Broke a seat mounting bolt head off

derekhay316

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I broke a seat mounting bolt head off and the rest is still in there. Any ideas on removing it??? The metal is pretty damn hard to drill out :(
 
Honestly, drill it out, all I can think off sorry, I did the same, for now my passengers just feel like they are in a rocking chair.
 
This is a stretch, as I haven't actually looked at my car. But
do the bolts extend long enough through the underside of the car
so that you might be able to get vise grips on the threads from underneath the car. (I had a Mustang once that the bolts stuck completely through to the underside of the car by a good 5/8".)
Of course, I don't even know if you can access them from underneath the car. Just a thought.
 
The same thing happened to me the night before Carlisle last year. It was the drivers side front left bolt. I couldn't get the remaining bolt out so I just left it there, drilled another hole directly in front of it, and resecured the seat with a new bolt! The bolt hole in the seat rail is oblong instead of round (at least on my 90 it was), so there should still be room to insert another bolt through and into the new hole...

Good luck!
 
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