Easy door sill (scuff plate) mod

Not sure if this has been addressed. My door sills have been broken for a while, would never stay securely attached. Couldn't seem to find anything on it. Anyways, cost me $5 works perfect and took 5 minutes to do. Saved me from spending $200 on new sills.

Tools needed:

Part from Napa:


1. Remove door sill (4 screws)
2. Install nylon nuts:

3. Cut broken tabs from door sill:

4. Screw back in (don't over tighten):

Done fixed

 

Freakin' geneous!

I'm totally doing this. Mine have been loose for, well, like 10 years... Might even stop on the way home today...

I actually feel kinda dumb for having not thought of this.

 

lol

 

Don't know what I've been waiting for. Just too lazy, I guess, to fix my problem door sill plate. Thank you very much for showing us the NAPA part numbers and for the rest of your post.

 

Good thinking OP, I need to do this now!

 

Geenyuss fix. Thank you for the part numbers.

 

This needs a sticky.

 

Thanks for the likes just wanted to share a fix with everyone. Hope it helps!

 

Great idea!!

 

thank you

 

Simple fixes are sometimes the best fixes. Thanks GEENYUSS.

 

I'm doing this next weekend. Great idea!

 

Thank you sir! My drivers side has broken tabs as well and won't stay down.

 

thanks!

 

I was so excited that I didn't read carefully. I thought, "Where'd he get those plastic nut things? Everything is in Spanish". So, I scrolled up and looked again. I see "Nylon Nuts". That helps. But where did he get them? I looked again, and I see you typed, "Part from napa". Ah! Great.

Then I see the giant "NAPA" on the damn bag.

Thanks, man.

 

Lol in one of the rows at napa they have these boards with a bunch of different fasteners, nuts, bolts etc should be on there somewhere. Think I paid 5.99

 

Two out of four tabs are broken in my driver side plate. I was not ready to spent 80 bucks for other than that perfectly good part. I was thinking the same solution trying different "nuts" (including drywall screws) but I couldn't find anything that would fit and not end up inside the rocker panel. Now I know the correct Napa part. It is on my shopping list. Thank you.

 

Great fix to an ancient first gen problem! I don't have a NAPA nearby here, but found the same nuts made by Dorman at a giant online retailer. Here's a pic with the part number:

 

Nice fix, now if only I could keep the plastic cover on the side of the drivers seat from falling off. Might try to adapt this for that