Quote Originally Posted by slater View Post
on northern cars... you just leave that nut alone. sure, you can grind the stud down... but you don't touch the nut. i think i have successfully removed 3 out of maybe 8 that i've removed. the other 5 were lonely and brought the stud with them.
That might explain why there isn't one on my driver's side. I was wondering why that side was only being held on by the plastic piece further back along the seam.