is attached using some sort of clips, right? how do they come off?

i only managed to get three out of five off, the other two pulled throught the liner hole :-)

no damage to liner or clips and once it was off the clips were removed okay and re-used, it was just the build up of crap round them that stopped them coming off

one other thing, if you have mudflaps on the wing you need to take this off to get to the front of the sideskirt

Paul

**The T.I.B.** · 4th September 2008, 11:14 PM

"Talk about mudflaps, my girl's got 'em"
- quote?

**Neal** · 5th September 2008, 06:38 AM

That's Spinal Tap, from the song 'Big Bottom' I believe

**The T.I.B.** · 5th September 2008, 07:24 AM

Neal wins

**hooverphonique** · 8th September 2008, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by psgold67

i only managed to get three out of five off, the other two pulled throught the liner hole :-)
Paul

i only managed to get 3 of them off as well, the 2 last ones ended up being in 2 parts.. anyway, the wing was exchanged thursday night, took a lot longer than 20 mins though...

cheers..

mojomoh · 9th September 2008, 05:07 AM

Is the bottom of the wing not welded? Seems to be on my cabbie.

**The T.I.B.** · 9th September 2008, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by mojomoh

Is the bottom of the wing not welded? Seems to be on my cabbie.

The cabriolet wing is different to all other 19 16vs, as is the lack of side skirts

rag top · 9th September 2008, 09:47 AM

cabby wings not welded at the top of the sill ,when the wing liner is removed if you dig all the muck and crap out you find a stud with a 10mm nut that sticks straight up of the top of the sill.the (weld) along the sill at the bottom of the wing is just mastic to try and stop water ingression.