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My boot lid plinth has been on and off several times and as a result, the outboard fixings are worn beyond use.

Does anybody have any alternative fixing methods please?

I guess not then.

Ive only took the plinth off once.

I wonder why they used nuts on the middle 2 fixings and the silly fixings on the 2 end ones ?

As a follow-up, I can't find any alternative methods of securing the outboard ends of the plinth and therefore, every time I raise the boot lid other than from the centre of the plinth, it moves and twangs back into place alarmingly

Does anybody have any of those interference fit thread cutting fixings that were used originally that I could buy please? I feel sure that, with a little PTFE tape wrapped around the post, I could get a reasonably securely fitted plinth again

OK, I got the fixings - thanks to Mick

A bit late, but this might help somebody with a similar problem.
I bought a facelift plinth to use in my reverse camera tests (mounted underneath the lip). Anyway when it arrived, both the outer plastic pins had been snapped off due to some ham-fisted idiot not knowing how they work. I complained, but they said it was OK when shipped. What a joke. But I digress.
The pins with the silly self-cutting nuts were inside the plinth, so I needed to refit them strongly enough to take those nuts again. I located the pins in position with super glue. That did a good enough job to allow me to strengthen the fractured area using good thick dollops of epoxy resin. Result was stronger then original.
Now it occurs to me that a similar idea could be used for replacing the plastic pins with proper screws. If the pin base area is worked on so as to accommodate the head of a suitably sized bolt, you could set the heads in epoxy and do away with the flimsy plastic pins and the silly self-cutting nuts.

TC