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Bus Door Panel Clips - New vs. Original
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:27 am
by BellePlaine
The clip on the left is a new clip ordered from BD (I always receive fantastic customer service) and the clip on the right is an original. They are different.
Re: Bus Door Panel Clips - New vs. Original
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 4:49 pm
by kreemoweet
Yep. As far as I know, the old-style clips havn't been available for years. The new ones work OK if you enlarge the holes from 6.5 mm to 8 mm (I think it was).
Re: Bus Door Panel Clips - New vs. Original
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:33 pm
by kreemoweet
It seems the bus-specific (?) smaller clips are back in production. The originall part # N14 3781 put into your favorite search engine will lead to numerous vendors selling them, and even the sealing boots to match. Too bad I didn't have the foresight to see this happening back in 1999 when I drilled out the holes in my driver's side door.
It was really tough deburring the back side of those holes!
Re: Bus Door Panel Clips - New vs. Original
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 6:55 am
by hercdriver
For your shopping pleasure......
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... 14-3781-50
That's the only link that google would produce.
Re: Bus Door Panel Clips - New vs. Original
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:23 am
by Amskeptic
Check out JustKampers USA:
Door panel clips J10562
Door panel clip seals - important! 113-857-219/A
The website has some good-looking stuff.
Colin
Re: Bus Door Panel Clips - New vs. Original
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:34 pm
by kreemoweet
hercdriver wrote: That's the only link that google would produce.
Google is just plain bizarre. Today there's only one vendor (in the first 4 pages of search results I looked at ...), a vendor I would rather douse my VW's with
gasoline and torch rather than buy from, but a couple of days ago there were 4 or 5 others, including AirHeadParts.com, BugHaus.com, and several from Europe.
Even more bizarre is the image search results for that number . . .
Re: Bus Door Panel Clips - New vs. Original
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:15 pm
by Amskeptic
kreemoweet wrote:hercdriver wrote: That's the only link that google would produce.
Google is just plain bizarre. Today there's only one vendor (in the first 4 pages of search results I looked at ...), a vendor I would rather douse my VW's with
gasoline and torch rather than buy from, but a couple of days ago there were 4 or 5 others, including AirHeadParts.com, BugHaus.com, and several from Europe.
Even more bizarre is the image search results for that number . . .
I hope my shipment of correct door clips and grommets comes through from JustKampers. They had my sorely needed chrome-handled door pulls, and I wasn't going to pay $135.00 shipping on $101.00 in parts, so I added door grommets and clips . . . and a roll of window chrome for the BobD.
Colin
