Removing rear vent covers

[BBRT]

G'day,

I want to remove a rear vent cover from my 81 GTV (plastic bumper), so I can take it to get some colour matched paint.
Can someone tell me how to get it off?

Thanks,

[poohbah]

See same topic I started a month or so ago. There are three screws on each you can undo from inside rear hatch. 5 minute job, just pull the carpet lining down.

[goodallallan]

Yes, as above. They are 10mm nuts (I think, maybe 8mm?). The other end of the bolt is captive to the vent cover.

[BBRT]

Found them!

Thanks

[poohbah]

Goodo, glad I can finally help someone out!

As long as you know your paint code, you should be able to refurbish them yourself. Only needs a bit of elbow grease to to tidy them up, primer and indoor room to apply fresh paint with no wind interference.

[BBRT]

Paint made to the paint code on the sticker is too silver.

The car, including the plastic vent cover was repainted before I got it (I bought it in 1996).

It is my intention to take the vent cover to the paint shop so they can analyse the colour with their spectrographic thingy.

[poohbah]

Fair enough. Interesting your vents are body colour. I have an 81 GTV too and covers are matt black, in contrast to the grey duco.