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[ianrm]

Lost a couple of these things. They hold the rear wheel arch liners in place. The ones on the VX are slightly larger. Yes they are called scrivets cost £4 each fortunately I get discount and they only cost me £2.50 each

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[ad172]

Were they from Vauxhall? One of mine have threaded slightly so they are on the wish list now!

[ianrm]

Yes they were from Vauxhall. Part no. 9197260. I would have thought if you have the old one and the time you could source them from somewhere else and cheaper.

[Thorney]

They are complete crap, the person who designed them should be shot.

[ianrm]

Must agree but have you an alternative for the wheel arch liner ?

[Ratspants]

I found they used two different types of plastic rivet quite at random around my car:



and



The "scrivet" is far better than that silly pop rivet one, at least it is re-usable whereas the pop rivet core just gets lost inside the car (or you have to glue string to it and hold on to it ).

There has to be a better re-usable rivet type. £4 each (i assume each rather than in a bag of 4 or something) is unimaginablely outrageous!

Ben

Edited by Ratspants, 23 March 2005 - 09:58 AM.

[JimH]

They are complete crap, the person who designed them should be shot.

Shot? Shot? Shooting is too good for the git. I want him, his parents, his grandparents and anyone who has ever been nice to him pulled to bits by wild horses.

And don't start me on jack nuts.

[jed]

Jack who? Was he the guy who designed the scrivet?

[Pipo]

I would love to put a giant scrivet in his ***

[Bengie]

I would love to scrivet him

[Pipo]

I hope my wife doesn't read this.

[Tadpole]

Try Halfords. Trim Panel Rivets Part No. HFX364. About £2-20p for six. We think Lotus get a lot of parts from there?. Tadpole. (Frogman)

[caleebra]

Has anyone bought any scrivets from halfrauds then? I had to drill one out yesterday

[geofflowe]

They are complete crap, the person who designed them should be shot.

Agree - I knackered a rear wheel arch liner when in France 'cos two of them came out.

[BARDS]

Lost a couple of these things. They hold the rear wheel arch liners in place. The ones on the VX are slightly larger. Yes they are called scrivets cost £4 each fortunately I get discount and they only cost me £2.50 each

i found something simular to that inside my car on the floor after cleaning it the other day still cant find where it came from. Geoff.

[MartinS]

Im got replacements from Halfrauds. Theyve got all types and way cheaper than Lotus/Vauxhall. Martin s

[JG]

I recommend using the standard plastic housing, with a stainless screw rather than the stupid plastic one. Also repeatable, had the undertray off 4 times in 2 weeks!

[Jase_MK]

Speaking of plastic scrivet type things - is there anything better that can be used to hold the rear parcel shelf/trim in place. Mine rattles all over the place and trying to tighten those plastic screws is an exercise in futility as they just go round and round. Also, one of the retainers on a rear wheel arch is loose and can't be tightened (or removed) as the bolt on the other side has come unbonded from the fibreglass, so the whole thing flaps and rattles about. Solutions? Hack the screw head off presumably - but then how am I going to get another bolt secured on the back to receive a new screw. Sorry - all a bit off topic I know but seeing as you're all in a scrivet/screwy chatting mood I though I'd slip these in

[JimH]

By parcel shelf I assume you mean the black placcy moulding which holds the speakers and what not. When I took mine out it was a bugger to remove the first time because it felt like there was something sticking it in place. When I refitted it the thing seems to be a little on the loose side and the small number of little plastic fasteners didn't do a very good job of holding it in place. My solution was to get some of the double sided trim tape (the thin stuff which 3M does) and put some little bits of that on where I thought it would stick. That seemed to do the job. The rear wheel arch fasteners are altogether more difficult. I'll assume you are talking about the pair of crosshead screws at the rear. These use jacknuts (they're like the collapsing plasterboard fasteners you see in B&Q) to fasten into the fibreglass and are easily the worst thing they could have used ever. They are mild steel so they rot and then the little legs sheer off and the thing spins round and there is very little you can do about it. I've tried to drill them out but the moment the temperature rises the plastic of the rear wheel arch melts. The only way I've managed it is to tear the jacknut out and then repair the fibreglass (it's sounds like a lot of work but it's pretty simple).

[Jase_MK]

Yep, Jim, that's exactly what I was going on about. The rear speaker trim panel thing has been removed so I guess the sticky pads aren't holding it secure anymore. Perhaps a few patches of heavy duty velcro would sort things out. The plastic fasteners are useless. As for the wheel arch liner - great - that sounds like a right pain in the ass. Perhaps a small fibreglass repair could be incorporated with bonding a nut in there somehow... It's cold and wet outside at this time of year though so I really CBA at the moment.