hi i have a 1999 uk turbo and ive just replaced stock indicaters with nice clear 1's but just under the front indicaters are some horrible plastic orange things are they easy to remove and what are they? thanks in advance

 

The technical term is wedges, never removed them though, think they just clip in.

 

quick i need to know they are hurting my eyes

 

just asked my mechanic and he says they just pull out, get a little driver if you can't do it with your fingers.

 

flat blade screwdriver, insert into small recess in the wedges, pop out.

Then rub off the paint or just key and then spraypaint to the colour of your choice and put a lacquer over the top

 

By the way, they were designed for venting air onto the brakes, but since the arch lining covers the route, they are purely for show

 

ha they do and now they will never offend me again but i think i'll have to spray them black and put them back cos you can see there is something missing. oh well better than orange, what where subaru thinking a, i think it was the same designers that designed the new shape scooby, silly people!

 

thanks peeps

 

I sprayed mine black first time around and then silver now.
I also have a cold air feed coming into one side of them. Dosent do much but helps a tad.

 

My car only has one of these 'wedges' on the drivers side - does anyone have a spare one laying around for the passengers side?

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I sprayed mine with matt black plastic bumper paint, looks nice and 'factory'

 

have primed and sprayed them plasticote black tonight will put them in tomorrow let you know how it looks.
looks really weird without them in though.

 

I searched for a couple of months for one and in the end I got mine from 'Grade A Subaru' for £5.00. They had loads of them.

 

I thought about doing this myself but there doesn't appear to be a clear route for any cold air feed/piping.

 

hmm, i always thought they were just for show, do the RA models have the arch liners fitted?

mine are gone regardless, might remove the wedges lol ran without them for about 2 years

 

Whether they are just for show now is debatable as they seem to just fill a gap , but you can see how they would have fed some air/cooling onto the brakes.

 

The best cold air feeds are the ones that have a direct route for less turbulence. Mine is routed from the wedge (cable tie) up the inside of the wing and appears next to the pipe from the FMIC. So not direct but it seems to work.

 

mine are sprayed to match the colour of my car

but yeah they do pop out easily.

 

sprayed black and fitted back and they look a damn site better than that hiddious orange colour anyway thanks for info peeps

 

Thanks for that - I could never find out what they were called to do a proper search.