Heater Blanking Plate

[AndrewGP]

Potentially numpty question but hopefully with a straight forward answer. I got rid of my heater recently and fitted the blanking plate from CC. Despite it being too big, I needed the to use the car (those blats do't drive themselves!) so I did a temp fix. Well now is the time to sort it properly.

 

What's the best way of making a neat and tidy job, should I trim the top or can I drill the scuttle rivets out, bend the metal away and 'tuck it in'?

 

Also, do these blanking plates come like this on the factory cars?

 

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2890/11010558224_cdd954820f_b.jpg

[Mark w]

Drill out the top rivets and tuck it in .

 

Much neater job .

 

I siliconed mine before I rivitted .

 

 

 

 

Edited by - Mark W on 23 Nov 2013 17:05:52

[AndrewGP]

Mark, thanks. I take it after drilling the rivets there is enough 'give' in the ali that it bends enough to tuck the blanking plate under without cutting it? Did you then drill through it to redo the rivets?

[Mark w]

peter

I found it an easy fit but as you surmise the top holes didn't line up so I just drilled through the original scuttle holes to allow it to be fixed at the top .

 

The only odd thing now is that I have half a dozen black rivets and the rest are painted blue .

 

PS I used two bolts to fix the panel in to the rivnuts normally used to fix the heater ( mine is a 2004 chassis , others might be different ) so that the panel was centrally located and in the correct position tight to the vertical bulkhead before I riveted the rest in place .

[AndrewGP]

Thank you Mark, sounds pretty straight forward.

 

And who's Peter? 😬

[Domus]

And who's Peter? toothy smiley

 

Me 😬