BudgetPhoenix
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Kansas
- Car(s)
- 2009 GLI, 2016 GTI
A while back I accidentally snapped off one of the rear welded nuts for the passenger side seat frame bolt. I was using my cordless impact to get the bolts started and I'm guessing it cross threaded but idk why it snapped the welds off so easily. Pretty dumb of me but oh well. So basically I have a spinning bolt with a nut plate stuck to the bottom on the underside of the unibody frame. I looked under the plastic shield under the car below the passenger seat and there doesn't appear to be any access to the nuts. Anyone had something like this happen and fix it? I'm guessing my only options at this point are to cut a hole in the bottom of the frame to see if im able to access it then weld it back up, or cut the bolt in half from the top, and see if I can try to tap the hole for a larger size bolt, but idk how many threads I could cut into metal to where it actually is able to tighten down, also that would make the bottom half of the cut bolt fall down into the hole and hopefully it wouldnt rattle around.