Wagon tailgate Garnish.

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Sigmaproject
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Wagon tailgate Garnish.

Post by Sigmaproject »

Weird name I know. It should be called the "thing that covers the tailgate catch and contains the numberplate lights" Garnish for short.


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Took the wagon to a workshop to get a new clutch fitted and was handed a handful of broken plastic bits when I returned. Someone had attempted to close the tailgate by pushing down on the plastic tailgate garnish. It had to happen one day..I had already cracked it myself. Anyway I would assume that the garnish is as rare as hens teeth..being made of plastic..30 years in the sun has made them as brittle as hell.
My only spare is a metal one from an earlier model. It does not exactly fit correctly around the GN " applique" (the plastic panels) on either side of the numberplate.
So there is a gap behind the doner garnish that I will try and fill with a strip if rubber. In the pic it is only a strip of black electrical tape.
Looks a bit odd, but what can you do.
Scorpma82
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Re: Wagon tailgate Garnish.

Post by Scorpma82 »

Since the damage was done by them,they should be liable, they should source it for u
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