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Old 20-02-2011, 06:29 PM   #1
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Default How do you remove the front nose cone on a AUII XR8

How easy is it or how do you remove the front nose cone on the AU II XR8,
Yesterday I had an unfortunete incident where some fella thought it would be wise to reverse his Toyota Landcruiser into the front of my XR8
Anyway I have to get it repaired and was wondering if it is an easy job to remove as I would rather take it of and drop it at the panel shop rather then have the whole car there ?.

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Old 20-02-2011, 07:03 PM   #2
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Can't help you with how to do it but I wouldnt mind knowing myself, I have to take mine off to remove some nudge bar brackets.
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Old 20-02-2011, 09:04 PM   #3
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1. Remove the undertray from the front (combination of phillips head screws and 7mm hex head screws)
2. Undo the scrivets and screws from both inner guards.
3. Undo the 13mm nuts that you should now be able to access having loosened the plastic inner guards - just pull the plastic back, and you should be able to see the nuts.
4. Remove the bulb from the indicators.
5. From under the front of the car, loacte the 2 x 10mm nuts/bolts on each side holding the front bar onto a metal bracket
6. With the bonnet up, undo all pop-screws/scrivets and nuts that look like they hold anything to do with the front bar on (no need to undo ones holding headlights in though).

You should now be able to remove the bar.

Austin - I reckon you should be able to get to those brakets just by undoing the undertray. Put the ute up on ramps, and you should be able to access the bolts (I recal that ragtop fitted his without removing the front bar).
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Old 20-02-2011, 09:37 PM   #4
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1. Remove the undertray from the front (combination of phillips head screws and 7mm hex head screws)
2. Undo the scrivets and screws from both inner guards.
3. Undo the 13mm nuts that you should now be able to access having loosened the plastic inner guards - just pull the plastic back, and you should be able to see the nuts.
4. Remove the bulb from the indicators.
5. From under the front of the car, loacte the 2 x 10mm nuts/bolts on each side holding the front bar onto a metal bracket
6. With the bonnet up, undo all pop-screws/scrivets and nuts that look like they hold anything to do with the front bar on (no need to undo ones holding headlights in though).

You should now be able to remove the bar.

Austin - I reckon you should be able to get to those brakets just by undoing the undertray. Put the ute up on ramps, and you should be able to access the bolts (I recal that ragtop fitted his without removing the front bar).
I had to remove the whole bar and the honeycombe stuff behind that to bolt my nudge bar on. it's a Gitsham
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Old 20-02-2011, 10:17 PM   #5
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1. Remove the undertray from the front (combination of phillips head screws and 7mm hex head screws)
2. Undo the scrivets and screws from both inner guards.
3. Undo the 13mm nuts that you should now be able to access having loosened the plastic inner guards - just pull the plastic back, and you should be able to see the nuts.
4. Remove the bulb from the indicators.
5. From under the front of the car, loacte the 2 x 10mm nuts/bolts on each side holding the front bar onto a metal bracket
6. With the bonnet up, undo all pop-screws/scrivets and nuts that look like they hold anything to do with the front bar on (no need to undo ones holding headlights in though).

You should now be able to remove the bar.

Austin - I reckon you should be able to get to those brakets just by undoing the undertray. Put the ute up on ramps, and you should be able to access the bolts (I recal that ragtop fitted his without removing the front bar).
Thank's JC, sounds very straight forward.
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Old 20-02-2011, 10:48 PM   #6
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Is there a bolt behind the number plate?
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Old 21-02-2011, 01:15 AM   #7
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Is there a bolt behind the number plate?
Not on the couple I've removed, but there is an indented/cone shaped bit there, so wouldn't surprise me if there was a bolt there on some.
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Old 21-02-2011, 11:15 AM   #8
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if he reversed into you you are better off taking the whole car in or you might end up with insurance dramas
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Old 21-02-2011, 04:58 PM   #9
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if he reversed into you you are better off taking the whole car in or you might end up with insurance dramas
Yeah I know I am just weighing up my option's, as I don't really want to take the whole car there as last time I had it there, on pick up obviously they like to wash the vehicles so they are nice and clean for the customer, but they need a leason in car washing as I spent a whole week afterward's with my Rotex detailing it getting all the scrathes/swirl's out of it from them washing it.
I will ask them if they don't mind not washing it afterward's but will have to wait and see what they say to that...
That's why I thought I might just take the nose cone of myself and get it to them.
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the problem there would be colour match they also paint a bit of the gaurd to blend it in
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Old 22-02-2011, 07:42 PM   #11
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the problem there would be colour match they also paint a bit of the gaurd to blend it in
Yeah I am aware of blending the door in as I had to have the LHS front panel resprayed a little while ago and it was blended into the front LHS door but the nose cone wasn't touched then, neither was the bonnet.
So I will just have to see what they say about it tomorrow.
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