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I noticed the striker on my 24 touring rear door was loose. Tried to tighten it, nothing. Realized the screw is just stuck in the whole, no nut on the other side. As best as I can tell, the only way to get at the other side of the door post is by removing the front seat upholstery. Am I wrong? I'm thinking I need to make/find a threaded insert. Thoughts?

I don't know if the screw goes into a nut or into wood. If it screws into wood, you may be able to glue a plug into the screw hole to fix it.

Steve, it depends which screw it is. The one photo is from the front seat looking back at the wood structure, you can see that there are two square nuts and machine screws close together. These are the backside of the striker plate for a 1293/24 touring. The other photo shows what it looks like from the front, suggesting that the two center ones are bolts, while the outer two are wood screws. I hope this helps.

-Joshua

Well, the screw that came out is a machine screw. I only remember seeing 2 screw holes, not 4 but I'll look again after work.

It probably was a machine screw with a nut on the other side that was put on sometime back to help hold on the striker. The hinges on my 21 were held on by at least one machine screw and nut. I saw this when I restored the car so I put it back the same way on the hinge and added a machine screw with nut on the striker too. Makes since to me to do it that way. It may have been that way originally but can’t remember.