Rear Trunk Flap Removal
 

Does anybody now how to remove the rear trunk flap? Let me explain, in the trunk, there is the rear gate or whatever, and then connecting the trunk to the gate when the gate is down is a flap. That connects to a long strip that holds on the rear pillars. Does anyone know how to remove this?

Thanks,
Dave

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Not sure why you want to remove it, but this blk plastic piece does fold up. I simply held it up when I had to run some wiring underneath...

It's holding in the rear pillar cover. I am clearing out all the wiring I had from a previous installer, cleaning out the trunk and starting fresh with new wiring. So I need to remove the rear pillar cover, to remove the side covering

Been looking for this info. Found instructions with pics at pelican.

https://www.pelicanparts.com/techart...eplacement.htm

It's in the Avin 2 install thread also. I have to check it actually to see if photobucket took down the images.

It did. Why do you use photobucket or pic hosting sites for that matter? Just attach the pics in your post and they will always be available. You just have to reduce the size using apps such as mspaint (preinstalled with windows or mac os), etc. I have posts as old as 15 years with pics. Just saying and my .2 cents ….

And don't forget that there's the TIS website. You can type in the last 7 digits of your VIN...then type a key search word or phrase into the search box and see if you can get results that instruct on how to remove whatever it was that you wanted to remove.

https://www.newtis.info/tisv2/a/en/

Yeah, I also have the X5 Bentley manual - both don't have instructions on how to remove the tailgate flap trims. They do have instructions on how to remove the tailgate itself, lock and the shocks.

Main reason is I hate (like full on despise with the fire of a thousand suns) small, no detail, images for DIY's. It pained me using small images for the pdf write up. PB was good for 10 years before a year or so ago. *shrug* I'd like to host my own images really, but switched to using postimg for the time being.

Crystalworks, one of the main reasons one needs to reduce the image size is so that it doesn't fill the entire screen! You've seen those lousy DIY where a single pic fills an entire page. Pics taken by smartphones are of a very high resolution. I usually resize them by 75% and that still can fill the entire screen with 4 high res images. If you post using tapatalk forum app, it automatically resizes your pics to keep within the limits of image size allowed for attachments.

Try it and you will be very happy with your pic posts as the pics will always be there for years to come - just attach, post and forget; no hosting image hustles and maintenance or costs. :thumbup:.

Here's an example of an old post with pics taken by my smartphone reduced by 85%. Note the high res and size of pics:D. Those pics will always be online.

https://xoutpost.com/1155219-post20.html.

On the other hand, have you ever come across those potentially valuable DIYs that are rendered almost useless when in place of images, you see only an "x" :( ?

I cut the pics from my current phone camera to 15% of their native size with MS Paint before posting. Keeps them under 100 kbytes. :thumbup:

Great info! What image format to do you save them as (.png, .jpg, etc)?

I save them as .jpg

Over the decades...I've learned to reduce/change images with large resolutions to approx 800x600 (many phone or camera images are like 2500x3000 or larger). Most times I just change the first dimension to "800" and let the image resizer do its thing.

Like stated above...it prevents having images so large that you have to scroll left/right & up/down just to get some perspective of what you're looking at. :)

When I upload to postimg I have it resize the images to for a19" monitor comfortably. I forget what resolution that is. Bigger than those you guys use for sure. But I prefer larger images. Not scroll the page big, but bigger. I use a 32" monitor (1080p) in both the garage and the office (4k) and a 75" in the living room (4k) so screen real estate isn't usually an issue. But small pictures sometimes can be a problem. I'm sure I'm an outlier as most probably view the forums on a smartphone.

I'll DL tapatalk x5only and have a play with it. Certainly would make posting images from the phone easier. I commonly use pics from our dslr which is another reason for postimg. :dunno:

Sometimes it just takes a few stabs at specific search words/phrases. I tried a few and initially came up empty...but then I just pared down to using "tail gate trim" (as the search words) and when I scrolled down through the list of results...I found the following link & info...which then provided more links...two of which are also listed below along with some images: https://www.newtis.info/tisv2/a/en/e...te-trim-panel/

QSilver7, you got me floored! Thanks for restoring my faith in https://www.newtis.info. Double high fives to you :thumbup:. Thanks for your persistence - I could never find that info in newtis and I've learned something new :D. Bentley manual certainly doesn't have the info. Long live https://www.newtis.info!

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