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WHITEY_ · Apr 10th, 2008, 08:53 PM

The S spoiler is a direct(ish) replacement if you have the optional chilli pack spoiler (the small ones found on the ones and coopers). I put an S spoiler on a few days ago - You have to lift the hatch and pull off two plastic caps (one on in each top corner) then unbolt a nut on each side. Thats the easy bit done, now comes the hard part

. With the chilli spoiler, as well as being bolted on, its stuck onto the roof with, what looks like tiger seal (like a double sided adhesive tape), probably for water leakage reasons - you have to get a thin flat head screwdriver or similar to prize the spoiler up, like you would with a crowbar...so you can cut away the adhesive. It's a bit of a fiddly task and its best to have 2 people do this like I did - one to hold the spoiler up and one to cut away the adhesive, and remember to have a cloth or something padded underneath the screwdriver so you don't damage the paintwork...too much. I got a few slight nicks :S. The hardest bit is right at the beginning prizing the spoiler up, once you've cut away one side of the spoiler the rest is reasonably easy - you can just score down the middle section until you get to the other side. When at the opposite side to which you started at you only need to roughly score around the edges of the spoiler adhesive - then you can use the whole spoiler as a handle to twist the last bit off. You gotta be rough and gentle :P. Once the spoiler is off you'll have little bits of the adhesive sealant still stuck on the paint above the top brake light you can rub and peel most of this off but you might want to get a hairdryer and heat it up as it comes off easier like this. Now to fit the S spoiler at last, it should have the bolts and old sealant on the two 'feet' of the spoiler - leave the sealant as it is and just use the nuts that were used on the chilli spoiler to bolt the spoiler on, fini! p.s. the old sealant on the S spoiler probably won't be sticky anymore (mine wasn't) but as long as you bolt it on tight enough it'll be fine and still work as a water seal.

Apr 10th, 2008, 08:53 PM	#12
WHITEY_ The White Stuff My Classifieds Join Date: May 2007 Location: Reading Local Time: 10:58 AM Posts: 91 Offline	The S spoiler is a direct(ish) replacement if you have the optional chilli pack spoiler (the small ones found on the ones and coopers). I put an S spoiler on a few days ago - You have to lift the hatch and pull off two plastic caps (one on in each top corner) then unbolt a nut on each side. Thats the easy bit done, now comes the hard part . With the chilli spoiler, as well as being bolted on, its stuck onto the roof with, what looks like tiger seal (like a double sided adhesive tape), probably for water leakage reasons - you have to get a thin flat head screwdriver or similar to prize the spoiler up, like you would with a crowbar...so you can cut away the adhesive. It's a bit of a fiddly task and its best to have 2 people do this like I did - one to hold the spoiler up and one to cut away the adhesive, and remember to have a cloth or something padded underneath the screwdriver so you don't damage the paintwork...too much. I got a few slight nicks :S. The hardest bit is right at the beginning prizing the spoiler up, once you've cut away one side of the spoiler the rest is reasonably easy - you can just score down the middle section until you get to the other side. When at the opposite side to which you started at you only need to roughly score around the edges of the spoiler adhesive - then you can use the whole spoiler as a handle to twist the last bit off. You gotta be rough and gentle :P. Once the spoiler is off you'll have little bits of the adhesive sealant still stuck on the paint above the top brake light you can rub and peel most of this off but you might want to get a hairdryer and heat it up as it comes off easier like this. Now to fit the S spoiler at last, it should have the bolts and old sealant on the two 'feet' of the spoiler - leave the sealant as it is and just use the nuts that were used on the chilli spoiler to bolt the spoiler on, fini! p.s. the old sealant on the S spoiler probably won't be sticky anymore (mine wasn't) but as long as you bolt it on tight enough it'll be fine and still work as a water seal.