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Managed to bump our Orion on a wooden post, no damage to the body but scrapped the rear plastic screwed on bumper which flexed and the screws fixing the triangular reflector which also retained the bumper around the back of the van, popped out.  Trying to re-attach the reflector found that the 1" screws wouldn't grip and after removing the bumper found that they are simply screwed into the thin GRP outer shell through a dab of silicone, this looks really flimsy and I expected to see something a bit more substantial or a rawplug or rigid piece of material to fix into. 

The screw holes have beome enlarged and thought it would be a simple exercise of infilling the hole with some form of GRP filler and reapplying silicone dab hey presto...not so lucky.  Checking with local Bailey Approved Workshop they want to attach a plate to fix the 2 screws into, presumably either bonding the plate to the body as I can't imagine making more screw holes and want £100 for their efforts.

Has anyone else come across this problem or have had to infill screw holes on ther alu-tech GRP body work?

Quote: Originally posted by Andy Higham on 14/5/2013

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As I said on the other post, squidge some sealant into the holes then push in some some rawl plugs. then screw into the rawl plug

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