As most of us know the original Nissan rear spoiler suffers from water ingress and subsequently the paint surface becomes damaged and the spoiler shape changes to a wobbly top and later breaks away at the low part were it meets the tailgate above the lights.

 

Quite why it does this is to many a mystery so we have cut off the end of a damaged spoiler to show why the spoiler is badly effected by water ingress, basically the spoiler was formed around a metal skeleton that over a period of time rusts away, slowly collapsing and distorting, this is why there is no point in repainting a spoiler that has started to deteriorate as the nastiness inside is still there and will just come back very quickly, the only upshot is if caught reasonable quickly the tailgate should be ok.

 

Jeff TT

 

 

 

 

Edited January 31, 201114 yr by JeffTT

Nice one Jeff. That explains why it's a lot heaver than it looks.

A lot of rubber spoilers in this condition now good advice Jeff get them of the tailgate before its to late.

Took mine off at the weekend, just the same. careful with a rubber mallet and an old chisel and no damage to the boot surface.See what the problem is with the hidden white plastic clips.

Just grab it and pull hard, worked for me.

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Couldn't see the pics when I posted at work earlier and wow, I got off light compared to those pics. That really is serious.

Just grab it and pull hard, worked for me.

 

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