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ipd
05/10/2016, 10:11 AM
The spliced in rectangular piece of plastic that sits on my hatch's "Crescent Moon" plastic piece--is loose. Anyone have any good ideas for securing it in place?

Thanks!

p.s.
Catching an airplane in 4 hour...darn sandbox again.

WormGod
05/11/2016, 07:22 AM
Go in through the back and see if one of the tabs is broken. Best advice. ;)

ipd
05/11/2016, 07:42 AM
I assume that means pulling out the spare & removing the nuts on the hatch where the crescent is?

Mile High VX
05/11/2016, 05:19 PM
Nope, you can't access it unless you remove it. So taking the nuts off inside the cutting the double stick tape around the housing.

WormGod
05/12/2016, 08:15 AM
Spare has to come out to access assembly to remove. The crescent also has an adhesive lining. I haven't done it for many years when I did a rear view cam, but I think my memory serves fairly well.

Roody650i
05/17/2016, 07:37 AM
What is the point of the rectangle thing? Been wondering that for the last few weeks

Mile High VX
05/17/2016, 07:57 AM
It's where the rear view camera is mounted on the JDM models. They came standard with a back up camera and the door to allow operations was remote. The US version did not have the camera so a filler piece was put in place to plug the hole.

Roody650i
05/20/2016, 04:50 AM
Got it, thanks...

Weirdest thing happened...I had looked at mine the day I posted in this thread (Tues.) and then on Wednesday was looking at my VX and noticed the rectangle thing is gone...guess I'll make something for it