2010 Tightening Down Loose Rear Horizontal Stabilizer

WHAT- 2010 Tightening Down Loose Rear Horizontal Stabilizer
HOW-

1. REMOVE TRUNK DOOR INTERIOR PANELING. Use plastic pry tool to remove at least up to 2x parts of the trunk door paneling. Plastic pry tool over a metal screw driver, helps to avert paint damage. Here is where I found 2x loose bolt nuts loosely bouncing around within the paneling.

2. TIGHTEN DOWN BOLTS. The missing bolt-nuts were obvious upon visual inspection. I hand tightened them down with a 10mm socket tool. Seems the nuts feel loose over natural wear and tear of 236,000 miles. For good measure and preventive maintenance, I tightened down all the 10mm nuts on the rear door.

3. CLEAN DOWN. While under the paneling I cleaned down all the metal and plastic paneling with alcohol wipies for good preventive maintenance.

4. BUTTON UP IN REVERSE.

5. Whoala.