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HOLY CRAP!!! I went to the dealer looking to buy a bag of plastic push clips that hold our engine plastics, and underpanels on, and they wanted $26.00 for a bag of 10!!!!

WTF is THAT!!!! $2.60 a piece for a plastic push clip!!!...I'm going to the autoparts store to get them...just figured I'd get everyones take on this

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You're not going to do much better there. I bought a clip for the engine plastics at UAP and it was $3.00 or so.

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in my toyota dealership they sold it a dollar each..a lil bit better price but still too high thumbsdown i lose those things like crazy cry

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yeah, I figured that it would be about a dollar a pop from the "stealership"...$10 a bag is a decent dealer price, but damn near $30...I told them to keep em

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Holy crap. For those plastic recycled pieces of crap???

There isn't a way that we can replace those with screws or actual bolts huh?


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the toyota service center near here gets the plastic push-pins for $0.46 each... ask for a manager and tell them what you need them for - play the guilt trip on them if they still insist on charging you $3/ea


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^^^^^ hehehehehe...I just noticed your new avatar...lmao...

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Originally Posted by robare99
You're not going to do much better there. I bought a clip for the engine plastics at UAP and it was $3.00 or so.

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My dealer ship just gave them to me

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yeah, I'm gonna try a different dealer...I went to one on the way to work this morning...was appauled when he said $26.00

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dude 26$$ is full of shit man! the hell!!

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I need plastics badly for my car, but i aint paying now damn near 30$ for some damn re-inforced plastic that cost cents to make!! ANywhere else we can things like this???

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any takers because I would like to know confused

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i paid 8 bucks for 10!!!!!!


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I know i got a good deal, i never knew that they rip people off that bad!!


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I didnt know that they tried to fuck us so bad by charging so much for some cheap shit, after taxes and shit it was almost 10, but not quite and i thought that was high!!


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i need some too. i lost a whole bunch of them and my damn underbody plastic is dragging too.

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I paid $.88 each for mines


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it's been covered~ lol they are hella expansive.


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thumbsdown boo!!! i hate going to toyota sometimes, i just know they are going to rip me off.

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I have a site that might help let me see if I can find it .

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actually i heard the clip is from honda...not toyota...

so basically, it's Honda that is ripping ppl off lol

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Once again - Autozone has assorted boxes of 12 for $2.98. They aren't OEM, and they had many sizes, so they let me take a few boxes outside to test the fitting. The ones for Ford work excellent. They have feathered plastic stems and are way tighter than OEM. Removing is slightly more difficult than the OEM, as you are basically prying them upward but these babies aren't going anywhere!!


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man just jack them grin

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or just tell them you dont know wtf happend and ur engine plastic just started to make noise and you check it and it was in the ground, they should give them to you free

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1.30 a piece at my dealership.

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i hit a animal or it rippedsome of my clips off and i had to pay like $40


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there was a thread on here a while ago. you can get a bag of 100 for like 20 bux. eek

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i got mine for $6 for pack of ten


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Hate to bring up old news, but I bought ten and got twelve or something like that. Enough to replace all my engine plastics (look at the recall thread to see). These are the same hard to get off mothers that go on the bottom of the underside plastics. I was originally quoted at .82 for them, then $1.20 each. I obviously don't see the problem. Are people here that poor that they can't afford $14.40, say for the whole month? Is that too much too ask? I don't mind at all and probably won't have to get more ever unless I lose one or two being stupid. I say it's a good investment on my part and I payed less than that.

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Originally Posted by RookieGTS
dude 26$$ is full of shit man! the hell!!
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dude 26$$ is full of shit man! the hell!!
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Originally Posted by robare99
You're not going to do much better there. I bought a clip for the engine plastics at UAP and it was $3.00 or so.

been there, done that grin

Hahah I Isaac owns Sick evidence! I got a lot in my tool box scattered. Those things are expensive just like those white retainer clips. Took off all those plastics off wayyyyy back. I think Toyota put those plastics all over the engine not only for protection but to hide engine problems from people who are not mechanically inclined. Example, my friend had an oil leak and didn't find out the oil was leaking slowly till the lower portions of his plastics got full of oil. If you know how to maintain your plugs well more power to ya! cool


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