Removing the plastic shield near firewall??

[binky]

My black plastic cover shield needs to be removed and replaced, how do you remove it? I am talking about the shield under the hood, right below the windshield. Mine is cracked and very fragile.

TX

[ae1969]

I bought one a week ago.... 50 U.S from the dealer..........

You have to remove the windshield wipers..... (held by a nut), pull the weatherstripping that runs across the engine bay its holding the plastic down on that side...... it also has 2 sided tape up against the windshield side....

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Was that for a new part? I'm probably going to replace mine too - it's shot and it looks like it's been a magnet for crud / rust starting for a while so I'm going to sand that whole area down & POR-15 the entire firewall face to prevent it from getting worse. I think stuff got caught between the lip of the rubber piece and the metal and started to surface rust it. It isn't bad, but I've adopted a "zero tolerance" policy on rust (I know, I hate that term too, but it makes sense here). I think the back firewall would look nice black too, give some contrast to the stuff against it (it's going to be cleaned up / detailed of course).

[ae1969]

Yup new part..... I was surprised...

I am rebuiliding the turbo and I figured I would splurge on the cover.... hehehe

But surprisingly its relatively cheap. You have to reuse the rubber weather stripping on the engine side.

[Panzer909]

Its relatively cheap from the dealer because its made of VERY cheap plastic. Mine is trashed - it looked like someone took a machine gun to it because there's so many holes. You could literally flick your finger on it and there would be a break.

As a side note, its not good to have a cracked panel there, due to its location. This winter, snow went through the holes/cracks and caused the wiper motor to take forever to thaw out and function. I'm getting mine fixed soon.