interesting ways to hold on trim clips

[ibjettin]

I've seen a lot of lazy hacked up solutions but these take the cake. All these trim clips were removed from the same car.

Here we have scrap wood

Random things found on the garage floor

Rivets

Screw from the backside

And a welded glob...

Trim clips are not expensive to replace...

[Napes]

Looks like the perpetrator was more interested in originality and ingenuity than authenticity and logic. Possibility the perp figured the Germans didn't have all the answers when they designed the clips.

Bob Napier

[ArdenK]

The PO of my Volvo 850 used drywall screws to attach the knee moldings. Very Ugly job!

[jerry]

Back when you could still regularly find 02's at the junk yards, i used to enjoy discovering various kludged-together fixes on these wonderful cars. to me, it was a sign of an engaged owner willing to take matters into his/her own hands. i look at it in a positive light. of course, not all kludged-together fixes are equal and some are probably downright dangerous, if not criminal.

silicone sealer gobbed all over a cracked windshield rubber was a fairly common one. i've used bailing wire to secure a muffler with a missing bracket... and i reluctantly used a screw to keep a rocker trim piece on (yep, i confess. it hurt to drill the rocker panel, but i did it).