Just had the two brace sections off to take my oil cooler out to do both gaskets and the oil and coolant o rings. When removing the bolts one of the captivated nuts came loose on the passenger side. Then when going back together one on the driver side decided to break loose also. Seems like they are only press fitted into the strut tower as it doesn’t seem to take much torque to break them free anyway. Anyone had this happen before? Can they just be tack welded? Or would a rivnut be the way to go? The first issue would actually be getting them undone now.

Common issue , grind them off and nut and bolt does the job

Nice one, that will do for me!

Socket onto the underside of the captive. Tighten them back up, to reseat them, then undo again and apply anti seize compound

Not sure there is a nut as such. Seem to be round and pressed into the strut tower with nothing on the other side.

You can get a socket onto it

This is how my car came back fron Landrover Chester after the year 7 cam belt change. 2016 L494 HSE

That’s bloody awful. What did you say and how did they rectify it?

Disco_Mikey wrote:

You can get a socket onto it