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RRUK
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Member Since: 31 Mar 2010
Location: Leicestershire
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Spinning rivnut solution?

My rear view mirror mounting bracket (behind your headlining) has a small issue.

There are three rivnuts in it to attach the rear mirror mounting plate to the headlining and to the body of the car. However, as I found out when I was trying to get the damned thing off, the rivnuts in the bracket are spinning around, which explained why I couldn't undo the screws and therefore can't put new ones in. (Had to drill the screw heads out, drill out the rivets holding the bracket to the windscreen frame and then once on the bench, clamp the rivnuts with molegrips and manually turn the screws out with pliers

)

What's the solution to this? Superglue around the edge of the rivnuts and hope it holds? Buy a rivnut tool and tighten them up or, just use long shank rivets instead of screws?

Can anyone advise?

Thanks 2016 D4 HSE

1998 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF

1982 Series 3 SWB Petrol

12th Mar 2012 9:22am

ken

Member Since: 18 Aug 2009
Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !!
Posts: 4328

Theres a sticky on here about how to fab a DIY Rivnut tool

12th Mar 2012 9:41am

leeds

Member Since: 28 Dec 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 8582

A small amount of glue might help but why not try just tightening up the rivnuts. No need for a special tool for three of. Just have a read HERE

Brendan

12th Mar 2012 9:41am

RRUK
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Member Since: 31 Mar 2010
Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 2025

I finally bought a Rivnut tool from eBay, was £13 and works a treat. 2016 D4 HSE

1998 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF

1982 Series 3 SWB Petrol

12th Apr 2012 3:20pm

sense of adventure

Member Since: 11 Nov 2011
Location: warwickshire
Posts: 147

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Galway Green

rivnuts

hexagon rivnuts is what i use to stop this ever being an issue, they can be used to great affect on a round hole if you drill it slightly smaller than needed (about 0.75mm smaller) and then tap in gently with a small hammer before crimping.

12th Apr 2012 3:26pm

Nathan.k

Member Since: 21 Aug 2011
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 9

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Stornoway Grey

You can get a new type of rivnut now called a rawlnut which is a rubber rivnut, it will expand to any shape hole and is reusable. All my light guard rivnuts where spinning. It was a nightmare to drill them out, bit of grease this time on the screws and the new rubber rivets has worked a treat! Couldn't recomend them enough!!

12th May 2012 9:27pm

sparkylee

Member Since: 06 Nov 2010
Location: surrey
Posts: 1455

2012 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 DCPU Santorini Black

I brought one of these along with a couple of boxes of the alu rivet nuts but when they arrived there supplier had sent steel ones so rang to say needed alu ones to stop reaction between body work and nut and they sent replacement alu ones and said keep others as cost of sending back wasn't worth it
Brilliant bit of kit don't know how I have survived without one all these years

It's good to be back from the dark side

DC110 -2012 Black with black hood and black x-tech
FFRR 4.2 vogue
Renault traffic auto
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Laika x700 Motorhome

12th May 2012 10:01pm

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