Rusty Roof Bar Mounts

[billynibbles]

Firstly, apologies - I've seen this mentioned before and even ran a search to try to find all mentions of rust, but it's eluded me.

 

I seem to recall reading that someone has had a problem with rusty C4 roof bar mountings so the other day whilst cleaning the car, I levered up the flaps for a quick look.

 

There was no rust on body parts, but the four screw holes were looking like going that way, so I've 'vaselined' them.

 

Would it not also be a good idea to find four suitable bolts and fit them as blanking plates till someone actually wants to fit roof bars?

[Mat]

It was my post, here

 

I had put roofbars on my coupe last summer, tried to put them back on and because the roofbar mounts had gone rusty, the bolt got stuck, and i ended up snapping the bolt in the mount.

 

In hindsight i should have put loads of grease into the mouting holes when i took the roof bars off.

 

However, my Citroen dealer stripped the roof mount, retapped them, and filled them with gunk, all for free. (Thule also sent me some replaement bolts, free). The roofbars bolt on so much easier now.

 

And i have gotten some M6 bolts to put in the mounts when i remove the roofbars. Am a little concrened that they wont rust. But i cant find any plastic M6 bolts (yet - still hunting)

[billynibbles]

Good idea - plastic bolts would seem to be the way forward. I'm going to start looking too.

[Mat]

Good idea - plastic bolts would seem to be the way forward. I'm going to start looking too.

LMK if you find some, please