Where to get interior fasteners?

[spotdog14]

I am looking to replace some of those christmas tree fasteners that hold the interior panels on... anyone have any ideas besides the dealership?

 

[section525]

They have them at a local auto paint supply store I go to.

 

[Silver X]

Make sure you bring in one of your old fasteners to match the color.

My Explorer was repaired and painted by a Ford dealership. They still replaced the push pins on the rear quarter trim panels with the wrong color. Seems like they'd have access to all the colors.

 

[my98nnj]

Any auto parts store will have them.

 

[Cobraguy]

Any auto parts store will have them.

If you need black...and you can use one that probably won't fit right.

Section525 has the best suggestion. We have an auto paint supply store here that has so freakin' many of them it would be hard to imagine you couldn't match something up.

 

[spotdog14]

If you need black...and you can use one that probably won't fit right.

Section525 has the best suggestion. We have an auto paint supply store here that has so freakin' many of them it would be hard to imagine you couldn't match something up.

Great, thanks for the help, do you think a place like Autozone or Napa would have them? I should have asked I was just at Napa last night to get a new belt tensioner.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Check the Motormite Help parts in the auto parts stores or their website: WWW.Motormite.Com or WWW.DormanProducts.Com.

 

[Cobraguy]

Yes...NAPA and Autozone have them. But it will only be in black. And they may or may not be the exact ones you need...you will have to improvise some.

 

[spotdog14]

Yes...NAPA and Autozone have them. But it will only be in black. And they may or may not be the exact ones you need...you will have to improvise some.

Humm, what about the ones that hold the door panels on? If I recall correctly they are white... Those are mainly the ones I am talking about, I have taken off my drivers side door panel so many times that the bottom of the panel just hangs there.

 

[Cobraguy]

If that's the ones you need, you could care less about color. Take one with you and match it as close as possible. I have used fasteners from Autozone and NAPA (Dorman) for the doors. They should get you by just fine. It's the ones that are visable that are a real pain to find and match.

 

[Ritsui]

It would obviously be best to have the part in hand, but you can also almost certainly match them up at an online supplier as long as you can measure the old ones correctly. I bought replacements for both interior and fender liner fasteners at Northland Fasteners and it was cheaper (at the time...) than the cost of gas just to get to a decent supply store.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Some fasterners look like this:

A lot only have one head:

This lnk has more options: http://www.nextag.com/ford-door-panels/search-html

 

[spotdog14]

Some fasterners look like this:

This link has more options: http://www.nextag.com/ford-door-panels/search-html

Thats it! Thanks guys!

 

[BrooklynBay]

That's why they say that a picture is worth 1,000 words.

 

[spotdog14]

That's why they say that a picture is worth 1,000 words.

So very true! I do not recall if mine have two heads or not, ill have to look later.

As for the rest of those fasteners that you have to match to the color of your interior I have not taken them out enough to break them, I had to take the headliner out once to fix the sunroof but thats it. Its those stupid door panels, why did they not just use screws instead of these things?

 

[BrooklynBay]

I put some screws through my panels. One screw works better than a half a dozen of these fragile plastic clips. The point on these screws work the best when you have to cut through the panel, then the metal door skin: