Where Are These Supposed To Fit?

[NeilTindle]

As a newbie '96 Galaxy 2.0 GLX owner I've got 101 questions about our new car. Here's the first. I was having a poke about under the bonnet like you do with a new car and thought I'd have look at the air filter to see if it had been changed during the 'service' it was given before we took delivery. To get to the front clip on the air box the plastic cover over the back of the headlight needs to be removed. This uncovered the wires to the back of the headlight which were routed all wrong. No problem to sort that but there was this clip attached to the wire but not anything else. No problem I'll work out where that supposed to go when I put it back together. Carry on taking off the air box and find another one loose inside the airbox! Can ayone tell me where they are supposed to fit?

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[Guest pnwheels]

As you look at the airbox from the front of car, they go along the L/H side and the loom clips into them

[NeilTindle]

Do you mean these?

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[Guest fredt]

Can ayone tell me where they are supposed to fit?

 

Yes on a building site or in the bin! I used to use them to hold cables and conduits onto the steel girders and such like when I worked in the construction industry

they look like knock on girder clips! not something you should be using on a car!

when they are pushed onto a surface the two spikes damage/scratch through the paint to the metal below and latch onto the panel!

[NeilTindle]

They look original but I can't see where they were fitted or what they did. There doesn't seem to be anything loose that needs to be clipped in place. Could be for the bonnet release cable I suppose.

I agree with you Fred they are a horrible way to fix anything to a painted surface. I think these were fitted onto a plastic part though.

Perhaps I'll just put them in the glove box for now.

[Guest fredt]

think these were fitted onto a plastic part though.

Could be for the bonnet release cable I suppose

 

well done that man answered your own question :D they are clipped onto the plastic part of the slam panel where it sits over the lights, and not on a metal panel!

I'm supposed to use a similar clip at work to provide a 0 Volts termination onto an anodised alloy section, I say supposed to as the first thing I do when I unpack the job is to bin that part as I class it as a destructive fitting due the damage it does on its installation!