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14th January 2016, 10:54
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 1
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factory widening repair
hi guys!
i have a beautiful saxo vts tonic edition. it is beautiful and my girlfreind (the owner) an i love it. it is in our family for 3 years now and we have done 35.000 marvelous kilometers with it. but unfortunetaly the cars age starts to show.
the factory body widenings are starting to get loose (also on the doors).
can someone help me how to change the fittings/bolts/etc. to have a perfect look again?
thank you in advance!
balázs from hungary
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14th January 2016, 12:36
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Saxperience Addict
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 11,709
Car(s): A4 SE/A6 Le Mans
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You can either purchase a bag of clips and fit them back in, as they tend to get brittle and break off with time. Or your second option is to use an polyurethane based adhesive sealant such as tigerseal and glue them back on.
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14th January 2016, 13:52
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Saxperience Forum Bum
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Jarrow
Posts: 4,022
Car(s): 2003 Icelandic Grey 16v VTR
1991 Daihatsu GTti
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14th January 2016, 16:20
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Frequent Poster
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Bridgend, South Wales
Posts: 948
Car(s): Mk1 VTS, FF BG 182
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mickswan
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Will they fit the lot Mick? Panels/trim?
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14th January 2016, 16:44
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Little Mill, South Wales
Posts: 7,547
Car(s): Mondeo ST TDCI
Saxo VTS
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My panels have started to come loose, turns out the actual brackets on the car have gone awol.
Going to Tigerseal mine on as Manu said, I believe most people do this as it saves the hastle, the downside being that getting them back off should you need to at some point will likely result in paint damage.
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14th January 2016, 21:49
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Established Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: King's lynn
Posts: 2,073
Car(s): Turbocharged vtr
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Originally Posted by SimpleJoee
Will they fit the lot Mick? Panels/trim?
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No them ones won't fit the front wings, tried and failed that, I find these ones are best for everything
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CITROEN-SA...UxVOIj8drmch3Q
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24th January 2016, 19:47
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Saxperience Forum Bum
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Stoke-on-trent
Posts: 2,640
Car(s): Mk5 Golf GTTDI
Mk2 VTR Project
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In my experience clips alone don't usually do the job and the kit is still a little bit loose so I use a combination of the clips and a few blobs of tigerseal (not too much or you will never get it off again lol)
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