DIY: Protect your front tow hook cover
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DIY: Protect your front tow hook cover
If you haven't done this already. Do it now.
I hit a small piece of wood on the freeway and the tow hook cover popped off and flew away. The anchor to keep you from losing the cover all-together is not secure. Replacement covers run $30-$70.
Tools needed:
1. Small prying tool
2. (1) Short ziptie
Steps:
1. Carefully pry off the cover. Pry the left then unhook the right.
2. You'll see a plastic tail with diamond-end that extends down into a plastic slot. Pull that tail out through the slot. It doesn't take much force.
3. Take your ziptie and run it through the tail and the plastic slot, so both are secured by the tie. Make sure there's some slack on the ziptie so you can tuck everything back in and place the tail back through the slot.
4. Close it up. Slide right side first and snap down on the left.
Drive safely out there.
I hit a small piece of wood on the freeway and the tow hook cover popped off and flew away. The anchor to keep you from losing the cover all-together is not secure. Replacement covers run $30-$70.
Tools needed:
1. Small prying tool
2. (1) Short ziptie
Steps:
1. Carefully pry off the cover. Pry the left then unhook the right.
2. You'll see a plastic tail with diamond-end that extends down into a plastic slot. Pull that tail out through the slot. It doesn't take much force.
3. Take your ziptie and run it through the tail and the plastic slot, so both are secured by the tie. Make sure there's some slack on the ziptie so you can tuck everything back in and place the tail back through the slot.
4. Close it up. Slide right side first and snap down on the left.
Drive safely out there.
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thefisch (05-10-2016)