it'll only take five mins

[jellybaby]

Am i a fool or what, painting my bonnet the other day i suddenly thought i would take my bumper off and give it a quick sand and prep how long could it take not more than a few mins. three hours later and lots of WD40 i had one removed bumper and some scraped knuckles. just wondering how many other jobs take the preverbial few mins and end up taking hours.

[Drift]

Welcome to the Frontera

[jellybaby]

yep i really love the feeling you get when you snap a bolt off in a captive nut

[Drift]

Its only happened to me about 4 times in the last couple of weeks

[Road Hog]

Lurv this thread PMSL its true so true

[weave67]

Well i dont think i have ever done a job on mine without breaking a bolt or cutting some part of my anatomy

[Red Oktober]

I've lost count at how many times my truck has bitten me

[alex]

Its bites far worse than its bark....

[woodwizzard]

[Trugga]

Miraculously, when I swapped a 12 year old enging out for a new one, I only snapped one bolt - one of the pair that hold the power steering reservoir bracket onto the inner wing. - That was well lucky.

Lawrence

[frontydan]

But if everything on them was straight forward and not taxing would this not be called the "Touareg owners group" !!!!
As i have a company car which is a sad passat i love the fact that i can tinker and the bugger will bite back.

[CJ]

I had to grind off all the bolts on my front bumper - and the captive nuts.

Now I have brand new ones in it is a joy to take it off. I do so regularly just to remind myself how much better it is now.

Satin black on the bumper - love it.

[Red Oktober]

i've lost count at the times my front bumper has been on and off ....but it's easy peasy to do

also removed my rear axle,fuel tank





the rear end was up high enough to just roll the axle back in what a walk in the park that was to do

[andysd1]

when working on the fronty i always keep a set of easy outs about, you know it makes sense

[huggy]

last night i went to spend an hour at my mates to refit an lpg tank and petrol tank,3 hours later we got 2 straps on on the lpg tank,so 1 strap and the petrol tank to go

[Red Oktober]

[Sir-Doris]

Pretty much everything that Iv ever tried to do on the frontera that was supposed to only be a few minutes/hours has turned into hours/days.

[huggy]

[jellybaby]

i love the fact that my old fronty can be tinkerd with by myself who's no expert mechanic and with forums like this how far can i go wrong and if it does i just fix it with a hammer.

[Road Hog]

I have noticed a trend among the potteries members,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they all seem to have a 6 hammer tool kit.