Leon Front Splitter, usual questions!

[psq43]

Ok, this has probably been asked at least 1000 times before, and despite searching, I still cant quite find the answer!

Lets suppose that on your day off, you drove off out somewhere, had a great day out, and then on your way out of the multi-storey, despite being careful, you mangaed to scag your leon's front splitter on the ground and pop out the two centre mountings!

So, on your next day off you decide to pop them back in! You may find this is much harder than it looks, or in my case, I was prob trying too hard using the wrong method!

Tryed to get under front end and using pliers, squeeze the two prongs together and slip the mounts back in. However, due to the gap available between the car and the floor this was a little tricky and cannot manage to squeeze the prongs together close enough to fit them back in!

Anyone managed to do this without needing to jack up front end and use lump hammer? Advice please?

 

[D8MNS]

yep all i do isgive it a good whack upwards

clicks back in place evertime ... bloody splitteres

 

[psq43]

MMM. would do but gave it hefty shove just now and did not go in but entire front bumper shook like it was about to fall off! lol Dont want to shove much harder in case I pop my headlamps out!!!!

 

[Craig Senior]

Dont want to shove much harder in case I pop my headlamps out!!!!

Reminds me of a girl I once knew

On a serious note, I have heard of people using a jack under the centre part of the splitter to get the pegs back in.

 

[stpete]

heat the pegs that stand up in the middle with missus/mums hair dryer, gently and plastic will soften and slips in a treat!

 

[psq43]

Resourceful bunch aint ya! should have own Le Mans team!

thanks for help all, will give it a lash!

 

[CupraR-Rog]

I have heard of people using a jack under the centre part of the splitter to get the pegs back in.

That's the method I use! Stops working after a while tho...

Come to think of it, I don't actually have a splitter on my car at the mo!! It's on the side of a road somewhere...

 

[MarkE]

Washing-up liquid.

There's no problem that a little lubrication doesn't sort out...

 

[Carr20vt]

Yep lubs and a soft hammer's the way to get it back on.

 

[Don]

Pure muscle. Works for me!

 

[neeleyveeley]

Good whack upward too from me, usually results in a grazed hand though and one full of grip too!

 

[keithrann]

I'm sure there's some inuendo with some of theseposts! Hahaha.

Mine hasn't fallen off yet but quarenteed it will do eventually.

 

[Awesome Kevin]

Come to think of it, I don't actually have a splitter on my car at the mo!! It's on the side of a road somewhere...

this is the approach i took..

actually, when i fit my r front bumper, it took me ages to get the splitter on, and it was off the car at the time too. upside down on a workbench and a big hammer sorted it in the end!

 

[jamie paton]

i used the jack and it was no problem, just do it gently and you cant go wrong.