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balmybaldwin

Member Since: 17 Apr 2021
Location: Surrey
Posts: 192

2002 Defender 90 Td5 CSW Buckingham Blue

Dropped a nut :-(

Noticed wing mirrors a bit wobbly to wiped the door hinge bolts out and loctited the mirror bolts... went to re attach door hinge and dropped a nut which has now vanished into thin air. Should have dropped into the drivers footwell or at very worse into door. No sign of it anywhere.... Any Ideas? anything magnetic that could have caught it?

Will go get anther later, but this one is def in the car somewhere

15th Jan 2022 1:04pm

matchap801

Member Since: 05 Aug 2021
Location: Somerset
Posts: 120

2009 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 CSW Zermatt Silver

The nuts normally drop into the bottom of box steel and difficult to recover.

You need a few of these?

MRC2178 Land Rover Defender Bulkhead Captive Door Hinge Screw Nut UNF 90 110 130 On eBay?

15th Jan 2022 1:41pm

JPE

Member Since: 19 Nov 2018
Location: South West England
Posts: 337

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Firenze Red

I did the same today, fiddly little things! Eventually found mine, but a real pain having to take the door card off looking for it.

15th Jan 2022 6:27pm

Roy5695

Member Since: 15 Feb 2014
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 1123

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS DCPU Indus Silver

Usually just pry the bottom of the door card away and they fall out the bottom. 2011 Defender DCPU 2.2 - https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic30623.html

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Roy

15th Jan 2022 7:05pm

balmybaldwin

Member Since: 17 Apr 2021
Location: Surrey
Posts: 192

Door card is already out... no sign of the little

.

I've bought some more now, but don't really want to leave a random nut loose somewhere.

@matchap - Fortunately it's the nuts on the inside of the door end of the hinge, not the bulkhead ones.... although I have a trick for those:

Click image to enlarge

15th Jan 2022 10:05pm

Dinnu

Member Since: 24 Dec 2019
Location: Lija
Posts: 3470

2012 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 CSW Santorini Black

Assuming you have 2002 door, the bottom channel has some drain holes, but unsure if an M8 nut can go through. If it does, then it will get trapped in the bottom channel, as the lower most 3 drain holes behind the rubber seal are very small. 1988 90 Hard Top, 19J Diesel Turbo, Shire Blue - Restoration ongoing
2012 90 CSW, 2.2TDCI, Santorini Black

16th Jan 2022 3:22am

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