I am trying to remove my trunk's light bar ( thing with bow-tie around key hole ) and I am not sure how to get it off. The things holding it on are plastic studs with thin one thread bolts on them. I have tried to remove the two outermost bolts only to have them just snap off with a simple twist. I have seen pictures of people remove, paint, and re-apply theirs but not sure how they did it. Does anyone know?

remove the nuts that hold on the light bar. the bolts are easy to break being they are plastic. you may have to get replacements from a junkyard.

Do the work at night, when its cooler. Twist slowly, and as flush as possible. I broke my first two, and then the rest were fine.

Good luck!

actually if you work on plastic while its cold it would be more brittle then if it were warm.

Mine seemed to be reverse threaded which caused them to break, I also waited until evening and they seemed to come off with ease. The painting went ok, the side tails are not very good but the trunk bar is pretty good.

azncav wrote:actually if you work on plastic while its cold it would be more brittle then if it were warm.

Brittle, sure.

But the expansion under heat causes lot of friction. Enough usually to have high resistance when that crappy nut cuts into it.