Just had my car re painted and need to get some rivets to put the side skirts back what ones do people use as the the ones that came off had a plastic coating on them but seem to find any with this coating?


cheers,
Phil

 

i got mine from ford, expensive little buggers but,
im near sure i seen some on ebay last week, worth a try

 

i have looked on ebay but can only 3dr ones (guessing they need as many)

do you want to sell your number plate??

cheers,
Phil

 

I used ally pop rivets and painted the head .

 

lol i think there was a phil owed my car before,
he must ave put that reg on it cause it originally had an english reg

 

Exactly as said above, I got them from Ford but expensive, they have a black plastic head, where as my originals were painted.

You could get the rivets elsewhere MUCH cheaper, just get ones with the same size heads.

Martin

 

I bought some direct from my local Ford dealer in the past.

Dont' bother with my local dealer any more as these guys are really helpfull, give a discount and post the parts to you saving time and aggro

http://www.fordpartsuk.com/PARTSREQUEST.htm

Only takes a minute to fill the form in

 

You can buy black rivets.

 

You can still get coloured plastic coated rivits in selected colours from Ford. I've enough moonstone ones in the loft to do a couple of cars lol

 

I used 5 mm black plastic Scrivets with the centre screws replaced with 3 mm stainless self tappers. These are easy to remove if you need to and unlike aluminium pop rivets, will not cause dissimilar metal corrosion between the aluminium and steel. I used them on the fitting strips as well as the skirts themselves. They are also dirt cheap.

The Scrivets look like this

http://media.jetpress.com/ProductDB/...600&height=600

 

Thats what i did. TBO, with the price difference, its probably cheaper to buy the black ones and touch them in with a brush.

 

where do you buy the scrivets from?

 

I got them from ebay.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5mm-Screw-...#ht_2488wt_944

The screws came from ebay as well.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-x-3-4-St...#ht_916wt_1177

No problem dealing with either supplier.

 

Nice one think i'm gonna go this route. i've replaced nearly all nuts and bolts with stainless now.

cheers,
Phil

 

Sorry to dig this up but do the dome headed self tappers not sit too high on the skirt?

 

I have only used these on the RS option skirts, where all the rivets are hidden or only visible from underneath. Not Sure on the Cossie skirts.

 

Ford sell them

 

Any idea on the price? Someone said earlier on in the thread that theyre expensive for what they are

 

they range in price, i think moonstone ones are like 1.50 each

 

Ok cool. I'll be down in Ford during the week so i'll get some prices then. Thanks for the help

Last question for you guys, on the front section that attaches to the wing theres 2 rivets that hold the leading edge. but what way does it secure to the face of the wing? it looks like it slides down on to a clip of some type?

 

black plastic clip that rivets on


the black bits on top of the skirts

 

I know the ones for a 3dr are £1.86 each at our local dealer