[s-cars] Re: The problem - a screw loose for the driver.

[Kneale Brownson]

At 11:48 AM 07/05/2003 -0400, Robert Myers wrote:
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>Hi Y'all,
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>I'm finally getting around to installing my now long overdue (long ago
>bought and paid for but not installed) license plate tag year sticker for
>2004.  I find that the screws holding the rear plate are being held quite
>firmly by the rusted backing nuts which, in turn are not being held at all
>by their retainers behind the trunk lid sheet metal.  The screws spin quite
>freely without any sign of coming out and releasing the plate.
>
>My first inclination would have been to spray liberally with WD-40 but
>there appear two (at least) reasons why this is unlikely to be successful.
>
>1.      There is a plastic protective cover over the plate designed,
>supposedly, to protect the plate from the elements. and
>2.      Even if I were to get the rust loosened with WD-40 there is still
>apparently nothing holding them so that they will still spin freely with
>nothing productive happening.
>
>I have pulled the inner carpet cover of the trunk lid and see that the
>plate mounting screws do not penetrate into the interior so I can't grab
>them from inside the trunk.
I presume this is your S-Car???  If the trunk assembly is like on the Type
44's, you can remove the lights bar by taking out screws available through
various little openings in the trunk lid reinforcing structures.  The
license plate bolts are on the underside of the lights bar, I believe.  If
you can find some plastic bolts and nuts, you can epoxy the nuts back in
place and not have a corrosion problem there in the future.