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Old 04-20-2007, 11:13 PM
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From my understanding, you find a front-end totaled Turbo model and take it's hatch completly. You'll need to wire the spoiler up to a switch (you could take the switch from under the dash on the donor that gives you it's hatch) and manually activate/deactivate it. It won't work on a non-1.8T automatically, this is what I've been told.

Overall, other than the wiring, it shouldn't be very hard. You're just unbolting one door and replacing it with another. If you have a physical key lock, you would need to re-ring the lock to work with your key ... or get a key from the donor. The keyless should still work.
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