I've drilled out the bottom rivets on the bottom of the LH sill. Problem is, as Coskev said in his thread, that the outer but is alloy and the drill bit goes off centre, even though I centre punched each one. So I pulled the alloy outer off each one with pliers, thinking that one I got the skirt away from the rivets, I'd be able to have more grip to pull them out with pliers or something. When this failed I tried drilling the remains out with a smaller bit, but the rivet metal is hard and the drill doesn't penetrate very well.

As they are solid centre rivets drilling or pulling them with pliers seems to be very difficult. Is there a better technique to get the rivets out entirely?

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Cherry Rallye SOLD

I ended up knocking some of them into the sill

Plenty of cavity wax in there so they won't rattle around!

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

I manipulate the side skirt over the rivet then once the skirt is off grind the s**t out of the bas**rds.

Carl

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Screwdriver and hammer to force the rivet edge upwards then pinch off so you can manipulate over the reminent of the rivet is how I've done them on breakers but it's a ball ache so normally leave them on as they rarely sell when collection only offered and have had 10 years of use so are s**t anyway.

Rip the f**kers off and use loads of tiger seal to put them back on FTW.

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Dremel with a cutting disc to cut the heads in half the simply punch reminder into sill

^^^ This.
I actually used a broken hacksaw blade. Worked okay but a dremel would have been the favorite.

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Hole saw a one inch hole in the sill and use compressed air to blow the rivit debris out of the hole. Paint/treat the edges if the hole you made and slap in a grommet. Job done.

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R H Davey Welding Supplies. I sell new and used welding equipment in the Hampshire area. I take on welding jobs in the evenings, ally casting repairs are one of my specialities but I can weld pretty much anything. PM me with your requirements.

Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
Solid Beam Mounts BACK IN PRODUCTION
Harness bars

Do you engrave numbers on to the rivets before hand and call the numbers as they drop out to passing pensioners?

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Senior Test Automation Engineer for the 306GTi6 Owners Club Forum

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