Door card clips

[Uncle_Clanger]

I have a couple of broken clips to replace. What's the best way to remove a broken clip from the card without risking ripping plastic base away from the card?

What's the best way to get the new clips in?

 

[Brian4]

I have a couple of broken clips to replace. What's the best way to remove a broken clip from the card without risking ripping plastic base away from the card?

What's the best way to get the new clips in?

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They just slide out. The black plastic has a U shaped hole in it.

 

[Uncle_Clanger]

Just worked out the base of the clip is crescent shaped so they turn and lock in. They don't slide out unfortunately.

 

[Brian4]

Just worked out the base of the clip is crescent shaped so they turn and lock in. They don't slide out unfortunately.

Must be the Audi ones that slide but I knew they come out easily as I had to replace some of ours a while back.

 

[Faheem]

If I remember rightly I've seen two types of cards.

With one of my zeds, which I've now sold, the mounting points for the clips had a groove cut into them which would allow you to slide clips in and out making it very easy to replace the clips.

On my own zed I don't have these cut outs meaning that swapping clips is a pita.

Could never work out if someone had cut the groove to allow for easier clip removal in the other door cards I have.

I just use a duck nose plier and pull vertically making the pull very quick so that I don't rip the mounting point off.

It's common for the clips to break on removal so get a set of spare ones, very cheap on ebay.

Mounting points for the clips are also easy to rip off so have some plastic weld to hand in case it happens.