Clipper front grill fasteners

Hello and greetings from Finland!

I bought a 1989 Clipper Cabrio last year and have been fixing it for this winter now.
Car is pretty solid but the front panel was so rusty and dented that it needed to be replaced. And when i removed those old rusty bits i forgot to remove all of the grill´s fasteners so they are gone..

Does anybody know where i could get them? The grill was held in place with screws that were screwed to plastic bits which were in the locking steel panel, or what it is called.

Ebay sells only new plastic tabs which don´t fit car´s original grill.

Thanks!

Welcome to the forum!! I think you must put some photos up of your MK1  

Are these the parts you're after?

http://www.classic-vw.co.uk/mk1-golf-grille-fixing-clip-306-p.asp

This company is run by Mark on here, member name funk-star - but you can call him Dave

Hairyarse said

Welcome to the forum!! I think you must put some photos up of your MK1  

Are these the parts you're after?

http://www.classic-vw.co.uk/mk1-golf-grille-fixing-clip-306-p.asp

This company is run by Mark on here, member name funk-star - but you can call him Dave

Thanks for fast reply!
Maybe i put some photos later on..  

Those fasteners don´t fit. I already bought set of those just to find that they are too big to fit through grill´s holes..

Original fasteners are a sort of plastic "blobs" with threads which are clipped to same places that those on that link, but instead of inserting tabs to them, a screw secures the grill in place.

Clipper grilles held on with 4 screws. 2 in the corner and 2 on the top. The front panel has plastic clips that the screws go in to. 

Cheers

Dave 

funk-star said

Clipper grilles held on with 4 screws. 2 in the corner and 2 on the top. The front panel has plastic clips that the screws go in to. 

Cheers

Dave 

Exactly!
Only i dont have those clips anymore..
If someone has, i´d be very pleased to buy them off.

I'm sure someone will be along with them shortly

With Ultimate Dubs on this weekend it may be a little quiet on here so be patient and they will come  

Hairyarse said

I'm sure someone will be along with them shortly

With Ultimate Dubs on this weekend it may be a little quiet on here so be patient and they will come  

I´m in no such horry

Today was first very sunny day fot this spring with +6 degrees celsius in here so i got an small inspiration to get the car outside. Which then reminded me to get those grill-fasteners…

I`ve got 2 of the top ones..i thought that the outer ones next to the headlamps were different..or at least they were one mine.

I've ordered a handful from ECP as I too have loads missing. After fitting a single lamp grille this weekend I found I had about 4 or so missing so hopefully they are the right ones

Well, this parts search might end happily
Emailed to classic-vw and got answer that they will put those clips to their webshop.

I also found correct part number for this, it´s 873853139 and called "expanding nut".