Originally Posted by SFG
Ok. Tips for removing the wings, please?

A job best avoided if possible, depending on how your wings were fixed on. These days they use threaded inserts in the wood and it's all a lot easier but I don't know if they were doing that in 2012.

When I removed my wings I had to grind off the heads off all the bolts and then re-drill holes in the arches and under the rocker panels so I could put inserts in. OK for me as I was fittinng new wings so they had to be drilled anyway, but I wouldn't think you'd want to do that if you were refitting the existing wings.


Tim H.
1986 4/4 VVTi Sport, 2002 LR Defender, 2022 Mini Cooper SE