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Boot Lid/Tail Gate Rubber - LOWER


catfish man
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anyone had problems removing the LOWER Boot Lid/Tail Gate Rubber stops-?

my lower boot lid rubbers have lost the will to live so i got some new ones :)

only to find out the screws heads have been rounded :( via a previous owner i would think :rolleyes:

anyone know how do i remove them in this condition?

i have new screws with the new rubber stops

cheers chaps:innocent:

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Toyota really made sure these wouldn't come loose.

 

I had to heat mine up with a hairdryer to soften the thread lock.

 

If you removed the damaged rubbers could you attack the screw heads with a pair if grips?

hairdryer thats me out im bald and my x-wife did not leave her hair dryer lol:d

yea the rubbers are off

i thought it would be a 5 min qiuck job in my lunch break :D :(

will try with the grips and let you know how i got on cheers :D

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The bolts can be a real pain to remove on the lowers.

 

If they round, they use a hacksaw blade to cut a line into the both head and use a large flat head screw driver to remove. They will come straight out, had to do that on all but one car I've replaced them on!

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While were on this subject, im going to need to do mine soon with my respray, how much can i get them for with the bolts and where from? have a feeling toyota might want to overcharge for these little bits..
£13 for the 2 posted on ebay and they are original toyota parts i can pm you the details :)
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  • 1 year later...

Sorry to reactivate a new thread but this afternoon I tried replacing these lower boot rubbers with some new ones and ran into a problem. I heated up one screw and that one came out fine, the other screw was an absolute pain in the backside. I held the soldering iron on it for ages and eventually the more and more I twisted it out with the screw driver the more rounded it became. It is a total mess now - I also had a go at cutting a new head with a hacksaw blade, but don't want to ruin the metal surround lip which sits at the same level as the screw head - any ideas?

 

It was all going so well at first haha

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