All I wanted to do...

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...was take out my seats so I could lay down some sound deadening material. I was so looking forward to getting that done this weekend until I ran into the BOLT FROM HELL.

It's a passenger side seat bolt on the seat rail closest to the door. All of the other bolts came out just fine except for this mf'n one. I swear that feckin thing must be welded in. Ok - I've run into this before - there's lots of things I can try. Gotta rule out PB or any sort of loosening spray because I can't get to the threads... fair enough.

Lemme try a smaller sized socket. No go. Ok - I can dremel down the sides and make some nice flat surfaces to grab onto. Nope, try again. Hmm... maybe I can slot the thing and get it out with a large screwdriver bit - hell no the metal on the head is too soft and the bit just fucks up the slot. Vice grips? Ha! Try again.

Wait - they make all sorts of cool doo-dads designed to get out rounded off bolts! Off to the store I run and buy a bunch of these miracle workers...none of them work. Ok, now the head is so fucked up that it's useless.

Time to dremel off the flange so I can at least get the seat out of the fecking way and then I'll be able to drill that bitch out. So I run through about three cut-off wheels and I can't get enough of the head flange off to be able to lift the damned seat out. The working space is terrible, the fact that the bolt sits in a recess makes it nearly impossible to get a good angle on the fecking thing. I can't even get at the bolt from the backside to flaten the sides to fit a socket!!!

What kind of shit soft metal are these bolts made of anyway?!? Everything I try just shaves off more metal. Here I sit with a massively cut up bolt - two days wasted trying to get the fecking thing out and no closer to success than when I started. Ain't that a bitch. I think I need a torch to cut the fecking thing out, but that would probably just set the interior on fire.

If I haven't tried something that one of you knows works well then please let me know. I give up for today and probably for about a week until I can tackle it again. I'm fucking pissed!!!!

Thanks for letting me vent.