Could someone please tell me how the contact pin block is removed from the tailgate,is it just prised out? Any idea how much a new block is?
1999 Fiesta heated rear screen contact block
Feb 22, 2004
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Up to '95 according to the manual, you remove the trim, then undo the two screws retaining the contact switch.
To remove the trim you had to undo seven plastic retaining screws, but I don't know if that applies to later models.
HTH
Andy Pandy To e-mail, address hopefully, self-explanatory !
They are about a tenner, they prise out on the one I did recently but that was a 96. The casing melts and gets stuck though, so some force is needed sometimes. Buy a new bit first and the attachment is obvious.
MrCheerful
The contact plate prises out but I believe the pins are fixed with screws !
Andy Pandy To e-mail, address hopefully, self-explanatory !
Andy Pandy To e-mail, address hopefully, self-explanatory !
Quite right, I didn't read the post carefully enough.
MrCheerful
Thanks for the info when I was younger I would have been straight in there prising with the screw driver but now I am older with deeper pockets I like to ponder things first thanks again.
I bought the pins and the block £19.00 & £12.00 each,the pins have two screws that need to be loosened and the whole lot can be removed,the block just prises out, five minute job.
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