Nudge Bars

I purchased the nudge bars from Europa Spares, complete with over riders.
They are IVA compliant, so I am reliably informed, and seem to be very good quality.

The rears are easy to fit. There are support brackets in place inside the boot and under the rear chassis rail. The rear bars from Europa come with tubes that fit through the body so we don't need separate chrome tubes here.

The holes are marked on the body, but check for exact location to get the bar central and level.
Drill out the holes and go all the way through into the support brackets. Using some 10mm threaded tube, locate the bars into place. You may need some washers against the brackets to even up the bar if there is a difference in exact location of the brackets that are bonded into the body.
Here I have temporarily fitted with nuts in place of the over riders to get the positioning correct.

The front bars are more difficult. We will need to source some chrome tubing to cover over the 10mm threaded bars. AK will supply two right angle brackets to fit inside the inner wing.

First assemble the over riders onto the bar, then insert just the top two threaded bars into the upper holes of each over rider. Offer up to the body and when happy with it being central and level, drill the holes to 8mm. I started with 3mm drill perpendicular to the body surface, then a 6mm drill at an angle finally a 8mm drill angled in line with how the threaded bar will enter the body. Then open up with a round file until we are about 2mm larger than the threaded bar. Now we will have the exact position for the two lower holes once we have the bar in place and located in the upper holes.

Fit the AK supplied bracket to the inner front wing and mark where the four threaded bars will meet with it. Here drill oversized holes as we'll need some variance to move around in whilst getting the bars dead central in the body work holes. Note that when tightening the brackets to the inner wing, they may distort and want to pull the threaded bars out of position so make sure everything is square.


Here we see the lower bar is set to low in the bodywork hole after mounting with the bracket.
That is ok as the hole needs to open up more to accept the chrome tube that will cover the threaded bar. So in that case I just open up the hole in  one direction until the bar is central again and I have enough clearance for the chrome tube.



To save the wear and tear on the chrome tube, I used aluminium tubes of the same size to test fit and eek out the holes to the correct size.
I think next time I'll just go with over riders and lose the bars.