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- al cope
- Member Since: 02 Jan 2019
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Roof Rail fitting
Following ion from posts in one of the other threads, here are some pics and tips from me fitting the roof rails. These are Genuine LR rails with Ditch finishers (all from Dan @ Duckworths). I went for the genuine items as the rails generally on fleebay dont come with the ditch finishers, and front fitting in the cheap ones looks like it might be plastic, whereas the LR one is metal.
So, here goes:
3 boxes of parts
Tools needed - T40 Torx bit, some plastic trim tools, and a hair dryer (the paint brush is just to brush any bits/dust out from under the old rails once removed)
Use the trim tools to remove the existing plastic covers - this is the front one just taken off, but you then have to remove the plastic bits you can see - these are fixed with double sided tape:
Take the 6 bolts out that you find under the trim:
And here is a back one off:
You will find sticky pads and 3M tape as well as clips have been used to hold the exiting trim on. I found the hairdryer was the best thing to get the sticky off, and then some surgical spirit, as the 2 3M cleaning pads supplied are so small that wont clean very much at all. Cleaned front bits here:
Once all clean you can start fitting the new ditch finisher trims - do the front long one first, getting the front edge under the rubber windscreen trim.
Then do the back one. A tip here is ignore the order in which you clip the trim down on the LR fitting guide. I did this and bent the back inner clip, but you can't then get to it easily as the 3M tape has grabbed. For the second side I just started with the rear 2 clips and worked forward - much easier.
here is the ditch trim fitted:
Once this is done you fit the very front fixings, they are handed (L & R) so check, as here:
Then fit the ruber trims to the rear part of the rails (just pushes on) and then fit the rails, 2 loose bolts (supplied) at the front, 4 captive (by the seals) at the rear.
tighten up to the spec'd torque, and then fit the bolt covers - and you're done for that one:
Then go do the other one - same process - took me about an hour and half, was taking it slowly.
Finished job:
And finally - I was hoping to keep the parts I'd removed in case I wanted to take the rails back off, but Russ had commented about the platic parts used to fit them being brittle and breaking - he was right, so whilst I have the glossy bits the bits underneath are in peices and in the bin.
Hope this helps
Al
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- TechnoTurkey
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Hi,
good write up
and always good to have pictures 
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- TechnoTurkey
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Just done mine, thank you for the pictures - in conjunction with the instructions you really don't need anything else
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