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Oh... pain in the butt...

The seats are easy to remove. Search for posts on that one. After that, the stock shelf is clipped and bolted in place, but has two slits that your c-pillar plastic covers clip into. If your shelf is OLD and tatty, it'll bend really easily, and you can bend it down and slip the covers past the slits in the shelf.

Otherwise, if you want to keep the shelf, and it's not so bendy... remove the c-pillar covers. Dunno how to do that though.

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Oh... pain in the butt...

The seats are easy to remove. Search for posts on that one. After that, the stock shelf is clipped and bolted in place, but has two slits that your c-pillar plastic covers clip into. If your shelf is OLD and tatty, it'll bend really easily, and you can bend it down and slip the covers past the slits in the shelf.

Otherwise, if you want to keep the shelf, and it's not so bendy... remove the c-pillar covers. Dunno how to do that though.

C- pillar covers are all clips after you unbolt the seatbelts and handles up the top, can be really hard to get off and easy to break the clips

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That just makes my method sound WAY better again!

I made my own shelf out of 6mm thick MDF, which I made shorter width-ways. The ends of the shelf sit right up against the c-pillar clips now, with a bit of excess carpet hanging over.

You can't see a single gap, and it looks dead factory!

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That just makes my method sound WAY better again!

I made my own shelf out of 6mm thick MDF, which I made shorter width-ways. The ends of the shelf sit right up against the c-pillar clips now, with a bit of excess carpet hanging over.

You can't see a single gap, and it looks dead factory!

Hey steve, Im the guy that bough your stock wheels off you. incase you dont know. I ended up making mine out of 16mm MDF, got 6x9s in there with only minor spacing, carpeted it black, looks great, cant see a thing from outside with tinted windows. Thanks for the advice that day.

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Hey! Your nickname totally didn't register for a minute there!

Good stuff... good to hear that the shelf went well.

Did you do the shorter shelf that I described above? (and the night you picked up the wheels)

SO worth doing =-]

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how will you guys fasten the mdf to the actual parcel shelf? if your making it shorter at both ends?

i was going to make a shorter shelf - but went against the idea as i thought pillar trim is designed to keep the shelf in place preventing it to rattle.

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Nah, those pillar trim bits are pretty flexible. I wouldn't count on them.

I had one bolt in the middle, under the cap/cover thing.

I also had two plastic... things? on the left and right, hand side. They are the press-in plastic clip kind of things. I pulled those out, and found that the hole they grabbed into actually had a thread in it. The metal part of the parcel tray has a bolt welded into the underside (visible from inside the boot). I bought two bolts and screwed them in. Now it's strapped down by three bolts, rather than some plastic bits (and c-pillar covers).

I honestly beleive the plastic c-pillars clip into the parcel shelf to hold the pillars in place, not for the pillar covers to hold the parcel tray in place!

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