I just got back home and found this on my driveway. It wasn't there when I left this morning and is in the path of where I backed up to leave. Does this look familiar to anyone?
Thanks for any help. The car seemed to drive as usual.

 

that looks like a miniature version of mich's tweel. hahaha.

 

kinda looks like the wheel off a belt tensioner

 

I think given the condition that thing is in, it would have produced quite a noise when it dislodged from wherever it was mounted, bounced around, got hot, melted, and ground down as it found its way toward a gap at which point it could hit the driveway.

Safe bet is that it flew off someone else's vehicle or even gasoline powered landscaping equipment.

You'd have noticed. And your car would be behaving funny.

 

You guys sure it is not the muffler bearing????

Mike

 

Oh man, that looks burned/chewed up quite bad. Lol, never a good thing to find random parts on your driveway. Do any other vehicles park on that driveway? Check your belts for any slack. Don't want that alternator not working. Once, I had a bearing pop off my A/C unit and my battery ran out of juice after a while.

 

Without doubt, that item is the Veeblefetzer coupling. Its failure puts additional stress on the Gaderius valve, which will soon break and leave you stranded. Be sure you know how to use your tow hook.

 

its a cap for blinker fluid resevoir

 

No one else parks on my driveway. The piece was about 30 feet from the road. First thing I checked was the wheel to my trash can. And no oil delivery today, so not a piece off the fuel truck.

I looked under the car and in engine area and didn't notice anything amiss.
But then, my mechanical / car abilities only went as far as my '71 beetle and that was decades ago. And an engine not much more complex than a lawn mower.

 

Just check your ignition fluid regularly, and you should be OK.

I had a '71 Super Beetle, and stuff like that used to turn up in my engine compartment all the time.

I think other people used to put it there to mess with me, because the car still went anyway. Even after I wrecked it.

 

I would take note of this post and head caution.

Bring 'er down to the dealership or just a local mechanic. Trust me, it's way better to be safe than sorry. I learned that from my 98 Jetta which left me stranded quite a few times.

Good luck!

 

I'd be cautious about the car...but from the looks of that pic (whatever it is) it looks like it had some chunks taken out of it (as if a lawnmower hit it) Check your neighbors and see if any of them have freshly cut grass....

Edit..just seen your in NY doubt anybody is mowing grass yet...but worth a try.

 

*belt tensioner

*blinker fluid resevoir

*ignition fluid

These are all jokes, right? Just woods on that side of the house. So no neighbors stuff. For now I'll go with rolled up driveway from a passing vehicle. But I'll keep it in the glove box, just in case. Thanks for the thoughts!

 

haha...How did it got there?...lol...What's that?...

 

its the cap to a gas powered weed eater, a lawnmower /snow blower ran over it and shot it in your driveway. Be glad it didn't take out your back window

 

There is no way that part came off of your FIT...

 

You could take it to a lab to carbon date it. If the part doesn't match the time frame for a Fit part build, you could be in the clear!

 

Carbon dating is only accurate + or - a couple of hundred years. I think the original poster should question his wife carefully. My alternate hypothesis is that she has a secret lover who drives a beat up old car, unbeknownst to him.

 

The plot thickens!

 

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