where's the best place to get the black plastic fastners used to hold fenders, etc.? dealer? i changed the transmission fluid and broke a couple cuz it seems the heat made them brittle.
thanks,
larry

 

Your best bet is to probably pick up a couple at the dealership. How many did you break? You can probably get by with one or two missing.

 

You may want to try a few of our site vendors:

Acura Parts Source
http://www.acurapartssource.com

Acura of Orange Park (Jason)
http://www.hananiaautos.com

Hansel Prestige Acura
http://www.prestigeacura.com

Acura of Lynnwood
Phone number: 888-231-5996

 

thanks. i broke 2, but i also have some others missing from my front bumper when i redid my grill.

 

They were pretty expensive from my dealer like 9 bucks for 2

 

If you want them right away then get them from dealer and pay an arm and a leg.

If you can wait a week or so then get them from ebay as there are Chinese companies that sell them by the boat load for dirt cheap. I paid $7 shipped for 40 of the short one and $9 for 40 of the long ones. Good to have them around if you are taking bumpers off all the time

 

Good to know. I don't need 40 but I may pick some up.

 

30 of the long ones

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/30PCS...item4aaf8e1d75


40 short ones.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FM-PU...item2314e5d953

long ones are 20mm in length and shorts are 13mm.

 

^^^^

Awesome JnC. I will probably pick some up later.

 

i found some on fleabay, $5.50 for 15 of them (including shipping) not bad!

 

No problem.

One quick heads up though, the quality of plastic is not as good as OEM. Its a tad bit more brittle than the OEM ones. Even then they work just as good, I usually spray them with a bit of WD-40 before throwing them on.

 

I usually leave a note in my car and ask them to replace any of the broken or missing ones. they are pretty nice about it usually, but I guess it helps that the dude who usually works on my car is filipino and I'm filipino haha

 

zip ties?

 

My friend who is filipino, visited the phillippines and brought me back a shirt, it said "super flying ipis" hehehehe.

off topic yes.

 

NICE lol

 

I actually took a few of them off to make trans service easier. As long as both the bolts and 1 or 2 push pins are there, your fine.

 

Looks like I'm way lay to the game, but www.clipsandfasteners.com is what I've used the past few years.

 

thanks for sharing. the shipping prices is kinda high, but they do have a wide variety of clips and will get to you in 2-3 days with priority shipping that's for sure.

i have a few clips that i broke while trying to remove the rear c pillars while installing my coilovers for the rear. near the air bag outlining thing

 

my dealer charged me 40 for a pack of 10

 

sounds about right

 

$40 for 10 measley clips!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WUTTTTTTTTTT