A6 - Removing Rear License Plate - Car Forum

08-26-2004, 02:36 AM

Having a devil of a time trying to remove the rear license plate. All four screws are frozen to the backers. All I've managed to do so far is break one of the screw backers. The last time I tried this (a year ago) I had to take the car to the dealer to have it removed.

08-26-2004, 02:36 AM

Dale,
A surefire way would be to remove the heads of the screws with a Dremel
cutoff wheel, then apply PB Blaster or something to the stud and turn it out
with vice grips when it gets free. When you replace the screws, put some
anti-sieze compound on the threads before screwing them in.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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"Dale Webler" <dwebler@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
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Having a devil of a time trying to remove the rear license plate. All four
screws are frozen to the backers. All I've managed to do so far is break
one of the screw backers. The last time I tried this (a year ago) I had to
take the car to the dealer to have it removed.

08-26-2004, 02:36 AM

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:51:25 GMT, "Dale Webler" <dwebler@wi.rr.com>
wrote:

Last week I removed my plates that had been on a car for 10 years. One
I unscrewed and the other needed some Liquid Wrench and a pair of
pliers. The pliers worked like a charm.

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08-26-2004, 02:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
Dale Webler Guest Posts: n/a	A6 - Removing Rear License Plate Having a devil of a time trying to remove the rear license plate. All four screws are frozen to the backers. All I've managed to do so far is break one of the screw backers. The last time I tried this (a year ago) I had to take the car to the dealer to have it removed. -->

08-26-2004, 02:36 AM	#2 (permalink)
Steve Sears Guest Posts: n/a	Re: A6 - Removing Rear License Plate Dale, A surefire way would be to remove the heads of the screws with a Dremel cutoff wheel, then apply PB Blaster or something to the stud and turn it out with vice grips when it gets free. When you replace the screws, put some anti-sieze compound on the threads before screwing them in. Cheers! Steve Sears 1987 Audi 5kTQ 1980 Audi 5k 1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes (SPAM Blocker NOTE: Remove SHOES to reply) "Dale Webler" <dwebler@wi.rr.com> wrote in message news:NZOac.18021$z%1.2986@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com... Having a devil of a time trying to remove the rear license plate. All four screws are frozen to the backers. All I've managed to do so far is break one of the screw backers. The last time I tried this (a year ago) I had to take the car to the dealer to have it removed.

08-26-2004, 02:36 AM	#3 (permalink)
ccnewto@rogers.com Guest Posts: n/a	Re: A6 - Removing Rear License Plate On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:51:25 GMT, "Dale Webler" <dwebler@wi.rr.com> wrote: Last week I removed my plates that had been on a car for 10 years. One I unscrewed and the other needed some Liquid Wrench and a pair of pliers. The pliers worked like a charm. >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C41784.37268610 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Having a devil of a time trying to remove the rear license plate. All = >four screws are frozen to the backers. All I've managed to do so far is = >break one of the screw backers. The last time I tried this (a year ago) = >I had to take the car to the dealer to have it removed. >------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C41784.37268610 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = >charset=3Diso-8859-1"> ><META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Having a devil of a time trying to = >remove the rear=20 >license plate.  All four screws are frozen to the backers.  = >All I've=20 >managed to do so far is break one of the screw backers.  The last = >time I=20 >tried this (a year ago) I had to take the car to the dealer to have it=20 >removed.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > >------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C41784.37268610-- >

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