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Looking for a good supplier of door panel clips. I am trying to keep my fasteners invisible for my door panels. A lot of people use screws with caps. Looking for a cleaner installation.
These that I found at NAPA were an assortment pack and are too weak.
Plus a sneak peak.
Gup

If you have an auto body supply shop around your way. You want to look at a clip / hardware catalog. They have hundreds of variations.

Go to the Junk Yard and look at the conversion vans! They have lots of clips on em! just stuff em in ur pocket! LOL

YEAP ... JUNK YARD.. AND DEEP POCKETS.. .. THATL GET YA GOIN.

Hey Gup, check this out...my mark III, has no visibile clips, they stapled the leading edge to the back of the panel, and then put the screws in, flipped the fabric back over, and stuffed in the rest in to the corner... neat, huh? It'a PITA! to get the panels dug out later...I found that out. dave

Those clips are like a Pike's teeth. Won't come back apart
without distroying the clip. Metal folding prong type clips
would be better and still hidden, plus the panel would be
somewhat easier to remove for access. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Here's an idea, get the snap clips from an upholstery shop or a fasterner buisiness, screw the base into the door, short bolt through the door panel with a small nut that will fit in the center of the snap and just use a little built up edge along the panel to cover the space and you can get it on and back off easy. Don't know for sure if it will work, but in theory it should.