Aux belt tensioner bolt. What to undo it with?

[Fantom]

Doing the aircon delete on my car and I'm stuck! I've taken the alternator and compressor off and am just removing the alternator bracket. There are two funny star bolts holing the tensioner in place. The bottom one came out with a 10mm spanner but it's the top one that I need out. The same spanner is loose on this one and a hex socket fits nice but can't put a ratchet on it due to no room. What have other people used to get this bolt undone?

 

[hansthebear]

Its an e-torx socket you need, E14 iirc.....

 

[Dan@SJM]

E12.

 

[Fantom]

Never even heard of that! My brother is going to make me up a tool so I'll try that first

 

[Fantom]

Thinking about it. There's no room to use an actual socket?

 

[hansthebear]

Theres room once the headlight and slam panel etc are out the way

 

[Fantom]

Ahhhh the instructions never said take the headlight out!! Slam panel is already out so not sure how I would remove the metal bit in the way. I'll have a look when I try again

 

[GrahamS]

I thought it was an e14 as well.

It's a female torx

 

[Dan@SJM]

E14 is for the lower crank locking pin plug.

 

[AlexW]

I have an E12 ratchet spanner for this job lol.

 

[Fantom]

I have an E12 ratchet spanner for this job lol.

Ah thats exactly what I need! Hopefully my brother will come up with something. Don't really want to buy a tool for a bolt I'll never come across again!