Wind deflector fixings.

[simonbuk]

My wind deflector became a bit wobbly, realised one of the bolts was lose and couldn't make it right again. Should there be a captive nut hiding behind something ?!

Tried to remove some trim but it looks like it's quite well hidden.

[Saltire]

Simon

In my experience it’s a nightmare. I fitted mine when I had all the trim stripped off the back panel after repairing one of the tonneau catches. The fixings are scrivets, not proper screws and nuts, so it’s impossible IME to get them properly tight. I subsequently looked at Kathryn’s, because I was worried it was my ham-fistedness in replacing the tonneau wall trim, and hers was exactly the same

I have been mulling over a solution, but not come up with anything yet, so if you find a solution, please publicise

[simonbuk]

So you at least got the trim off then ? I haven't got that far !! Couldn't get the long piece off that goes the width of the car so I assume I have to start taking the side bits off that go around the seat belt mounts ?

I'm having another look later this morning.....

[roy666]

Ok - so its alright for 'Gods' and "Fanatics" to know all about the high brow stuff... but us mere mortals sometimes just don't have a clue. Wind deflector??... what wind deflector??

[Rambo]

Ok - so its alright for 'Gods' and "Fanatics" to know all about the high brow stuff... but us mere mortals sometimes just don't have a clue. Wind deflector??... what wind deflector??

Try the search facility. You will come up with over 440 references

Even a lowly "MacAffro" can manage that

[roy666]

Thanks Ram - got it. In fact I have one fitted and it came with the car; but the reading the narrative it sounds like some other piece of wizardry.. so i thought great, something on the windscreen top that flips up or something. Doh! M

[Rambo]

One of the neatest wind deflectors was developed by another of our Scottish inventors (Andrew Ennis) It was a retractable gauze type mesh that worked on a roller blind type system. JohnW and Par have them fitted to their cars

Another neat type was the tiny perspex screen that fitted between the roll bars ( Kuching, LGM etc...) I think Dapinky has one of these ??

Me, I have nothing as as still have a full set and a half of wild hair, hence my MacAffro status

[Kathryn]

It should just screw in to the holes where the map pocket is attached. I managed one side easily but have a subwoofer in the way on the other side so had to bend the bracket round it, so mines always been wobbly (and wonky). The intention was to remove the subwoofer as my brother wanted it and fix the issue but that never happened. I was more worried about the wonkiness than the wobble but it is good to know others have wobbly wind deflectors too!

[Kathryn]

Me, I have nothing as as still have a full set and a half of wild hair, hence my MacAffro status

Grow your hair any longer and it will blow across your face than you'll need one.

[alan e]

Just been for a drive along the seafront to test mine and i can report my wind deflector works fine.

[Saltire]

So you at least got the trim off then ? I haven't got that far !! Couldn't get the long piece off that goes the width of the car so I assume I have to start taking the side bits off that go around the seat belt mounts ?

I'm having another look later this morning.....

Taking the trim piece off is straightforward, although a pain. There are screws on the hood storage compartment side, and also fixings under the carpet on the cockpit side. There are also self tappers in the corners next to the seat belt covers. IIRC, I didn’t have to remove the seatbelt covers (though as it happened I had the drivers side off anyway, to fit a trickle charge point).

The problem is that that the bulkhead between cockpit and hood stowage area is double-skinned, so I couldn’t see a way of getting a nut and bolt fixing through. Actually, it struck me that what I needed was something like a hollow door fixing, because of the limited clearance inside the firewall. Still puzzling about it, but since I have the entire dash out at present, it’s not top of my list

[simonbuk]

Well realised that you don't really need to remove anything from the back. You just need to pull the carpet off at the top. Looks like you just have to drill a couple of holes and insert these things -

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Looks like you must just drill holes in the rear panel and push these in ? They can't be fitted as standard.

I guess the only way to try and keep them in place is to glue them in ?