Tourer Rear Light Securing Bracket Mod

[Arctic]

Originally Posted by E_T_V

A rubber or plastic washer glued in place would do the job Its only to protect the paint really. I'd avoid felt pads as they'll hold water.

Cheers excellent thinking and would be a bit thinner too, hopefully i may get a chance tomorrow but am busy getting ready for the weekend meet.

I have made metal brackets for the bottom fixing if they have failed to much if not i have used stailess steel washer either side so the fixing hole is sandwiched between them

[MrDoodles]

Is there anything you can't fix on these cars Steve?

[Arctic]

Originally Posted by MrDoodles

Is there anything you can't fix on these cars Steve?

Yes Mark
The ability to make them do 100 mile to the gallon for £1.50 and zero tax only Mr Cameron can do that but lets not go there Arctic

[MrDoodles]

Best not get me started on the LibLabCon, had you!

[Duotone]

Steve.

I took your great idea about using pc blanking plates and secured the bottom bracket with the drilled pc plate.

I then made another shorter plate for the top securing bracket.

I secured both plates by filling the void between the new plate and the original securing bracket with hot melt glue, as seen in the picture below,,



Dave T

[Arctic]

Originally Posted by Duotone

Steve.

I took your great idea about using pc blanking plates and secured the bottom bracket with the drilled pc plate.

I then made another shorter plate for the top securing bracket.

I secured both plates by filling the void between the new plate and the original securing bracket with hot melt glue, as seen in the picture below,,



Dave T

HI Dave
Great i fitted mine today finally will post after once the brackets have been re-inforced they should in effect not break again i also sorted out the little white clips and used the plaster board rawlplugs but had to make the hole larger which i doubt many members would like to do but you never know, it should be easy for me to change the bulbs without the worry of the light fixings breaking Arctic.

[Arctic]

I will update this thread early next week as i have to do alittle work on the rear bumper and will be doing some wiring work behind the rear lights also Arctic.

[Arctic]

Hi sorry to not have got back to this thread earlier as i said i would but been busy, anyways while in the local diy shop i purchased some different plaster board rawl plugs the screw in type and guess what with a little fettling they are great to replace the brittle original clips that break so often.

They will need to be drilled out with a 5mm drill bit to make the hole the snug fit it needs to be i will details this more once i have out together a pictorial how to over the next few day as i am busy gearing up for the nano cheers Arctic

[sworks]

Excellent work Steve

[ProfDave]

Originally Posted by Arctic

Hi sorry to not have got back to this thread earlier as i said i would but been busy, anyways while in the local diy shop i purchased some different plaster board rawl plugs the screw in type and guess what with a little fettling they are great to replace the brittle original clips that break so often.

They will need to be drilled out with a 5mm drill bit to make the hole the snug fit it needs to be i will details this more once i have out together a pictorial how to over the next few day as i am busy gearing up for the nano cheers Arctic

cool stuff; wish I had looked at this yesterday; my new lamps are in though.

seeing this end part got me thinking; I wondered it you could use something similar to these wall fixings to replace the truly awful bolts that spin!??

then you could use a stainless big self tapper to secure. There are a bunch of similar wall fixings that might do a similar job

I can now at least mod the two lamp clusters I have that have broken posts