Overview
A push-in retainer clip is a molded fastener that holds a trim panel, a liner or a bracket to a hole in a body panel. It is one part: a round head, a collar under it, and a shank split into legs with fins stepped along the outside.
The collar lands on the panel face and sets how far the clip goes in. The legs close through the hole and open behind the panel, so the fins catch the back edge and hold the trim. The stepped fins let one push-in retainer clip take a range of panel thickness.
Key Features & Benefits
- Collar: lands on the panel face and sets the seated depth
- Split legs: close through the hole and open again behind the panel
- Stepped fins: a row of steps along each leg, so one clip covers a range of panel thickness
- Tapered tips: find the hole and start the legs closing
- Open slot between the legs: lets them flex at the root instead of cracking there
Every push-in retainer clip comes off the tool on the same fin pitch, so the hold does not drift from box to box.
Customization Options
- Head: diameter, height and face
- Collar: diameter and thickness
- Shank: length and leg count
- Fins: count, step and depth
- Hole size the clip is sized for
- Material: nylon, acetal or a glass filled grade
- Color: black, gray or a matched shade
One tool can carry inserts for two shank lengths, so one push-in retainer clip family covers a thin panel and a thick one. A sealer washer can be molded onto the collar where the joint meets water.
Quality & Delivery
Tooling for a push-in retainer clip is cut in our own mold shop, and the first article is gauged against your 3D file, head, collar and fin pitch included, before the run is released.
Mold faces are polished to the sheen your 3D file calls for, the gate is trimmed flush, and the legs come off the tool straight, so each push-in retainer clip seats to the collar without rocking. Lead time is quoted with the unit price and held to the date, and each batch is gauged before packing.
We mold every push-in retainer clip to your 3D file, so the head, fins and leg split follow the model. Send the 3D file for a quotation with the tool cost and the unit price.
Related Capabilities
A clip that presses into a hole sits beside this push-in retainer clip. Our cover clip is a snap fastener for machine panels, and the L-shaped cover clip catches a panel edge.
Where the clip has to carry a cushion, the snap-on buffer clip with a foam pad bonds a pad to the same kind of leg, and a push-in snap bushing lines a hole instead of holding a panel down.
Molding runs in house on our mold making floor, with injection molding for the clip. Our automotive plastic parts page groups vehicle work, our capabilities page lists the cells and our works page shows past jobs.
