With the rear bulkhead panel and the parcel shelf fitted to the car I was able to finish the boot. Which meant fitting the two small rectangular trim panels against the back of the parcel shelf, and the trim panel in the right hand wing. These hadn’t been fitted to help access to the wiring while fitting the parcel shelf. And it turned out that the nuts for the rear mounting points off the parcel shelf were much easier to access this way. Call it foresight!
Despite that it was a bit of a struggle. Especially aligning the overlapping mounting holes of the left hand wing and rear bulk head panels with the hole in the body. Certainly not helped by the fact that I applied a self-adhesive flocked covering to the panels. And thus adding some extra thickness. Luckily I had a few longer non-standard plastic (drive) fasteners lying around to bridge the extra thickness!
Another problem that reared its ugly head was the shape of the trim panel for the right hand rear wing. That didn’t fit at all. It clearly was for a later car were there is more room in front of the shroud around the fuel filler neck. Luckily that was easy to rectify with a pair of heavy duty scissors.
Also used the opportunity to trial fit/check the position of the centre arm rest. It looks like the rear mounting holes align quite nicely. Though the carpet around the front of the arm rest needs some tiny rectifications before the arm rest and centre console can be fitted. But that should be easy!
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