Toyota grille clips and the devil

[octanejunkie]

After breaking most of grille clips messing around with my grille, and not using google to research it for some reason, I discovered the way to remove and reinstall the grille without breaking the clips.

This video link demonstrates how to remove the grille, as well as how frustrating it is, but what it doesn't show you is how to reinstall the grille easy as pie.

Reinstalling the grille the easy way

1. REMOVE ALL THE GRILLE CLIPS FROM THE CORE SUPPORT
2. Insert the clips into the slots on the grille itself
3. Align the clip bosses (little towers) on the grille with the slots in the core support
4. Push the grille towards the engine, you will hear the clips snap in​

If anyone has a better method, please share

ps. FWIW, the clips are PN 90467-12040

 

[Tyler James Inc]

I leave them in the core support, and never have problems with them breaking. I've swapped grills a couple times, as well as removed the grill for other reasons a few more times.
Push the little tabs up or down, and it comes right off. Leave them where they are, and push the grill back on.
Couldn't get any easier [emoji1360]

 

[kolelt]

i ditched the clips and went with zip ties!

 

[jpeaslee]

i ditched the clips and went with zip ties!

This is the way go. Made my life MUCH easier.

 

[Airmapper]

i ditched the clips and went with zip ties!

Mine was missing half the clips when I got it, I did this and now it doesn't feel like it's going to fall off going down the road. It ain't going nowhere now.

 

[phattyduck]

The clips should be transferred back to the grill after the grill is removed. That is the way Toyota has done it since the 80's...

Once the grill is off, a little twist of the clips will allow them to come out of the core support and they can be clipped back into the grill for re-assembly. Very little risk of breaking the clips that way.

-Charlie

 

[Dropzone]

here is a bag of grill clips for $1.99

 

[kolelt]

Mine was missing half the clips when I got it, I did this and now it doesn't feel like it's going to fall off going down the road. It ain't going nowhere now.

Haha, my grill fell out once and I ran it over. IT WAS MY FIRST SATOSHI GRILL.

 

[Trail Taxi]

I also went with plastic zip-ties because #1. I have like 1,000,000 sitting in a giant clear tube (lifetime supply for $4) and #2. they are so darned easy to install and remove - if needed (plenty of things to wrap them around).

I do have a nice new bag of the real grill clips but decided that the zip-ties are the better option.

John

 

[Tyler James Inc]

It blows my mind people actually prefer cable ties holding their grille on over the proper clips.

 

[octanejunkie]

It blows my mind people actually prefer cable ties holding their grille on over the proper clips.

Zip tie mafia, probably

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[theesotericone]

It blows my mind people actually prefer cable ties holding their grille on over the proper clips.

Zip tie mafia, probably

LOL. It's a grill not a wheel.

For the record I've never broken a single clip in the 8 times my grills come off. If I do though, bailing wire.:cheers:

 

[2ndhandyotaman]

It blows my mind people actually prefer cable ties holding their grille on over the proper clips.

Why is that? These rigs aren't exactly concours show cars. After owning VW's, zip ties are always a plausible way of holding things together.

 

[Dropzone]

It blows my mind people actually prefer cable ties holding their grille on over the proper clips.

they work.

Why is that? These rigs aren't exactly concourse show cars. After owning VW's, zip ties are always a plausible way of holding things together.

this^

 

[octanejunkie]

You zip tie guys are making rational statements about a crowd that buys their coolant at the dealership :whacko:

*polishes my Toyota grille clips with a tiny buffing wheel to catch the judges eye*

 

[Trail Taxi]

It blows my mind people actually prefer cable ties holding their grille on over the proper clips.

As stated, I use then because of reasons #1. and #2. It's not like the judges at my next Concours D'Elegance will pop the hood on my 20 YO beat-up old SUV to see if the (hard to use) OEM clips were installed.

John

 

[habanero]

You zip tie guys are making rational statements about a crowd that buys their coolant at the dealership

If I buy it from the Subaru dealership do I still get to be irrational? The whole being a girl bit notwithstanding....or maybe especially because of...

Yep, twist and pull any clips left on the truck after removal, install into grille, put grille on truck. Ta-da! I did use zip-ties for my washer fluid bottle, to maintain a balance of power.

 

[sleepydad]

You zip tie guys are making rational statements about a crowd that buys their coolant at the dealership :whacko:

*polishes my Toyota grille clips with a tiny buffing wheel to catch the judges eye*

Ok bammerdrewski

For the record I hate the clips and the zip ties. They are equally loathsome to me.

 

[octanejunkie]

If I buy it from the Subaru dealership do I still get to be irrational? The whole being a girl bit notwithstanding....or maybe especially because of...

Yep, twist and pull any clips left on the truck after removal, install into grille, put grille on truck. Ta-da! I did use zip-ties for my washer fluid bottle, to maintain a balance of power.

Lol

I have replaced all the broken plastic clips in my engine bay with zip ties, so I get it

I would buy coolabt at the local Subaru dealer if they sold $1 froyo like IKEA does [emoji3]

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[octanejunkie]

Ok bammerdrewski

For the record I hate the clips and the zip ties. They are equally loathsome to me.

Chinese finger trap grille stays?

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