2012 Westminster with TDV8 4.4 litre engine.

Another dummy question.

I tried to take a look at what was under the large flattish plastic engine cover, and failed. I looked for fixing screws and clips to press but found nothing, lifting only manages to bend the plastic so chickened out for fear of cracking the cover. Is the oblong stripped section in the rear middle a part of the cover or does that come off separately?

Without knowing what to do I am reluctant to lift pull push or force anything without knowing the correct method of removing this damned cover without breaking it.

Any advice will be gratefully received.

I'm not sure about the TDV8 cover but the SC cover is fastened in quite a non intuitive way.

To remove it, you need to undo two nuts 10 mm towards the radiator, easy to find and remove. But then it gets tricky, to remove the other two bolts, you need to remove the interior air filter box first. Two big nuts on the firewall/bulkhead (13 mm or 15 mm I believe). Take out the whole big plastic box and then you can reach the last two fasteners of the cover.

Like I said that is for the SC, not sure if the TDV8 is similar/same. MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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Thanks ebajema, but your discription does not sound any like anything that I saw under the bonnet.

Although I could easily be wrong of course.

I should add I'm seeing the mechanic tomorrow who probably knows as much as me about removing the engine cover, so I thought it would be nice to be able to say "this is how you remove it".

If it's like the TDV6 cover you need to take the oil filler cap off first

Found this, mind you, different TDV8 engine

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic2393.html MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!

Goto lrparts.ru and head to the online catalogue (bottom of page, middle link). Navigate to the engine section (third picture along) and then look for your engine. Hovering the mouse over each picture tells you what it is. Click on the 4.4 tdv8 one and itll show you an exploded view. Find the view with the engine cover on and it'll show where any clips /screws go. 
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Yeah, ignore me, I'm wrong

I don't have mine at home with me at the mo but I've taken mine off before and I seem to recall gently but firmly pushing up under the cover at the front, a little in towards the middle from the sides. I think there were two pegs under the cover, pointing down that push into large rubber o-rings. The back of the cover below the windscreen is secured by two plastic tongues on the back edge of the cover locating in two slots.

As I say I can't actually check this right now but I'm pretty sure it is correct. 4.4 TDV8 Vogue Baltic Blue MY11

I'm just back from my garage having taken a combination of TheAllSeeingPie's link to the drawings and ebajema's advice managed to remove the engine cover. So simple when you know how. Even managed to replace it after a struggle due to restricted space to work.

By then Baron had posted his excellent post describing exactly what was there, so many thanks to all contributers including Martin who gets a mark for effort.

appears to be held on with ball headed studs according to microcat. so upwards force.......


edit, too slow sorry...... There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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