Half mile from home after a splendid day, round a bend to find the warm body of a badger in the middle of the road. My car may have been up to it but after a day on track and a 140 miles home (in the dark after a big curry) my reflects weren’t, so I now have a less sticky-outy splitter in need of at least a couple of plastic screws, a bent rear diffuser fin and a load of black&white hair around the rear of the car.
I seem to recall the query before but what is the best option for replacement plastic screws? I’m sure those fine Edwardz chaps can help but were there other avenues?
I have some nylon bolts somewhere that Steve kindly sent me.
If any of them have sheared you will find that you need to take the whole front splitter assembly off to reinstate the bolts as you can’t get the broken off stub out.
[quote=Benja]I have some nylon bolts somewhere that Steve kindly sent me.
If any of them have sheared you will find that you need to take the whole front splitter assembly off to reinstate the bolts as you can’t get the broken off stub out. [/quote]
No! no! no - a tip from Viz - warm up the screwdriver blade on the AGA - place into the sheared nyloc end and unscrew - eh voila
[quote=SimonE][quote=Benja]I have some nylon bolts somewhere that Steve kindly sent me.
If any of them have sheared you will find that you need to take the whole front splitter assembly off to reinstate the bolts as you can’t get the broken off stub out. [/quote]
No! no! no - a tip from Viz - warm up the screwdriver blade on the AGA - place into the sheared nyloc end and unscrew - eh voila [/quote]
Thanks Simon (what I was going to try and be all smug about it, might apply a little WD40 to ease things too)
CAN I PLEASE HAVE LESS SYMPATHY FOR THE BADGER, I AM THE VICTIM HERE!!!
I didn’t kill him and believe I would have tried harder to avoid him if he’d been moving (I’m amusing male, don’t want to think of abandoned baby badgers!)
better than hitting a Hare
(the sort that smells like performance friction pads!)
