A6 - Removing Rear License Plate
04-01-2004, 12:51 AM
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A6 - Removing Rear License Plate
Having a devil of a time trying to remove the rear license plate. All four screws are frozen to the backers. All I've managed to do so far is break one of the screw backers. The last time I tried this (a year ago) I had to take the car to the dealer to have it removed.
04-01-2004, 09:32 AM
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Re: A6 - Removing Rear License Plate
Dale,
A surefire way would be to remove the heads of the screws with a Dremel
cutoff wheel, then apply PB Blaster or something to the stud and turn it out
with vice grips when it gets free. When you replace the screws, put some
anti-sieze compound on the threads before screwing them in.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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Having a devil of a time trying to remove the rear license plate. All four
screws are frozen to the backers. All I've managed to do so far is break
one of the screw backers. The last time I tried this (a year ago) I had to
take the car to the dealer to have it removed.
A surefire way would be to remove the heads of the screws with a Dremel
cutoff wheel, then apply PB Blaster or something to the stud and turn it out
with vice grips when it gets free. When you replace the screws, put some
anti-sieze compound on the threads before screwing them in.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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"Dale Webler" <dwebler@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
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Having a devil of a time trying to remove the rear license plate. All four
screws are frozen to the backers. All I've managed to do so far is break
one of the screw backers. The last time I tried this (a year ago) I had to
take the car to the dealer to have it removed.
04-01-2004, 02:22 PM
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Re: A6 - Removing Rear License Plate
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:51:25 GMT, "Dale Webler" <dwebler@wi.rr.com>
wrote:
Last week I removed my plates that had been on a car for 10 years. One
I unscrewed and the other needed some Liquid Wrench and a pair of
pliers. The pliers worked like a charm.
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