Frontera B spare wheel carrier

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Ok a bit of a ramble first.

Was working way out in the sticks in Norfolk, a cold and lonley place.

It was a 30 mile drive to work in the depths of winter, the rain was lashing down, the roads were flooded, there was spray washing over the bonnet. finaly I pull into the work car park, there were no lights, as black as your hat with a 10 foot drop down into the tidal esutry.

Spotted in the dark a likely looking parking space, so reversed into said space with the thougt of a nice hot cuppu to recover from the jouney CRUNCH!!

It started to become aparent that the parking space was ocupied......Bugger, not good.

On closer investigation there was a black rather crumpled looking Suzuki Leana.... Bugger Bugger.

£1500 worth of damage and not even bruised the paint on my plasic spare tyre cover.

Luckily he had his handbrake on else I would have pushed his car over the keyside onto the two million quid catamaran that we had only just finnished building and would have sunk it, possibly have affecting my noclaims.

So question, how do I remove the bleedin thing so I can see out of the back??? just seen a pic of a B series with the spare on the roof and looks the business.

[l.c]

Take the spare wheel off and you're left with the mounting bracket. Take this off and you're left with the holes in the tailgate.

Liberal amounts of filler followed by flatting back and then spray.

Sounds easy but it'll be a pain. Just get a front spot off and old scrapped fronty, stick it on the roof and wire it into the reversing relay. Et voila, a rather dazzling reversing light.

[Drift]

Just pop the bolts back into the holes painted

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Thanks peeps,


Any idea if the bolts thread in to captive nuts in the door or do I need a spanner on the inside, havent worked out how to get the door panel off yet.

[Drift]

Mine where held with a silly security bolt, but you can get vice grips on them and they come out easy, they are captive nuts.

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Thanks Drift, I will keep a box of plasters handy when I try.