I want to romove not work around the trunk lid lock. Then put it back. Any suggestions?

 

What year is it?

 

2004...............

 

Open the trunk & at the bottom directly under the lock cylinder there is a plate with a rivit, drill the rivit out & remove the plate & u can pull the lock cylinder out

 

And when i want to lput back the cylinder. How do i go about replacing the plate that has the rivit in it? Could i just use a larger self tap screw or a nut bolt? Seems to me popping that rivit will do nothing for me. Its just a plate. A bumper or buffer. The rivited plate has nothing to do with the cylinder. If i can reach the cylinder through that hole why not directlt from in side the panel itself.?

 

The plate has forks that go up & hold the cylinder in & just put a new rivit in when u wanna put it back in

 

yep thanks. Instead of drilling out the rivit i took a wedge fork and popped it out. The whole rivit. When i was done replacing the unit back together i just took a forming hammer and popped it back in. Tapped the metal back down. Looks like it was never removed. Thanks again. This topic can be deleted.