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Trunk Trim Screws

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jerrybny

jerrybny

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Does anyone know what type of screws are holding the trunk trim in? They aren't straight or phillips. They look like a stright head but on both sides part of the slot looks ground down. Hope I described it well enough to identify. And hopefully its what all TR6's used to hold the trim in. thanks


OK After some investigation I found out that they are 1 way slotted. Here is how they describe them. Popular design installs with standard screwdriver. Reverse side cammed out to prevent unauthorized removal. So now the question is how the heck to you get them out besides drilling them?
 
Never seen a trim board with tamper proof screws. I used black headed Phillips point sheet metal on mine.
don
 
I also used black Phillips screws with metal gromets

The original screws in my car were just phillips... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/savewave.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/england.gif
 
Ditto on the Phillips.

The One-Way slotted parts soud like something from the DPO. Drilling out is one way to remove them. Since you won't be reusing them you can also try to grab the OD of the head with a fresh pair of Visegrips. As far as I know (and I make my living designing screws) there is not a good tool made to remove One-Way slotted parts. There is a special driver that fits over and around the head of the screw and you push down very hard on to rotate the part out. It doesn't work for beans if the parts are stuck at all; it just pops off the head. Try the Visegrips; they work better.
 
Can you access the bottom or thread point of the screws?
I had to undo a number of these by pinching onto the threads and winding them back out, not fun.
I have heard of people drilling two holes or dimples into the peaks of the unground heads and used a watchmakers pin wrench : < anchored here, to get them out
 
One other thing that you can do to remove these nasty little things is to take out the Dremel and grind another slott across the head where it is at it's highest. You won't be able to put alot of torque onto it that way, but you might be able to get them out if they aren't rusted too bad.
You are just going to have to try some different things to see what works.
My question is: why? Who the heck puts Tamper Resistant screws into their boot in the first place? Arggghh!
 
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