Please help me find this part

Scottorama said:

Sheet metal screws and mine is better than new. Cheap design by ford, they should know better.

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Sounds doable. Will try to give it a shot.

I assume these were pointed screws, bolted all the way thru the plastic frame to the backplate on the seat assemble. Can you tell what length screws you used.

Maybe be better if we remove the carpet - if it is doable , drill down the screws and paste the carpet over it again to look more neat. A thought anyways.

I believe they were 3/8 inch.... long enough to go through the plastic and into the metal cross beam underneath

Did try with doing a similar bolting with screws solution, however dont have the drilling tools niether experience to do so.

Will try looking for some alternative.
One approach I was thinking was to peel off the carpet - then drilling holes in underlying (possibly cardboard plate) - and then using long zip ties to pass thru the board holes and tie them up with the metal cross beam underneath. Carpet can be glued on or pasted over it.

Not sure how successful it is going to be.

Will post updates.

I wonder if installing the ford cargo mat that covers the back of the 3rd row would be sufficient solution. It would also help prevent this damage in the first place.

Just some update for this (almost 3 years old) problem. So today I buckled up to go to the local work smiths market where mostly parts and accessories work is done.

Found a reasonable worker who assured that it will be done with none/minimal intervention in a durable way and nothing visible from outside.

So trusted him - he took out the whole bay/trim from the car trunk - mainly held on by two large bolts.





Next he put a couple of cut screws (not pointed heads) with extra washers and nuts used as spaces, and bolted them from the inside - essentially passing thru the metallic beam and the foldable board from inside.






Apparantely they held on well and did the trick. After refitting the trim, the work seems quite neat and nothing is visible from the outside. So mission complete.







Hope it might gives your local workshop staff some ideas to try to get it fixed.

Thanks.