Rear Door Check Strap Bolt

The stud / bolt / lug holding the tailgate check strap to the body has gone.
Disappeared.
Lost.

Presumably, it fell out sometime after the circlip on the top went 'ping' out into some traffic. I can't find it (never found the circlip) so the rear door now opens out well past 90 degrees.

Is this an MOT failure?

Can anyone tell me what the missing part is called, and how I can fit it?


Yes, I should have fixed the circlip earlier, but there wasn't enough stud / bolt / lug to fit the circlip to. I seem to have a knack for buying previously broken equipment!

Well,

thanks to Discool's response to another thread (which wasn't there when I searched!) I have the part number for the circlip. From that, Google led me on to find the part number for the pin but I'm still at a loss on the MOT front and as to procedure because I can't see how to gain access to fit the pin.

Neither my Haynes nor the LandRover Workshop Manual offer any clues.

Anyone ?

Can't say I've done this ... but if you take the rear bumper off you then have access to the open end of the rear body cross member, don't know if you can reach the bolt from there or if it is welded in ...

Have heard of people who cross drill the bolt and fit an 'R' pin or split pin ...

May be have a look see what is there and what access is like ...

Thanks Dippypud.

Guess I'd better start spraying things with WD40 this weekend so I can get at it in January and in the meantime, I'll drop a bolt through.