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In talking to Ford and the installers it sounds like rivnuts are the way to go. The guy at the installer called the work "embarrassing" so it sounds like it was the back of the house guys that tried to cover it up. I checked the specs on the steel rivnuts and they are more impressive than I...

Good idea. I'd have to see if i can get a hand up the fender to tape off the back of the nut on the front one. I'm not too worried about pull out as this is mostly a sheer load. I'm ready to just drill it out and weld in a threaded bung myself. hardest part would be rust protection for the...

Brought it to the Ford body shop. They were even wowed. Back to OEM is probably too invasive. Welding, paint, and bedliner would be a lot of work. They actually suggested rivnuts. At least for the real bad one. I'll see what the cap installer wants to do to fix it and go from there. I was...

I saw someone recommend one of the hand held induction heaters. Unfortunately too late for that now. I was thinking rivnut for this one as this weld nut could be cut off. There 2 in the front that were done like this and one that the messed up so bad they didn't even put a bolt in. Seeing the...

That's not bad idea for this one. It's the 3 in the front that are also like this that I'm worried about. Would have to get way up in the fender.

That's what I plan on doing. I won't be able to get there until Wednesday so there's some cooling off period. Now I just need to find out what making it right looks like.

It's slightly tapered and has some flutes cut into the first half inch or so. Self tapping might have been generous. I'm leaning towards taking it to the dealer body shop and getting their input and/or quote to fix it and bringing that to the people who installed it. I'm kicking myself...

I had a Smartcap installed by a RSI labeled "Pro Builder". The Smartcap uses the the front and rear tie down points and the bolting location for brackets instead of using clamps like other caps. I'm assuming during the removal of the OEM bolts some of the heads snapped off. Their solution was to...