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clips and bolts for various places

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by pasadena_commut, Aug 25, 2024 at 8:10 PM.

  1. pasadena_commut

    pasadena_commut Senior Member

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    Took off the front bumper cover yesterday to straighten out the condenser fins. As usual, problems with the fastener hardware.

    1. The radiator cover tray had two types of clips. Two were simple push clips (pry up the simple button to release) and those came out easily. No idea where they came from. Four were generic (ie, not OEM) 90467-06017, the kind with a Philips head center piece that should turn, then pry up. Also supposed to be able to push up from underneath. Nope and nope. The center pin did not extend below the outward clamp legs, and the stupid soft screwdriver slot stripped or wouldn't turn. Had to remove all four destructively (pry up the screw head with a tiny screw driver, grab it and the post with needle nose pliers and lift to release). I had put those on the last time the tray had to come off, when their predecessors disintegrated. On reassembly used some generic Dorman 961-075D 6.4 mm push clips from Advanced Auto. The outer part fit fine, but the push part had to be put in with a lot of force. I'm betting these don't come out easy now, let alone after cooking in the car for a couple of years. I really prefer the simple push pin clips without the screwdriver complication. Anybody know of one of that type that works well in this application?

    2. The 3 clips holding the bumper cover to the radiator support, 52161C, were breaking apart. Tried Dorman 963-552D from Advanced Auto, which are Subaru bumper clips. Both are said to be 9mm. Unfortunately the Dorman clips would not go into the hole, they were a fraction of a millimeter too big. So I put the cruddy ones back in, but since they are not really clamped in there, they need to be replaced. The Dorman 963-125D looks more like the Toyota part, but there weren't any in the store. Also 9mm. Probably. Are 52161C clips 52161-16010, 52161-02020, or some other Toyota part number?

    3. On the bottom of the bumper cover there are bolts with 10 mm heads, a rotating but retained washer, and threads that are very coarse. These go through the loop on the bumper cover into a white plastic retaining clip which is attached to the shield behind it. One bolt was missing, and one screw had a substantially narrower diameter. The skinny one had apparently been driven through both the shield and the white clip, but not in the part where it was supposed to go, just through the plastic flangs. That skinny bolt would not "bite" into the retaining clip, so the car is now two bolts down. What is the part number for this screw/bolt? This might be it, but in the picture it doesn't look as long as the screws on my car (2007):

    90080-15091 - Fender Liner Screw 2000-2024 Toyota | Longo Toyota Parts

    maybe it is this one, seems like a closer length:

    90159-60215 - Bumper Cover Retainer Screw 1996-2023 Toyota | Longo Toyota Parts

    Also what is the part number for those white retaining clips that goes with this screw? I'd like to replace the mangled one at some point. Maybe this?

    90189-06131 - Under Cover Grommet 2006-2009 Toyota Prius | Longo Toyota Parts

    Thanks
     
    #1 pasadena_commut, Aug 25, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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    Amazon and eBay both have sellers that have these boxes that are like $22 and have a hundred some odd of these various clips for Toyota Subaru Nissan etc they're two boxes for the Toyota and believe it or not they have quite a bit of all the popular clips and whatnot in them The white square inserts that push into the square holes that various and sundry wood screw type threaded screw into I usually just pop them out of other vehicles there's plenty around the frame and you can buy those you just have to know what size they are which I don't I don't know if anybody makes an assortment of those but probably but with all the spare cars like I said I just pop them out of other vehicles and other places on the vehicle The screws usually I just have stainless steel ones that I've bought from home Depot or wherever and they're the American equivalent of the metric about the size of a number 9 I guess American if they're a little oversized even better so any waddled out holes in those white square push-ins the oversized screw takes care of that and now I don't have to change the white part
     
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    I have one. That's where the crappy 90467-06017 clips came from. The clips look good, but somehow they don't work well. My guess is that they used a really low quality batch of plastic.
     
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    For the ones that survive removal, always rinse them out with soapy water, work the mechanism several times, before reinstall.

    I find a paint can lid pry tool handy for the ones where the centre cap needs to be pried up to release the locking jaws. Sometimes coupled with a slim-blade screwdriver 'round the other side, if stubborn. Patience helps. Pros are tough on them I think, working against the clock.
     
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    Well I've removed mine and put them back in a couple of times the crappy box from Amazon I got a big one The big box I've done four or five cars couple of fender liners all the clips under the hood on the plastic pieces and all of that and I've taken some of that stuff in and out so for me time served and they seem to be okay I try not to be taking this stuff in and out when I have the stuff off and I'm doing work I confirm that everything is fixed before I put all the plastic trim back and have to keep ripping it off We don't do that even if it's a customer's car I'll leave the plastic off and put it in their trunk or put it in my carport while they test the vehicle for a couple of days make certain so on so that we're not just undoing clips and taking stuff on and off continuously just because it seems to work fairly well