After talking to a couple of people last weekend - I thought I'd reveal my tip for refitting the interior to the GS.
When I took it out to remove the carpets and sound insulation after it got wet, it was easy. unbolt the front seats, unclip the wires, deatbelt holders off carpet trims out, rear seat pops off with a couple of wooden kitchen spatulas, remove a few bits of plastic trim, and it all slides out.
Putting it back revealed the true extent of Italian precision engineering.
Pretty much none of the holes in the carpet lined up with the mounts for anything properly, the horseshoe mounts for the self tappers could move for fun, the easily removed seatbelt lower tracks proved amusing to refit, and after several hours I was on my third bucket of swar words, well into the Geordie second expletives reserve, and wondering if i'd be able to finish the job as I'd run of profanities out if Scotland went independant.
One of the fiddlier tasks was refitting the hard carpetted trim panels to the inner sides of the footwell as there is a LOT of movement there and getting the screws through both holes and into the mounts was proving time consuming.
So firstly I found some self tapping screws the same diameter as the ones in the car, but slightly longer, and decpitated them - apologies for the focus on the piccies, they looked OK on a 3 inch screen.
I then screwed these lightly by hand a couple of turns into the into the mounting points for the carpet trim
This means that the carpet trim can be slid into pace and hooked over the protruding screw shafts to be located correctly
Then simply undo the decapitated screws one at a time (noting the angle they are at) and replace with the correct fixings.
Once I'd twigged this they went in really easily.
When I took it out to remove the carpets and sound insulation after it got wet, it was easy. unbolt the front seats, unclip the wires, deatbelt holders off carpet trims out, rear seat pops off with a couple of wooden kitchen spatulas, remove a few bits of plastic trim, and it all slides out.
Putting it back revealed the true extent of Italian precision engineering.
Pretty much none of the holes in the carpet lined up with the mounts for anything properly, the horseshoe mounts for the self tappers could move for fun, the easily removed seatbelt lower tracks proved amusing to refit, and after several hours I was on my third bucket of swar words, well into the Geordie second expletives reserve, and wondering if i'd be able to finish the job as I'd run of profanities out if Scotland went independant.
One of the fiddlier tasks was refitting the hard carpetted trim panels to the inner sides of the footwell as there is a LOT of movement there and getting the screws through both holes and into the mounts was proving time consuming.
So firstly I found some self tapping screws the same diameter as the ones in the car, but slightly longer, and decpitated them - apologies for the focus on the piccies, they looked OK on a 3 inch screen.
I then screwed these lightly by hand a couple of turns into the into the mounting points for the carpet trim
This means that the carpet trim can be slid into pace and hooked over the protruding screw shafts to be located correctly
Then simply undo the decapitated screws one at a time (noting the angle they are at) and replace with the correct fixings.
Once I'd twigged this they went in really easily.
