Ford tail gate trim body clip

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Had to remove the trims from the tail gate of my Ford S-Max WA6 to fix the broken cables in the hinge. Of course, one of the metal clips got detached from a trim piece and disappeared inside the body of the tail gate. These suckers seem to be hard to find, but fortunately I was able to locate a set of different metal body clips in AliExpress (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001207874312.html, 9EUR ). BUT to this thing... While waiting for the clips to arrive, I decided to use my Fusion360 super powers and created this plastic spare. I printed one piece from PETG, installed the panel with it and at least it seemed to hold the trim in place. Update on 2023-04-27: I get a sortiment of metal clips and remove the trim. The good news: The 3D printed part was still in one piece = it had not broken when I pushed the panel in its place. The bad news: The 3D printed part barely gave any resistance when I removed the trim so it do not actually do what it was supposed to do. I have mounted my panel now with one of the metal clip spares, but as the Fusion360 source code is included included for this thing, maybe somebody will remix the piece to get a stronger clip in functions. I'm looking forward to what you guys will come up with. Cheers!