Rear number plate plinth removal

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Advice please …my rear no. plate plinth needs a respray .I have removed all the obvious fixings but the thing is still well attached at the top…There is a set of nuts at the rear of the boot floor area holding an ali bracket… I am fearful of undoing these just in case the bolts disappear into the depths never to be seen again. and the heat shield becomes irretrievably detached and of course the Accusump is fitted over one of the nuts making it almost inaccessable… happy days

Please give me your best guys.
Thanks

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Did that exercise last winter. Feels like mission impossible at first.

  1. Remove accusump
  2. Undo those nuts, 8 if I remember right
  3. Use a plastic pry bar to release the alu bar/bracket. It is bonded in place with what to me looked like a hard type of sikaflex. Separation will happen between glue and boot floor.
  4. Use a knive and try to clean out as much of the glue as you can from the threaded pieces. If you don’t it will be very difficult to get the plinth to release.
  5. For the final step there might be better ways, but I used a rubber mallet and went to work on the screws (turned out they are not screws but threaded rods welded to the plinth)
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As above, its not too tricky…then you can go with the delete option :slight_smile:

4

Looks rather tasty.
Where/how is that towing eye fitted??

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Its mounted to the rear frame side on so good and secure. Shit picture…sorry, this is better.

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Isn’t there a danger that it would rotate upwards into the clam if it was actually used. The Sector 111 version mounted horizontally to avoid that.

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This is true if it wasn’t mounted with a sort of cross brace to hold it at an angle :slight_smile: I think of everything me!