Quote Originally Posted by herby0001 View Post
With a stud extractor, you drill a hole the size you're told, screw the jobbie into the hole. As it's a left handed thread, the more you tighten it, the more it digs in and it'll start unscrewing the stud.

Similar thing happened to me with a rocker cover bolt. Shat myself, but the extractor saved me!
Thanks for that Herby ...... found a "backstreet" VW specialist and they're going to do it sometime this week for £50 ...... that'll save the underpants .....