Ouch. Thank you, Kevera. So I would need to look for the clips as well. Great. You wouldn't think such a simple part would be such a rigmarole to replace.

My wife has a 2004 Vibe with the gray cladding. Now, the strips between the plastic cladding and the body itself are in various sorry states ranging from faded to completely missing. She checked with a local Pontiac dealership and she was told that the part was called "fender molding protector&...