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Question for anyone with a tow bar (don't laugh!) and also at the risk of sounding like a right Norbert I can't find in the manual or any vids online but can I just pull the lever in the boot and deploy the tow bar or do I need to remove a diffuser cover at all?

Thanks

Pretty sure there is a bit of the diffuser that needs to come off but that's just from looking at photos of diffusers, have no actual experience.

You need to pull the central section of the diffuser off first, or the towing head will just drop down inside the diffuser. It's a reaaaallly badly made bit of plastic - I am always convinced that I am going to break it every time I pull it out or refit it. So much so that, if I think I might use the tow bar again any time soon, I leave it off! It does come off with persistance, though, and I haven't broken mine yet....

You can easily see the removable section, it's about 14 inches wide in the centre of the diffuser.

wildbore wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 14, 2017 3:38 pm

You need to pull the central section of the diffuser off first, or the towing head will just drop down inside the diffuser. It's a reaaaallly badly made bit of plastic - I am always convinced that I am going to break it every time I pull it out or refit it. So much so that, if I think I might use the tow bar again any time soon, I leave it off! It does come off with persistance, though, and I haven't broken mine yet....

You can easily see the removable section, it's about 14 inches wide in the centre of the diffuser.

Top man thanks I thought as much and got what a pig to get off you were spit on convinced I had broken it !

I tried to remove the middle section and gave up. Any tips on the twist nuts.

The nuts are a quarter-turn-to-release and then (from memory) they drop down a little, or - at least - feel slightly looser than when you started.

After that, starting at the underneath of the car, you wrestle with the flimsy piece of plastic as if you sole intention were to snap it off and break it into little pieces. After a minute or so of this, the thing usually drops off in your hands. Once it's off, inspect it for a few seconds, marvel at the apparent fact that it hasn't broken, and then pop it in the garage.

Fitting is the reversal of removal - same stressful wrestling and sounds of plastic being tortured.