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Moving the arch liner
« on: November 19, 2011, 11:38:15 pm »
I want to remove the crud that's supposed to build up behind the arch liner. On the ED30, the side sill is screwed in over the liner. If I remove this screw, I still can't bend the arch liner out from behind the sill.

Do I need to remove the screw from the top of the arch liner? Am trying to do this without having to take the wheel off. 

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Re: Moving the arch liner
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2011, 01:22:07 am »
Small hands needed but I did mine OK. 3 yes = CRUD

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Re: Moving the arch liner
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2011, 06:26:48 am »
How did you do it?

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Re: Moving the arch liner
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2011, 07:58:20 am »
Didnt know ED30 was different :surprised: All I had to do was remove the 6/8 screws holding the liner in place
 and slide it forwards.
revealing the recess which was full of hard packed crud. Hosepipe and paintbrush soon got rid of this

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Re: Moving the arch liner
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2011, 08:20:48 am »
I think you will have to take the wheel off Stealth in order to get to all the screws!

At least you can give it a good clean with the wheel off  :happy2:

....and yes, I had a fair bit of the crud packed in there near the sill.

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Re: Moving the arch liner
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2011, 09:02:43 am »
Need the wheel off to get to all the screws on the arch liner, I've only done the drivers side when I done the dv still got to do the passenger side. Don't take long and will probably be easier without the wheel in the way

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Re: Moving the arch liner
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2011, 10:43:23 am »
Okay cool. Was hoping to get away without taking the wheel off. Will have a bash next weekend.

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Re: Moving the arch liner
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2011, 01:45:19 pm »
I removed the wheels to get to all the screws, removed the liner, cleaned the compacted mud/ crap then painted the inside of the lip with smootrite to help stop the rust problem.
The mk4s had a similar problem but there's were due to a foam pad which stopped the plastic arch rubbing on the panel, this held moisture and it was recommended to trim a couple of inches off where it sat into the inner lip. When i removed the liner i found my mk5 had the same foam so trimmed this, along with the hammerite i'm hoping i wont have the rust problem?