Headlight Plastic Bracket Replacement

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by John_Clack, Oct 5, 2023.

  1. John_Clack

    John_Clack New Member

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    Hello y'all! Do any of you know the name or part number for the black plastic pieces angled downwards to the rear of the headlights? A couple attachment points have broken off on the passenger side and I'll probably need to replace both. Searching the title didn't yield any helpful results. Thank you!

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  2. Tombukt2

    Tombukt2 Senior Member

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    If you're talking about the black plastic piece that's held on with generally gold or bright silver 10 mm I think bolts that the front bumper cover edges clip into I don't know the technical name but on the parts micro fiche at the dealer. It's like one of the main parts on the front end that pops up as commonly bought by body shops they're available aftermarket for many manufacturers this is not a hard thing to round up . You might try googling bumper cover mounting clip and the year make n model of the car. You will probably see a whole bunch of these they're used basically at all four corners of the car I believe to hold the front and rear bumper covers at the wings if you will against the car body and a pinch if you don't want to replace these and you're not one to be pulling your front bumper cover off a whole lot you can take urethane that you mount windshields with before you put your front bumper cover on you run a beat of that in the slot of that clip that we're talking about Mount your bumper cover the last thing you do is push the bumper cover edges or wings into that slot what you put the urethane in. And then you put a piece of zip tape on the outside of the car for about an hour holding it into that urethane when that cures in about an hour you can remove the tape the next time you go to remove that front bumper cover it may damage the edge of the bumper cover disassembling it so make sure you've got the lights and fixtures you want on the body before you do this because when you put that urethane on there to hold the bumper cover on it is pretty much permanent You may distort it If you have to remove it again Good luck.
     
  3. John_Clack

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    Man, thank you so much for the write-up! I'm going to end up buying the bumper bracket set since they're actually missing an attachment point.