Post #1210841
2026-04-03 13:30 UTC
Of course the specific M8 screws that came with the drive shaft and the spread plates don't actually seem to be any listed Febi part, the only place I can find they exist is with this specific drive shaft listing.
Febi does have a part number for equivalent drive shaft screws, but they're not black, and are spline rather than hex. I twill totally do my head in to know that the left and right sets of bolts down there aren't the same. (Yes, my head, it has problems.)
The spread plates don't seem to have any sort of Febi part at all.
I have found bolt/plate sets on eBay for £too-much...
I think my mentally sound way to deal with this is to clean up the existing spreader plates and re-use them, and buy 12x of the spine head bolts. (£0.72 on "onlinecarparts.co.uk".)
So in the end I'll end up with the same amount of "extra" parts lying around as if I'd ordered the full set of 12 bolts in the first place. 🤡
Replies (2)
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@yvan@toot.ale.gd 2026-04-03 14:58
In fact I have just found a very annoying insurmountable asymmetry anyway. I thought I had detected my first major part ordering error for this lot. The rear shock top mounts, I got 2x Febi 10819, but they are not left/right symmetric, so I assumed I must have ordered two right side parts. But NO. It is supposed to be this way, and that's how it was on the car already (I just haven't removed the left yet). Presumably some random sort of manufacturing efficiency reason I guess, and maybe a part shared across various car models ... maybe on some of those that lower hole is actually used for something, as on the Fox it is not (and that's the asymmetry.)
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@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk 2026-04-03 13:46
@yvan Put 3 hex and 3 spline on each side.