Hi all. 

 

Getting pretty fed up with the rubbish heat shields on my 2013 Vrs, all the holes in the aluminium shields themselves have corroded away to a massive hole, and almost all the screw threads are just a corroded lump of metal now. I went round them all a few years ago when I fitted a new exhaust, and tried to make the best of a bad situation, but they're all beyond repair now.

 

As the bolts are fixed to the body (I'm assuming spot welded) what are people's solutions to this? I did try to rethread one of them to M5, but it just crumbled in the die! 

 On our old mk2 I used washers and closed / blind rubber cable grommets with a slit cut in them pushed onto the corroded bolts and that worked well for years.

Edited 14 September, 20232 yr by skomaz