A new fastening plate had to be fabricated due to the botch job by one of the body shops “fixing” the budget lock fastening.
Refer to EPOCH 11 for the epic saga of finding the correct spat lock.
Spat budget lock holes had to be tapped.
The destruction of the original fixing holes can be seen.
New fixing plate (in primer). New machine screws and washers.
New backing plates were made as one of the both shops used the wrong screws and destroyed the original fixing plate in the process.
Spat lock cover (not original).
The original budget lock and fastening machine screws.
The good original spat lock.
Rear wings and spats.
The rear wings were so poorly fitted by the EPOCH 07 body shop that it was decided that additional fixing points to the tonneau were needed.
Additional holes were drilled in the tonneau for the new fixing points.
The new beading was so poorly painted by the EPOCH 12 body shop that it had to be removed and will need to be repainted. Paint was chipping off.
The EPOCH 7 body shop botched job on the tonneau had the captured nuts welded into the tonneau as per the original. The new strategy was to use one of the new automotive adhesives to fix the new captured nuts.
Note that one of the body shops had broken off one of the wing B-pillar fixing studs.
A plan was devised to use pop rivets to do the initial holding of the captured nuts in place to the tonneau.
This bolt had been broken off by one of the body shops in the new captured nut. It was very difficult to remove as it was inaccessible and the captured nut spun in its casing.
Attempts to drill out the bolt proved unsuccessful.
One of the new captured nuts pop riveted to the tonneau.
What it looks like inside the tonneau.
This one was a bit of a nightmare. The EPOCH 07 body shop had put in new sheet metal, leaving the old in place hence the to layers of metal shown here in the hole.
What the hole looked like on the inside.
The missing weld stud.
This is how the captured nut turned out at the left side B-pillar. Not pretty.
The yellow tape marks the location of all the new captured nuts.
This one was very tough to get to.
Prepping nylon rod to use to prevent the automotive glue from gumming up the threads of the captured nuts.
Both 1/4″ and 5/16″ were needed.
This one was also very tough to fasten as it too was nearly impossible to access. The rectangular galvanized plate was the drilling template.
