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Old May 20, 2015 | 12:54 PM
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What's This Plastic Thing?
I found this plastic thing under my passenger seat as I was vacuuming the car. I don't know what it is or if it even belongs to the car. Can you tell?
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Old May 21, 2015 | 05:04 AM
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Plastic thing?
It looks like a faucet to sink gasket.
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Old May 21, 2015 | 11:40 AM
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But in all reality I don't think it belongs to the car. It actually does look like some kind of gasket for a faucet or sink, my second best guess would maybe be a wire management for something under the seat, but I've never looked under the seat... Looks foreign
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Old May 22, 2015 | 12:33 PM
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Have you recently gone back to dating!!
The bait is not working, until I've figured out what that plastic thing is. They just won't bite!
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Old May 22, 2015 | 04:57 PM
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I'll put ten bucks on "it's a sink faucet gasket" please.

What's that writing on it? "ROB"? & "RON"? I bet the faucet install instructions refer to those for hooking up the hot and cold water lines.
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I'll put ten bucks on "it's a sink faucet gasket" please.

What's that writing on it? "ROB"? & "RON"? I bet the faucet install instructions refer to those for hooking up the hot and cold water lines.
It is not, this is hard plastic and too thick & rigid to be a gasket, as thick as a nickel. Writing says "FRONT" by each opening.

OK, if nobody could recognize it as belonging to car, maybe it's just debris from previous owner.
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Its a plastic thing a ma jig.
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Can't tell from the size but it looks like something form the homelink buttons on your mirror. Not sure how that would fall out though (unless someone was doing a repair and lost it)
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What's the size of this thing? If it's 4 inches from the center of the left hole to the center of the right hole, it's a bath faucet to sink gasket.
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Can't tell from the size but it looks like something form the homelink buttons on your mirror. Not sure how that would fall out though (unless someone was doing a repair and lost it)
Now that's the first idea that sounds feasible for an actual part of the car.... unless that white gunk is calcium buildup... in which case it's a faucet gasket again.

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scale? How big is it?
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I placed it next to my bathroom faucet and it's about the same size at the base. That build up is probably calcium gunk. So, I say those who suggested it being a faucet gasket are right on. Best news is that it's not a part that came out of car. Now, I believe the previous owner may have just dropped it and forgot all about it.

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