The trim strips are located on on lower part of each door entry, and the door closes onto the trim pieces themselves. Sometimes, when exiting the car, your foot can catch the edge of a trim strip, causing a clip underneath to break, loosening the strip. After a few clips are damages, the strip is very loose and you may need to replace all clips to repair this.
Attached pics show which trim strips these are (total 4 on the car - 1 per door).



Tools needed:
- Cleaner to clean strip and car area after removal of old clips
- Rag/towel to clean with
- Hole punch (about 1/4 or thicker)
- hammer
- replacement clips - 6 or so per strip - Part# R95555954700 from THIS WEB SITE


ORDERING REPLACEMENT CLIPS:
1. Go HERE
2. In the search field, paste the following text: R95555954700
3. Click GO button
4. At bottom you will have choice of which type of part you want to order (I got the cheapest - same parts - 1.00 each - genuine Porsche parts)
5. Pay for the stuff and wait to receive via mail


DIY INSTRUCTIONS:
You will need about 6 for each strip. Once you get them, you will have to take off old strip which will likely break the remainder of any good clips on there.
1. Remove the clips from strip and from car mount holes if any.
2. Clean area of dirt/debris - both the car and strips themselves
3. Place new clips into car mount holes claw side into each hole (yes, have to place the clips onto the car, not on the strip)
4. Using a fat hole punch and hammer, punch in the posts in middle of each clip until it is flush with the rest of the clip's plastic - do not use skinny hole punch as the post will go into the clip and into the car, which is not what you want. DO NOT CUT OFF THE POSTS!! they are intended to be there to affix the clips. The post spreads the claw, which is placed into the hole, affixing it to the car.
5. Affix the strip to the mount areas with each clip. Align to clip, press to click into place.

NOTE: Once clip in, it may be hard to remove, so make sure you are installing correct strips, and all clips are affixed. Get extra clips just in case, cheap but if you screw up you will pay extra 8 bucks just for shipping.

Have fun.

 

Good write up. Now that you mentioned it, my foot gets hung on mine every now and then. Might just have to get some and replace the driver side. Think the others are good - for now..

 

I just took mine off and covered the holes. I would fix them and then my heel would catch or a passengers heel would catch, freaking them out figuring they had really wreaked something. Don't even notice them gone.

 

Shoe Goo.....DONE

 

Have the same problems with those my are falling apart. One door at the time.

 

Sonnen has the clips for 51 cents each! You realize full msrp is only 60 cents? Auto Atlanta is kind of a rip off!