With the front arches detailed and protected it was time to look at the rears. The arch liners are more complicated to remove as some engine related equipment is attached to them.
Removal involved removing the engine bay side panels which is not difficult but some of the screws were a tight. With these panels out you can remove the items attached to the top of the inner arch liners.
The liners are held in place at various locations to the frame by M6 bolts - these proved very tight despite being stainless steel. I used Loctite's Freeze'n'Release and managed to remove all the bolts without breaking any and when I reinstalled the liners, re-tapped the threads on the fixings and used new bolts with anti-seize grease.
With the liners removed you can get to quite a lot of the engine including the manifolds, coil packs and plugs, inner drive shafts etc. and of course you can give it a good clean from a different access point of view.
All back together, detailed and shiney:
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