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GaryS1953
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May 03, 2017

Repair hole in wheel well

We recently "flipped" the axels on our small fifth wheel. With the extra room above the wheels we've now found how the mice are getting in, through a large hole right above the tires. There is a hole on each side above the rear tires, I'm guessing caused by dips in the road when the wheels were closer to the well. I could just patch the holes which are roughly 5"x8", but I'm thinking of lining the whole upper part of the well with 5' x 10" strips of aluminum. My question is what's the best way to attach the aluminum to the soft plastic material of the wheel well? My thought is rivets, but not sure how that will hold. I read you should place a washer on the plastic side, but there is no way to do that in this case. Any thoughts?