rev up your engines, today I'm gonna show you how to deal with some of the plastic
stuff on your car now, for years all these plastic clips that hold your car
together, would drive me nuts, cars didn't used to be that way, as you can see here
on my old Celica, things are held together with nuts and bolts, not stupid
little plastic clips, look at nuts and bolts, tried and true, they screw on they
screw off, they last virtually forever and they're really strong, but as far as
the modern manufacturers are concerned, they have a big drawback they cost too
much money to make out of steel and then machine, plastic stuff is so much cheaper
to make and they've been using plastic for a long time, take the 17 year old
Lexus, plastic clips are everywhere, holding different pieces together even
the fender has plastic clips inside, when you take the door apart there's plastic
clips inside it, all inside here to snap it on so it doesn't rattle, open the
trunk, the trunk is full of plastic clips to hold everything if you have to take
the bulbs out to change bulbs, the liner's full of plastic clips and guess what
happens when you take old plastic clips off, they generally break, no matter what
tools you have to take them off when they're old the plastic gets brittle and
it snaps, so you can be as careful as you want with one of these tools, odds are
the stuff is gonna break and really that used to infuriate me, I'm working
on a customer's car I got to take off the plastic parts like on the
undercarriage if I'm changing the oil or replacing the starter, it's bad enough
you got to take all that garbage off and then take the plastic shields off to
work on the car, but then when you putting it back together, most of them
are broken and you're like, oh if they only were to use nuts and bolts, but now
thanks to the help of the Chinese, you can forget all that, no more going to the
auto parts store, trying to find the right fasteners, and then finding that a
box of six costs eight dollars, you don't know
if they're the right size, it's a gigantic pain,
but when you check out the Chinese stuff there's 730 pieces in this box and it's
like $14, so not only do you get tons of them, but they cost like 1/500th of what
it does at the auto parts store, check out my
phone when I scanned one of the things they gave me one of those little
scanners, and in this case you get a hundred pieces of the single one for
$3.99, god nows how they make them that cheap in
China, ship them to the United States and if you're a member of Amazon Prime like me,
the shipping is free to your house for $3.99
you get hundreds of these things, you'll never run out, now in the olden days, my day, my
grandfather's days, we had buckets of bolts, we'd collect them just in case you
needed a particular size one and we had them sitting around for years, a lot of
times they get rusty they stick together and you gotta clean them up, but you can
always clean them with a little wire brush, so here maybe the plastic is
better, plastic never rusts and instead of having messy little coolant
containers for nuts and bolts and old paint cans, you get these nice plastic
containers and you can store them somewhere and they're all organized by
size, hey my wife would get a laugh out of that one, she's always saying, you're
so organized, well I just say, my environment may be messy but my mind is
clean, and judging by the state of my garage with things all over the place
Hey she's probably half right, not still a good idea to have tools to try to take
the plastic fasteners off without breaking them and a lot of these kits
hey they even come with these tools, but the next time you break one of these
fasteners off, you don't have to start swearing at the people who designed them
you've got boxes full of things, you just won't even care, and isn't that the point
of life, kind of go with the flow, I mean for years I'm cursing and swearing at
these idiots that designed these things with all this plastic, well if you can
get these plastic fasteners as cheap as this, hey who cares if the stupid things
break, break them off when you're working on a car and snap in new ones, when they only
cost less than a penny apiece who cares, now of course you still have to order
things beforehand, you're not gonna find these in any local stores, at least I never
have, but the big advantage is they come with little diagrams, not only showing
you which are which, but gives the exact measurements, so once you know which one
you need, you can just go into the little box pull it out and snap it in, they even
tell you what model cars are for, so plan ahead buy a box for your car, boy you'll
thank Scotty and you'll stop swearing like I do when you're working on all
that plastic junk on your car, as it snaps off when you try taking it apart
and since this is a mechanic's Monday I'm giving away a bunch of these stupid
little plastic snaps, to have a chance to win, just place a clean non offensive
comment on the YouTube comments below, and the winner will be chosen randomly by
computer to get plastic fasteners, so you never have to swear at the use of cheap
plastic parts again, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
videos, remember to ring that Bell!