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Snapped Body Fixings

Thomp1983

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As many of us have probably come across, whilst sorting out my sills a few of the studs that hold the various plastic undertrays and covers on snapped off so I thought I'd do a post on how I fixed them using rivnuts.

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that blob in the middle used to be a stud like the one below

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I ground the remaining bit flush with the body, I then drilled a 9mm hole where the stud used to be.

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I then got one of these useful bits, a rivnut (the one pictured is an m8 I used m6 ones for this job)

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this is the rivnut fixing tool, it's not too different to a normal rivet gun

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fitted in place

as you can see you can now use a m6 bolt to hold the undertray in place.

hopefully this will be useful to somebody

Chris
 
Great info Thom!
It'll definitely help anyone tackling their wheel arch areas. :thumb:
 
I used weld studs on mine. It's kind of a pain using a wire-feed welder but it can be done 8) Sorry no photo's... Obviously, depending on where the stud is and where the car is, a welder isn't always appropriate - these other options are nice! :thumb:
 

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