Ok I am gonna have to hang around and wait for a response as I can go no further!

I need to remove the windscreen cowl panel off of my 1990 Saff. All that appears to be holding it on now are what look like three plastic screws, one each end and one in middle, along edge near winscreen. However they are clearly not screws but some strange mechanism and I don't know how to remove/undo them! Anyone know?

Incidently I am removing it to further my investigation into where water is getting in and soaking the passenger footwell. Has anyone else had this or is it a known fault that occurs after time? Any ideas?

Oh and also some electrics have stopped, i.e. clock, wipers, rear windscreen heater, fuses are not blown though.

 

these clips are a twat,they look like plastic srews but they only turn through a quarter turn then pull up.I broke three because they were seized in the plastic.turn them and lever up with another screw driver.
Have you checked the drains in the bulkhead panel they block up with leaves and stop the water draining off it then enters the heater onto the cabin floor.

 

As above,these do block up easily

Also,are you sure it's not coolant????????

Heater matrix leaking will fill the floor pan up

 

Engine loom grommet 85% its were people fit amps and extra gauges and don't check it afterwards

behind the glove box about 60mm in dia

 

but if you can't get to it from that end, the outside of it sits behind the abs valve block, not the easiest thing in the world to get back in again that grommet isn't

any luck with the windscren scuttle plastic screw clip removal then?

 

Cheers guys, I will check your suggestions on Sunday and get back to you.

 

Sorry mate those plastic scuttle clips ,do screw out not just a quarter turn like i told you earlier.I found some old clips yeaterday and could see the thread,they are a get though!!!!!

 

TheThe plastic clips are a complete bastard to get out I've broken several of these, they do unsrew all the way but they tend to seize up and then the heads snap when you undo them

 

before you undo them, go under the front wheel arch and try getting one of the inner arch liner screws out they are also tought little buggers to extract, in the same way

 

spray the screws with some oil before you try to remove them and be prepared to visit the scrappy for some new ones! if the heads do break off, just bash the rest of the screw all the way through the other side

 

I ended up cutting these screws off

 

they are right bastitches they never stop spinning

i fuond that drilling the screw with a tiny drill bit (1mm) and sending in a normal metal screw gives it enough bit to be able to remove them

but then again, i wasn't other with spending hours doing this