I'm considering shooting the wife's Clio. The rack gaiters need replacing, which isn't usually hard, but these are really stupid. To avoid problems with the boots balooning as they compress there's a balance pipe from one side to the other - which plugs into a hole in the back of the gaiter. Except that the pipe is on the back of the rack and flared at the end and so far it's defeated my attempts to get it to go in.
I'm going to have to give up and take the rack off to fit 'em - which is really daft. I suspect that the pipe's on the front of the rack on LHD models, but that they've just turned it over for UK use and now it's at the back and completely inaccessible.
Oooh, that's given me an idea - I can give up on the old pipe and just make a new one out of a bit of PVC tube and the old one can just go stuff itself. Stuff it in the holes, cable tie it to the front and stop swearing at it.
Cor - the benefits of actually expressing the problem!