Hello,

Well, I just got a pair of white LEDs from Ebay $6 with ship'g. I thought I upgrade my license plate light to these. The replacement should be simple, just a couple of philips screws and voila LEDs...but the darn screw head is made of some cheap @$5 metal...the friggin thing stripped [:@]. And yes I used just your average philips head srewdriver for the job. What to do?!? Some of you might know that the screw head is about 1/8" diameter. Any idea how I can get the screw out??

 

Go to Sears and get some regular old screw extractors, shouldn't be more thanten bucks for a set of four.

 

Great idea! Thanks! While I'm at it, I'm going to pick up a couple of new screws..hopefully they have the same exact ones...

 

So I was thinking, if I'm able to unscrew this stripped head with a extractioner, can I still screw it back on??

 

Funny thing is the exact same thing happened to me. I wanted to replace my lisc plate lights with LEDS too. Cheap thing stripped. I have yet to extract it though. I would assume you'd want to replace the messed up screw once you extract it and not reuse it.

 

why and how would you reinstall a stripped screw?

 

i wonder if this thing really works- http://www.4grabit.com/Default.asp?bhjs=0

most items on TV dont so i doubt it but it works the same way as the sears screw extractor but seems to do it all in 1 step instead of drilling first, then using the extractor bit

 

Pretty cool commercial. The guy sounds like some Movie trailer narrator. Anyway, yeah I think I definitely gotta get one of those extractor. But once I get the screw out, where or how can I get a same exact size. I've tried HomeDepot and Autozone, none of them have the same size screw. any ideas on a good place where they specialize in screws???

 

The're nothing special, any screw thats roughly the same diameter will work. Audi has them in a bin in the parts dept. if you wanna grab a hand full of them.

 

screws are the one thing the dealer isn't bad about. i've even gotten some for free before just cause the guy workin the counter didn't feel like ringing it up and walking me to the counter to pay lol