how to remove plastic wheel arch protectors please?
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Hi all
I bought a Hyundai Elantra 2001 4 door recently as a workhorse, 22,900 miles on the clock from a 75 year old who owned it from new!
there is a little rust around the wheel arch areas. I want to nip it in the bud with some silver hammerite or can get a paint match aerosol from Halfords for £14. There are plastic wheel arch liners, are these generally easy to remove? does it take long ? or better just to leave them in place and try to paint around them? ideally I want to get all sides of the metal covered so I dont have to do it twice
Cheers
Robert
I bought a Hyundai Elantra 2001 4 door recently as a workhorse, 22,900 miles on the clock from a 75 year old who owned it from new!
there is a little rust around the wheel arch areas. I want to nip it in the bud with some silver hammerite or can get a paint match aerosol from Halfords for £14. There are plastic wheel arch liners, are these generally easy to remove? does it take long ? or better just to leave them in place and try to paint around them? ideally I want to get all sides of the metal covered so I dont have to do it twice
Cheers
Robert
bobbybo said:
Hi all
I bought a Hyundai Elantra 2001 4 door recently as a workhorse, 22,900 miles on the clock from a 75 year old who owned it from new!
there is a little rust around the wheel arch areas. I want to nip it in the bud with some silver hammerite or can get a paint match aerosol from Halfords for £14. There are plastic wheel arch liners, are these generally easy to remove? does it take long ? or better just to leave them in place and try to paint around them? ideally I want to get all sides of the metal covered so I dont have to do it twice
Cheers
Robert
Hi Robert
They will be screwed or clipped in place. Arch liners are normally a very tight/secure fit.
Once you have removed the fixings they will pull out.
I bought a Hyundai Elantra 2001 4 door recently as a workhorse, 22,900 miles on the clock from a 75 year old who owned it from new!
there is a little rust around the wheel arch areas. I want to nip it in the bud with some silver hammerite or can get a paint match aerosol from Halfords for £14. There are plastic wheel arch liners, are these generally easy to remove? does it take long ? or better just to leave them in place and try to paint around them? ideally I want to get all sides of the metal covered so I dont have to do it twice
Cheers
Robert
Hi Robert
They will be screwed or clipped in place. Arch liners are normally a very tight/secure fit.
Once you have removed the fixings they will pull out.
I'd recommend removing them, unless the design is perfect there's usually some crap collecting behind them which is probably causing further problems.
Mine are held on with a number of torx screws, I usually miss one or two when undoing them, but one you have undone most of them it's fairly obvious where is still attached.
Something like Kurust will "nip it in the bud" better than just paint
Mine are held on with a number of torx screws, I usually miss one or two when undoing them, but one you have undone most of them it's fairly obvious where is still attached.
Something like Kurust will "nip it in the bud" better than just paint
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