Incase anyone needs these in the future...

Mike

 

Are these still available new then? I've got the plastic ones at the moment and am tempted upgrade, but used ones are often quite beaten up.

 

Awesome! Just in time since I ordered the plates (used) yesterday!

They are no longer available new.

 

Thanks so much for uploading these!

 

If you have to get new hardware, the nuts they screw in to are also referred to as well nuts. They're rubber plugs with a brass insert, as the screw tightens into the insert they swell up and hold the panel in place.

Important part is a plastic washer between the screw and the scuff plate - this keeps the screw from marring the surface. This is also a good idea on carbon fiber replicas of the scuff plates.

Dale

 

I'd suggest using rivnuts for that application, not sure if you guys call them something else in the states.

 

Yep, I used rivnuts (nutserts?) when I polished and re-mounted my alloy sill plates.

Push or cut the stupid, stupid, rubber well-nuts out of the sills because they are a horrible design, and rivet some good threaded nutserts in, and finish off with some polished titanium torx screws for classiness.

All the stuffing around with the rubber well-nuts is not worth the hassle. Mine have been fantastic after this.

 

Thumbs up for this!

 

Use riv nuts, much nicer final product.

 

Great post, thanks!

 

+1. How hard are these to polish up? The aluminum finish I'm not so concerned about as long as there aren't any huge dents. But how to you clean up the anodized gold?

 

Bumping an old thread as I'm about to tackle this job myself.

What size rivnuts did you guys use? The holes on the door sills look like they're sized for M4 screws.

 

I can't remember the size of the nuts and screws, but I would note that the aluminum plates are paper thin. They scuff immediately and you can either buff them out every week or so or paint them with a thick clear coat. I chrome-plated mine after going through a set left raw.