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I was driving on the highway and all of the sudden i heard a scraping sound. Kind of like dragging a plastic garbage can under the car. It turns out the shield popped off from underneath. I brought it in to Toyota service and they said it happens once in a while. Seems like a bad design if they pop off that easily no? Oh well.. worse things can happen.
the back part of the splashshield comes detched sometimes as it is only heald up by 2 self tapping screws, one clip and 6-8 screws....the shield can be ripped off by a number of things....its very common
its very easy to reattach...just get the screws and clips and reattach it
I'm just curious, but how much does a new one cost? I must admit during the winter I've ran over a few humps of snow in the road and came a little to close to some snow banks, and now the right side is partially hanging down, and it looks like some of the clips are broken, either on the shield or on the bumper itself.
I'm just curious, but how much does a new one cost? I must admit during the winter I've ran over a few humps of snow in the road and came a little to close to some snow banks, and now the right side is partially hanging down, and it looks like some of the clips are broken, either on the shield or on the bumper itself.
Thanks for the links, I actually bought some of the clips at the dealer already and I'm waiting until the temperature warms up before trying to fix it, but I wasn't sure if it was because it's missing a couple clips or if the panel is actually damaged.
I re-engineered mine. Pretty simple stuff - I used larger sheet metal screws to hold the splash shield in through the holes, i used anti-sieze compound on these bigger screws.
You could also epoxy in a nut or a bolt and use lock washers to hold the fasteners in place.
They are usually damaged when someone scrapes the front of the car on a curb.
I've never seen one come loose for no reason. It's not a bad design, it's usually a bad driver that causes the problem.
What happened with me was that when I installed my fog lights, I lost about 2-3 of the screws/clips, so I was trying to figure out which pieces would be the most important to have secured (I was too lazy to buy new ones and put the car back on the ramps). I ended up only using one screw for the protector right in front of the wheels, which was a bad mistake because once winter came whenever I went over some tall snow piles it pushed that into the wheel, and it eventually bent the plastic and broke a few clips. Of course that was my fault.
I re-engineered mine. Pretty simple stuff - I used larger sheet metal screws to hold the splash shield in through the holes, i used anti-sieze compound on these bigger screws.
You could also epoxy in a nut or a bolt and use lock washers to hold the fasteners in place.
You could go to 1/2" bolts when those fail because of running into/over curbs/debris. and double up the shields.
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Yep, that will do it too.
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