Re: what's this clipped bar?

On Mar 26, 5:54 am, Bill <wtjohns...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I was struck in the left rear quarter panel.  The other driver's
> insurance paid for the repair.  It's been about a month.  The trunk
> carpet has been damp.  Turned out the spare wheel well was filling
> with water.  The body and fender guy didn't put the two plugs back in
> place over the two bolts on the driver's side through the trunk
> floor.  Of those bolts one is loose and can't be tightened without
> threat of breaking the bolt.  In the bottom of the spare wheel well
> was a discarded metal bar dimensions of which are: 8.9cm long x 3.3cm
> in diameter.  There are three channels: 1.8cm from either end with
> clips and a center channel with a heavy C clip.
>
> Is the car safe to drive with this fairly massive pivot of some kind
> not reinstalled?
>
> Bill

Well, it turns out the bar is I'm told probably a part of some tool
one of the workers had been using to repair the fender and not part of
the car.  Also, the spare wheel well filled with water from a leak in
the new left tail light seal not as a result of the two rubber plugs
having been left out of the bolt holes.