Hi folks,

Firstly I hope this is in the right place, if not please move it.

I'm not completely convinced that buying my car secondhand from a car supermarket 80+ miles away was a great idea, a few, mainly minor, niggles which the distance doesn't make easier to sort out!

I have recently discovered (after trying to fit a bike rack on the boot of the car) that the screw in towing eye that came with my 54 reg Octy Elegance saloon isn't the correct one as it doesn't fit into the hole under the trim. The shaft of the eye gets thicker beyond the screw thread as in the attached pic, meaning it won't slide into the sleeve before the thread engages.

:help: Can someone please post or pm me a pic and part number of the correct eye for my car that I can hassle the car supermarket with?

Thanks in anticipation, Ed

Edited 23 July, 200916 yr by Ed-Preston

You know they are left hand thread?

Thanks Fen, had tried that one already, discovered that with my previous car, a Seat Toledo when I first used it in anger!

Fairly sure the eye has been swapped for a similar, but wrong part grrr

Edited 9 July, 200916 yr by Ed-Preston

Mine's got the part number 1T0805615A on it, and here's a pic...

Thanks for the pic and part number, sorry for the delay in replying. Will be chasing it up with the supermarket place I bought it from... again :irked:

Hmmm, have compared your pic and my part, they are almost identical, but not quite, mine is the same part number but with an 'A' after the number. Going to have a fiddle in slow time and see what happens, looks like yours may have a slightly longer thread, but I wouldn't have thought that wouls stop the first bit from engaging.

Curious now...

...Right, after some further investigation it looks like the original rear towing eye may have either been badly welded in the first place, or some later work has left a blob of weld at the top of the eye, slightly reducing the diameter of the hole so the screw in bit won't now fit. Am going to attack it later with a file as it's only out by a few mm.

Edited 23 July, 200916 yr by Ed-Preston
update... again

That looks more like impact damage than a spot of weld - no idea how you'd hit that and not wreck everything else though. If you can find what thread is used tapping it might give better results than filing.

That looks to have taken a fair whack :eek: - and they're not exactly delicately made!

Also in the first pic it looks slight elliptical; squashed at the top and bottom?

Steve

Looks like impact damage with a post or something simillar rather than a manufacturing fault.

That looks to have taken a fair whack :eek: - and they're not exactly delicately made!

Also in the first pic it looks slight elliptical; squashed at the top and bottom?

Looks like impact damage with a post or something simillar rather than a manufacturing fault.

A long time since I've been on this topic but:

To reply to Steve - the shine on the second pic is due to me trying to get the eye screwed in, was a uniform colour and not scratched looking before I fiddled around. Think the elliptical look is down to camera angle, not actual shape.

and to Mannyo - I had a look at the surrounding bits I could see by lighting up with a torch and the remaining area all looked as originally created, not bashed, but having another car to compare it to I can't say for sure.

...and I know I should know if it's been dinked before I had it, but I don't want to know!