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01-02-2011, 12:56 PM | #1 | ||
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Hey all
Just a word of advice to all who do their own work on the car...... After I changed my shock to ST170 ones I had notice I did a crap job undoing a few clips in the trim. I have left the trim half done up (yes I am that lazy) for a while but when I was trying to fit a ST170 snorkel I had noticed it was held in by the same push clip. I rang Ford to find out how much a clip was, because I needed 5. They quoted me $4.54, I thought okay for all 5 then he said no. EACH! OUCH!!!! here is the little bastard So I went on eBay and found 25 clips being sold in a box, with shipping all together came to $21. I bought it, and lucky I did because I f@@@@d up the push clip for the snorkel hahahaha. If I was to pay Ford for 6 it would of ended up costing me $27.30!!!!!!! Now I have a fair few spare just "in case", for next time. Seems there are fair few bits held by the same clip. btw here is a link to the type. I am sure there are many others out there. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...928027&guest=1 So my advice find out the part number from ford and look it up elsewhere to find cheaper alternatives. Anyone else had similar issues/fixes?
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01-02-2011, 01:12 PM | #2 | ||
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hahaha yes! Those are called scrivets.
Good find on ebay. I have stacks of those on my XR5!
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01-02-2011, 01:15 PM | #3 | ||
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I've bought them from the Ford dealer before but no where near as expensive. I think he may have quoted you for a bag, because they are not sold individually. They are sold in plastic bags of about 5 or 6
It's been a couple of years since I got some, so maybe things have changed, but I remember thinking one of the cheaper parts from Ford
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01-02-2011, 01:58 PM | #4 | ||
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Yeah I was shocked when they quoted that price.
But he assured me it was just for one. quote from Ford spare parts dude. "do you really want or need 1 for $4.54?" BTW that was Ford Spare parts Arncliffe Sydney.
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01-02-2011, 02:43 PM | #5 | ||
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Yeah you can pick up a small packet of these (maybe 10 or so) for a few $$$'s at supercheap...from memory they were about $2-$3 for the pack...I noticed them a while back...
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01-02-2011, 06:31 PM | #6 | ||
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I have plenty of those at work
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01-02-2011, 11:18 PM | #7 | ||
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01-02-2011, 11:22 PM | #8 | |||
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02-02-2011, 12:26 AM | #9 | |||
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Probably.............. I rang in the afternoon got a different dude, same response $4.54 each...... Maybe it is that spare parts department or the water........
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02-02-2011, 10:14 AM | #10 | ||
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Man I hate those damn clips.
I know you can buy em individually at Spectrum Rubber out at St Mary's here in Sydney but knowing those guys, they wont be cheap. The 25 for $6 sounds like a good buy Steve.
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02-02-2011, 11:46 AM | #11 | ||
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they're actually quite easy to remove & re-use...as demonstrated here. i saw think like a while back, doesn't take much to get used to .
once in a while you get one that is just stuck, but not often
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02-02-2011, 02:16 PM | #12 | |||
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Bloody hell is that how your suppose to do it!!!!!!!!
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02-02-2011, 04:20 PM | #13 | |||
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Far easier to use a philips head and 'unscrew' them. Just gotta get the right pressure between downward force and turning and they will screw right out. I haven't ever had an issue getting them out that way...then use fingernail/flathead under the base part of it...
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04-02-2011, 02:06 PM | #14 | |||
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each to their own i guess, as long as we can reuse these stupid things
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