read this thread from the start its all there At work
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Rivnuts are easy, you can buy the proper setting tool or do it with a couple of spanners, couple of spanners worked for me.

http://home.btconnect.com/astro-site/pulling_rivnuts.htm

ad210358 wrote:

Rivnuts are easy, you can buy the proper setting tool or do it with a couple of spanners, couple of spanners worked for me.

http://home.btconnect.com/astro-site/pulling_rivnuts.htm

Thanks for that, will give it a go. To be fair I HAVE read the thread but no-one actually describes how they worked without a specific tool. Unless of course I'm being a complete idiot and have missed it! Very possible!

Cheers! HSE, td4 - Stornoway Grey - full alpaca interior - 2011 front facelift - privacy glass.
Just added side steps, replaced the yellow side lights & body coloured handle and wing mirror covers. Now for the spoiler!

Use a couple of Combition spanners, one to hold and the other to tighten

if a vanner can do it it must be simple  At work
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Do some Freelanders already have nutserts fitted?

I Fitted my own sidesteps to a 2007 but deff didn't have to fit any nutserts.

I better go and check to see how I fixed them

fitted ones are horizontal into the sill, you have to fit the vertical ones At work
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Don't need them on mine. Have the deployable side steps  ______________________
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Will give it a go and report back. Cheers for the replies folks.


After this I need to persuade the wife to let me get a spoiler. Oh and then body coloured door handles.  HSE, td4 - Stornoway Grey - full alpaca interior - 2011 front facelift - privacy glass.
Just added side steps, replaced the yellow side lights & body coloured handle and wing mirror covers. Now for the spoiler!

Well I cut the sills, fitted the outside bolts etc but the rivnuts defeated me. Called A few places and Pentland LR offered to fit them the next day for £90. Took then an hour and a half, made me a coffee while I waited and I got a wander around the gorgeous showroom. Fantastic service.


Must admit the car looks even better now. Man should not have feelings of such love for a car!  HSE, td4 - Stornoway Grey - full alpaca interior - 2011 front facelift - privacy glass.
Just added side steps, replaced the yellow side lights & body coloured handle and wing mirror covers. Now for the spoiler!

I got mine fitted at cradocks in cannock, they had the genuine black side tubes for £90 and fitted them for £90, bargain!!! When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car