Wierd gadget box under passenger front fender?

[mini62cooper]

I'm replacing my passenger fender and I find weird box above the inner fender and tuck into the ext. fender. 1. What does this box do? 2. How do I remove it so I can get to that last bolt? Any suggestions appreciated, especially if you make me laugh.

[Smokestack]

MK3? Sounds like your charcoal canister. I can't remember off the top of my head how it comes out, but I don't remember it being too bad.

[5280]

If its an MK3... its probably the vacuum expansion tank you're looking at. White box that's empty and has a white hose coming out of it? You don't want to remove that hose. It will mess up the vacuum suction and your door locks won't work. Actually I don't know if that's true, that's just my assumption, but I do know its the vacuum tank. I've yanked the white tube out white pulling a fender liner from a junkyard and it made a loud hiss when the air rushed into it.

Best thing I heard to do with it was to reroute it and secure it under the windshield rain gutters. Its a PITA getting it unscrewed from the fender liner though.

[5280]

It might actually be a black box also depending on year of the car.

[CodeMan]

Sounds like a Homeland Security tracking device. Have you been noticing black helicopters following you around lately?

[Vdub303]

Sounds like a Homeland Security tracking device. Have you been noticing black helicopters following you around lately?

[lucaq]

go go gadget evap system

[MissSixtyGLi]

Sounds like a Homeland Security tracking device. Have you been noticing black helicopters following you around lately?

You know from experience I take it?

[CodeMan]

You know from experience I take it?

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They're listening.

[MissSixtyGLi]

SSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

They're listening.

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