purchased my 8 a few weeks ago, finally was able to get the liscense plate so that I could remove the 30 day tag in the rear window. Only problem was, some idiot at the dealership decided to run a self-tapping screws into the nuts which are under the rear bumper that the liscense plate fastens to. This caused one of the t-nuts to break off. My questions are :
1. Does anyone know the thread size of the nut?
2. Is it actually a t-nut, it has a special shape from what I can tell.

just curious if anyone has details...

 

Some similar tales here:

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-tech-garage-22/rear-license-plate-mount-fell-31242/

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discussion-3/q-regarding-mounting-rear-license-plate-33833/

Sounds like the dealer needs to fix it.

 

thanks for the links, I am going to call the dealer today and raise hell. whatever idiot put a self tapping screw into a threaded hole should be fired!!! stupid people **** me off, especially when it comes to my new 32k car....

 

hell yeah make the idiots fix it...and watch them...they'll probly duct tape the plate to your bumper or something

 

Morons w/ jobs working on our cars, what a feeling of security.