Celica Forums General Discussion General I know im not the only one with this problem.!

Today it finally happened, the last screw holding up my under body plastics fell off. ON THE FREEWAY!!! all the sudden i hear a horrible scraping noise, get off and find that my plastics were draging under my car. it was still attached by the back screws so i tucked it under the lip and drove home. im pissed, i think i need a new front bumper.

You don't need a new front bumper, just go buy some clips from the dealer, or find a way to fasten it up there like I did.

I know those plastics are supposed to help keep the engine compartment clean and help w/ aerodynamics but damn they are enough to piss a guy off somedays

zip ties work wonders

Yup, my car's only 3 months old and I've already begun to resort to zip ties.

I've done the zip ties as well...

yep, zip ties here too

dude you guys drive too fast or what?? or go over bumpy roads?? Because I have never had that problem **YET** * knock on wood *

<--- zip ties

DONT BUY THE CLIPS FROM THE DEALER!!!!!!!


someone bought a box of clips (the same ones for the celica) at wal-mart. it had lots for a great price, unlike the dealers idea of a good deal/steal.

mine is like that too rich. remember in santa cruz?

three clips of my front under panel plastics was gone and the only ones are holding it are at the back. I never yet heard any scrapping noise.. hhmm... prob coz i'm not driving that fast enough

the worst was when i just put on my new bodykit, got on the highway and ripped it to like 90, then heard the sound, I thought it was my sideskirts dragging down the road, but it was those damn plastics. I didnt have any zipties so i had to take my shoelace and tie it to the radiator,not fun.

mr. macgyver

haha! I am experiencing this for the first time. Test fit my blitz bumper sunday, which is lower than the plastics, and had the bolts out. It made the horrible scraping noise. When I got home and put stock bumper on, saw I lost most of the clips. But I thought I had enough still for it to hold. Was in a hurry today coming home from work, hit 110 and bam off they came, or I should say they folded under the car. I completely removed them tonight, I'll fix'em up tomorrow. What a pain in the ass!!

Purchased a box of 15 clips for Ford vehicles from Autoone...they are a little thicker than the OEM Celi clips and fit really snugly in engine holes and wheel dams. No plastics falling out in CT !!

i think going at exccessive speed tends to worsen the problem

so they DO fit for a celica, right?

110...

still hasn't happened to me... I think it's still a good idea to carry zip-ties in the glove compartment. They come in handy for a lot of things

Same thing happened to me a while back. It was the plastic that covers the oil filter. So which OEM parts did you guys purchase and for how much? If they fit, I rather go that route instead of the zip ties.

zip ties the fucking plastic shit!!!

zip ties are handy, but you'll have to keep replacing them, esp. when you change the oil.

I am getting ready to just take my plastic off whenever I get underglow for my celi

~Alex

take em off

Zip ties, thin wire, take them off, or jdm underpanel.

Yea on my celica (the one that got wrecked ) all of my underbody plastics fell off. Even the driver side wheelwell... So expect caus im sure its gonna happen

zip ties here too!!! damn...

why is everybody having so much problem with this? poor body kit install? or just tons of missing clips here & there? haven't have any problems so far...

Zero - the aftermarket clips for Ford vehicles fit wonderfully. The stems have a plastic feathering down the entire length, so they bend to the size of a smaller hole. They are tremendously secure! I replaced all my OEM clips with these babies and my car is tighter than my wife's sister!!

I will say mine is because of poor body kit install. My brother and I put my kit on, and we felt like putting MOST of the clips on would be good enough... so I bought both wheel-well plastics, and zip-tied the front bumper... the front bumper is still zip-tied.