Hood Deflector Mounting Fasteners

[skeezix]

I need a decent and cost-effective replacement for the six plastic /nylon push-lock fasteners Toyota sells to mount the Toyota hood deflector shield. Mine are 10+ years old, brittle, and breaking apart.

The Toyota parts counter man quoted $16+ for a "hardware kit" and was unable to tell me what the kit contained. I assume 6 fasteners and four bumpers.

I looked around the various auto parts stores but have not yet found a decent replacement. Most of the racks have more "out-of-stock" tags that actual parts, so what I need might be available.

Can somebody help me out here with a source of replacement fasteners?

[dgangle]

No idea on a replacement but the originals lassted 10 years. That's like $1.60 a year, $0.13/mo. Sounds like a bargain to me.

[skeezix]

Yeah, I certainly can't argue from that perspective. It just seems that $16 for 6 little plastic screws and 4 bumpers (that get hard, brittle, and crack after just 4 years) is a bit high.

BTW, did you find that the hood deflector caused additional wind buffeting at the rear of your hood, causing it to shake up and down a bit at interstate speeds?

[bowyer2002]

I had a hood deflector on my Pathfinder and it created such a wind buffer that the side-view mirrors would shake!

So, I measured and taped it off then dremel tooled off about 1" off the top of the deflector and it helped a lot!