Door card removal

[anonymous-user]

The three little hex head bolts are all rounded off, thanks previous owner !
I assume I need to drill them out anyone done before or has any tips ?

Thanks

David

[MrChips]

They shouldn't be massively tight so maybe a dab of glue on an allen key head, let it set and give it a go? Worth a shot before you start drilling I would think.

[mrcyeo]

They are a pain and can sometimes be locked pretty tight due to water getting to the treads. You could try to cut a groove (dremel) then use a flat headed srewdriver. Worst comes to worst you can pop the door card over the damaged heads buy placing a large flat headed srewdriver between the door and the bottom of the door card then popping the bottom of the door card upwards. Sounds barbaric but you can use the original washers to reattach the door cards securely. I little bit of copper grease on the treads will help the next time you need to remove the door cards.

[nrick]

Another old tip is to drive a torx bit into the rounded off head. Or epoxy glue a bit in.

[anonymous-user]

I still can't get them out. Tried Torx bit , tried epoxy. They are solid.
Cant really understand the pop the card off version .

Any other thoughts please

David

[S6PNJ]

Drill them out from underneath? Make sure you are wearing safety specs though as the bits will fall into your eyes (assuming you are watching where you are drilling), even if they are not directly underneath them - Sods law!

[BluePurpleRed]

Errr... try a small 'easy out' before doing anything destructive perhaps?

I.e. what looks like a reverse threaded screw. So it burrows in to a little hole you can pre drill in the heads and then as it tightens it will start to "lefty loosy" the existing bolt as it does up to the left?

Better explanation here... ?

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5127433_use-easy-outs.ht...

I had some problems with allen bolts on the rear latches of a 944 that finally yielded with this ages ago. Also some 50 year old rusted in Phillips headed screws on the wing of my Dad's A35.

I say this as no heat / fluids needed which for an interior based job may be a good thing?

[Basil Brush]

I had the same issue with one of them that had rusted solid. I ended up cutting the head away with a dremel and then removing the rest with self grips once the door card was removed.

[Batwick2]

Same here - had to be destructive in the end, having tried everything including super-glueing allen bits into the bolts. Ended-up forcing the door card off by carefully ripping the heads through the bottom of it (better than drilling up through the bottom of the door). It's now fixed from underneath with self-tappers, which do the job really well.