PainZ
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Registered: 28th Jun 02
Location: Camberley, Surrey - Drives a Black Vectra VXR Esta
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Just been removing my front seats and I slipped on undoing a tight bolt and have now pretty much rounded the torx screw.
I can still put the T40 bit in there, however under preasure it just slips and rounds the screw some more..
Any ideas how I can get it out? The screw is still fully screwed in.
All the other 3 bolts came out fine.
I guess if worse comes to worse, I could use the liveridge of the seat against the screw and snap the head out, however I am worried about ruining the thread and I wouldnt have much of the screw shank exposed to get it out still..
Any ideas would be great.
Thanks
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
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hit a bogger torx onto it.... or hit the t40 into it
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Wrighty_1988
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Registered: 30th Jun 06
Location: South Yorkshire
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urm dont know if you might have some of these but you could probs get them from halfords
http://www.brokentap.com/easy-outs.html
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Pics of where the screw is?
Do you have a dremel multi tool thingy?
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
Location: Horsforth, West Yorkshire
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Hit a 45 torx into it.
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Martin_C
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Registered: 27th Jun 03
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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was gonna suggest an easy out, we use them at work.
could weld a nut onto it and loosen it with a spanner that way, or drill it out and retap it, use mole grips, loads of ways.
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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stilson grips, they're like an adjustable wrench, but the more you pull, the tighter they get... that's what I had to use on my B
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M2RTY
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Registered: 25th May 01
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weld a nut on it
cut into it with a hacksaw and unscrew it? (might be too big)
grind edges and put a socket on?
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N90ATH
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
Location: Boreham, Essex
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i did this on my seast when removing them all those times, i used to just hit a nice big torox bit in to did it that way or used mole grip and did it that way
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M2RTY
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Registered: 25th May 01
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actually, i grinded the bottom off it (under car) and pulled it up
then replaced with nut/bolt
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John G
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Registered: 18th Jul 05
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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i had to dril it out an re thread mine when i did this
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TOMAS
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Registered: 7th Aug 02
Location: Nottinghamshire
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All of the above are good, be sure to soak it in WD40 as much as possible before you have a go. You may find working on it from under the car better as a length of thread should be exposed.
Once out replace them all with some nice shiney stainless allen bolts/washers and copper slip 
[Edited on 29-01-2007 by TOMAS]
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corsa_sport_jay
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Registered: 18th Dec 06
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hi mate i heated the bolt with a blow torch and then got some mole grips on it and took me a good 10 mins and i got it off slowly! the guys on here told me how!!! took me 4 days of rounding off untill i found out wot mole grips was lol!
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jamied
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Registered: 27th Oct 03
Location: Marbella,Spain Drives: C63
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mole grips
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