Re: Springy clips (was: Gen II Power Mirrors)

From: Terrible Tom (SilverEightynine@aol.com)
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 23:42:27 EST


Jason Bleazard wrote:
> On Tue, February 14, 2006 12:33 am, Terrible Tom said:
>
>>On another note... I'm starting to see all the little differences there
>>are between a Gen I and a Gen II. The window cranks are held in place
>>with a snap clip on this 95. It took me 15 minutes to figure out how
>>the hell to get the thing off!
>
>
> The only thing more interesting than removing the snap clip is trying to
> recover it after it springs off and flies halfway across Jon's barn (I'M
> FREE!!!). The same thing happened on *both* sides on our '98. Fortunately
> Jon managed to find both of them, I can imagine how much fun it would have
> been trying to track down replacements. I guess he knows every square inch of
> the barn well enough that he was able to spot two small clips that were out of
> place.
>

Bwahahahahah - I could just hear you saying "I'M FREEEE!" - when I
read that and I cracked up! I used a small allen wrench to pry it up
and out and it too went KABWING!!! but luckily it bounced off the door
frame and landed in the handgrip. I stared at it for a few seconds and
mentally cursed it to hell for its acrobatic antics.

Don't get me started about E-clips!!!!

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