Removing roof rail trim thingies

[Redness1]

Hey need to remove the roof rail trims as theyre full of dirt and pine needles but have no idea how to do it. Tried a google search but it didnt say how to do it.
Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated.
Ts 5 door hatch

[HoldenAstra]

On AH, I used a flat rope thing to under the rail and pull up, guess the same on TS, give a try.

[guy 27]

start at the back. lift up. do not allow them to bend as they are aluminium.
if you have a plastic pry tool it will make your life easy. once you get the first clip up its pretty straight forward and easy.

[Redness1]

Thanks ill give it a go once i get some time off work and its not raining

[Redness1]

Is it possible at all to buy new clips to hold the rails on or am i stuck having to raid the wreckers for old brittle ones

[sskustomz]

For what it’s worth I’ve pulled the rails off all of my cars to repaint them and never had a broken clip, i think because they’re out of the sun they don’t age as badly.


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