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19th December 2019, 11:34 | #1 |
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Undertray pad fixings
There's a spongy pad thing on the undertray - it's held on by four of these little blighters.
This is the other side of it. The head of the fixing takes a 3-blade security bit (which I've got) but I can't get the thing to unscrew. Does anyone know the trick to undoing these fixings - or is it a case of once they're on you can't take 'em off again (like a rivet). I want to take the pad off to blast the undertray with a Karcher. |
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I'm not sure replacing them with scrivets will work. If I tighten them up I think they'll just pull straight through (unless I use washers on the back). On the other hand, if I tighten them but stop before they start to crush, the body of the scrivet itself will be sticking up and will probably clatter up & down on whatever lump of metal is directly above. I suspect the spongy pad thing is a piece of sound proofing to stop the undertray slapping against the metal above it (sump perhaps?) and making an annoying racket. |
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Just clean around the sound deadening, removal is simply not necessary Brian |
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