Thanks for the tips. I only had one to do, so once you showed me how they work, I used a putty knife to get a little clearance and then used an old cheap dinner fork to pop it the rest of the way.
Hey flat rate master, a great trick ive learned recently is to use a small spanner/socket on those annoying clips that generally hold in wiring looms. A lot of people use needles noses or a pick to push them out but with this trick you slide the spanners closed end over the clip and it just pushes out with so much ease (socket does the exact same but the leverage of a spanner is nice)
Took a rav4 bumper off over the weekend, and two flatheads worked surprisingly smoother than i thought it would, nothing broken. The specialized tool looks like the easy way if you're doing this often for sure though.
@@whatfreedom7 you pay for service and ease of warranty, you pay for convenience of the truck being at work you don't gotta take your good time to go warranty out work tools. Sometimes when you want to warranty out a tool it can take a week for the package to come, you then ship it to the tool creator. And wait for your replacement. It's a mess and I'd much rather grab it off chuck with the truck for an extra 5 bones and a 10 minute conversation.
@@firsttimediesels6289 it’s easier sometimes and in my experiences it can be 2-3 weeks to replace a tool on the tool truck if they don’t have it on the truck.
Amazon has a great warranty, all you do is order a new one and return the old one in its place. A quick drop off at kohls or a ups store and your good to go 👍 I live in minnespta and the somalians that work for amazon take returns as long as something is in the box that even remotely resembles the item.
You’re the exact asshole that is the cause of so many one star reviews. People ordering stuff and saying that it was already broken, or missing pieces, or otherwise damaged somehow. Can’t wait until you order something important, and you get one of someone else’s returned pieces of shit. I gotta believe that you are typical selfish red blooded hick that’s never been 100 miles from where you were born, and your family tree is a bush. (that means that there is a lot of inbreeding, sorry to go over your head)
The best 3:19 minutes I spent all day. Not only funny "the bane of my existence" and educational. Since I only pop these things off on rare occasion some small rather flat wire strippers pried the one I needed off. Thank! Thumbs up!!!
Matco sells a 4 piece kit like the two you shown @1:55 but they have slightly better handles. One small, one normal, one long and one curved. I got them Friday and I don’t know how I lived without them. They save me minutes sometimes dealing with those clips 😂 the sets like $60 it’s 100% worth it!!
In the motorcycle shop realm they are on 4 wheelers Yamaha/Suzuki/Kawasaki ect... as well and a pain especially after MUD caked in. Will be buyin them pliers for sure!
Funny what we find entertaining! I liked this. And I just bought a bag of hundreds of assorted clips, so I don't have to worry about re-using them! Yay!
i got a 3 piece set from mac, i love them, it came with a free 2 foot pry tool for clips also, seems ridiculous until you need to pull off a clip in an engine bay, or remove a sliding door panel. awesome. was only 56 bucks cdn when i bought them.
This was one of the most surprising videos ever. I would look up the first tool number then continue the video and he would say it was the next one then I looked it up and he said that it was the one he used to use by the time he got to the third i was near sure he would sneak in a fourth. Thank you for your help though, i appreciate it
My most used clip tool for the slotted is my .99 screwdriver. I bent the tip at a curve and just pops the center right out. If they are stubborn I use the :50 lisle 2 prong style and don’t have many problems as long as they are slotted clips and aren’t jam packed full of dirt.
There’s an indexable fork style tool (unfortunately they only make it in the large u shape, not the tight V) that sk tools makes.. or maybe “made” (they just changed owners and dropped a bunch of products) Anyway the thing is awesome and gets clips out of tight spots. The Matco/Kd ones that you say “suck” actually are essential for me, when I run into those clips on german stuff that where all you have to get under the center of the clip are two recesses in the base of the clip
There are exact same looking ones of your new favourite plastic clip plier on Amazon under different names. I saw them some time last year and didn't know if they are any good. Now I know!! And will gonna get it!!
I have a small pair if Knipex hose clamp pliers.....6" ones or so. I use the tips to pull the center part out and then I use the hose grabber part, which fits nicely under the pulled head, to pull the clip out.
I have a version of the last tool that you showed that my wife bought me off of Amazon for about $10.They are Chinese or Taiwanese but they’ve held up well. I originally used them as flush cutters for cutting wire ties which they also work well for. I think the brand is called king lake, they have light blue handles. I mainly use them for pulling those plastic push clips also.
No one had done a simple video on how to fix a gap bumper SEPARATED an EASY way and HOW to REMOVE a bumper and place it back with simple steps front and rear!
Very informative video. Really enjoyed the information you provided including the tools you prefer for clip removal. Thank you for puttting this together.
Panel clip pliers from Harbor Freight for $8.99 are better suited for this task than any of the tools you showed. Plus they can also be used for wiring harness plugs.
I personally use 1st tool you mentioned I got gearwrench brand came with a angled one as well. I do plan on purchasing other tools you mentioned. Gotta keep an open mind to what others are using thanks for video
Depends on the clip design. Most of them I just grab a end cutter or a side cutter. both will do the job. Need to find a decent plastic trim clip remover, the ones I've got keep bending.
Any tricks for removing multiple barbed bind hole fasteners that have no release on them. Ford seems to use them for holding wiring harnesses to blind holes in blocks. They are very difficult to remove any tricks?
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I work on a different industry that unfortunately use the same evil clips and have never been able to find a good tool until this video.
Great video thanks brother. I don't like the clips either. I have a lot of the plastic rivets. The whole under side of my truck to just past the transfer case has three different types of clips. I have two panels down there and one door. Messed up the door one hoping to get to my oil filter better wrong. I bolted it back on. Keep up the great work see you in the next video thanks again brother
I saw Walmart customer review saying their plastic clips don't have blankets nor straps with the blankets with them. So what's are straps with blankets ?
Finally somebody called the HF pin pliers "crap", because that design is crap. Tried many times after getting them and a screwdriver works 10 times better.
I've actually been looking at knock offs of those for a year on Ebay but just haven't pulled the trigger...guess I'm gonna have to know...lol On Ebay I think their just called panel clip pliers and start about $6 straight out of China if your on a budget and not in a hurry😉
What do to use for the ones that don't have a button center to pull up? I call them Christmas Trees 🌲 I break them all and replacing them is hard to do because the Worth Guy doesn't stock the ones I see the most or someone else got them.
Bought a pair this week for my motorcycle, everything is held on with those clips! I got a pair off ebay for $7, exactly the same as the dentfix, but with blue handles.
@@nba3512 They're not branded. I would guess Dentfix do not make these and they are simply rebranded. They are a cheaply made tool, but extremely effective.
Those are easy, what I hate are those metal u-shaped which are dug into plastic. Somehow you have to get the metal part that is dug in, to retract or widen by force the entire clip to get to release. I hate this type of stuff.
So it's 2020, and we are getting these Dodge Durangos that have the expanding metal rivet/pin thing in the front fascia assembly. They have plastic and metal ones. The plastic just breaks but the metal ones are something else. Do you have any words of wisdom for this issue?
On one of our cars (2009 Nissan Sentra) I found clips which are very different from what I saw before. They look like stamps. Do you happen know if they are removable or it is some kind of permanent attachment? Thank you for the film.
You can make a better clip puller by bending a metal fork than those clip pliers. Also, if you get your finger caught between them when they slip (which they most definitely will) it hurts like a SOB.
