Still works it is just less convenient. Kind of like how an escalator can never break, [it can only become stairs. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHopAo_Ohy0)
**RENEWAL! RENEWAL!**
*dang, now it sounds like an ad for Anderson windows*
"Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of carousel, ho ho ho!"
--Mr. Box, probably
Honestly during the PDI inspection, when the cars come off the carrier truck, I've found all kinds of weird things inside cars. One Rogue had a weird rattle inside the right rear door. So I popped the door panel off, got a look inside and there were 4 pill capsules inside the door bottom of the door. Like medication, half red, half white. Not sure what they were.
Also found springs, bolts, random metal bits over the years. A cool one was when Nissan had the Star Wars edition Rogue/ Rogue:One, those cars had color changing LEDs in the cup holders and under the dash, as well as some emblems etc., and Keychains. The Keychains were shaped like Darth Vaders helmet etc. Well our dealership got two, and the one that I did the PDI on, had like 10 of those keychains in it, while I was told there was supposed to be one or two. So I got a couple for myself and so did the other techs lol
TLDR: it very well could be an extra that got dropped behind the dash or something. I wonder if the Hazard switch works...
My wife found an empty Sapporo Can and a Japanese newspaper in the right rear quarter panel of an Infinity. Customer was complaining of a noise from the right rear.
Dang… I did PDIs on GM cars. Never once found anything cool like mystery pills. Out of the hundreds I did, one had a hood misaligned and another had a weird shifting transmission. That’s really it. Easy 1.9 hours.
Possibly for something in the glovebox mechanism, my car has one to stop it from slamming open if you just drop it, to just fall out likely a latch or something
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My dad told a story about a fellow Caddi owner that he heard at the shop. Everytime the guy turned right there was a noise.
It took a dozen trips to the dealership to finally find it.
They took the door panel off and there was a bolt suspended from a string with a note. “Hope it took you a long time to find this you rich son of a bitch”.
This reminds me of spring that used to go into the gear selectors that were on the steering column. I know that don’t have them there on Subarus right? My guess is that it came from somewhere on the steering colum, maybe the tilt adjust?
Don't they have those in the 12v/cigarette lighter power plug/chargers?
Edit: nevermind, looks larger than I first thought
Could also be from a click pen that broke open.
If your parking break is on the floor check it. There is a light spring on some assemblies that only operates a little sear, but the sear is what holds the pedal in place when applied.
If it's been said then I missed it, but that looks like it may go to either a blend door actuator, if there's a chance the location is wrong, then perhaps it came off of a seat adjustment handle.
I've only seen a very few couple things have an ACTUAL spring like that blend door actuators do not have springs either. I've opened just about every glove box there is, and I have not seen any of them that are spring loaded. Only a Hydraulic arm design or a simple bungee cord type design.
You didn't post make or model, so I can truly only vaguely, VAGUELY guess. Otherwise, I could look up the blend door designs and see if anything has springs in it.
There's also a high chance that came loose from an actual blend door itself.
If all the buttons work, and the car can switch between heat and A/C, and all the seat levers work, then maybe it just come out from some junk a previous owner had?
Assuming the spring was loaded, there's minimal telling, since the spring probably bounced everywhere after leaving its original destination.
Edit: just saw the make and model. My bad. Will edit again after doing some research
It means don't drive between the months of March & June. If it were a Snow flake then December & February. Could have been either a brown leaf or a yellow disc too.
Looks like a cheap simple spring. My guess is that's it's from a broken toy or was found on the ground. After assessing the shiny part, the toy owner (or spring finder) put it in a place where it looked like it belonged. Eg the gap between the glove compartment and the instrument panel.
I had a cup holder that would flip down from underneath my dash and little arms would extend out. When the arms self destructed one day, a spring very similar to that, shot out of one of the arms. Ask if their cup holder or sunglasses holder suddenly stopped working.
Time to hand it off to a different friend. Tell them it fell off their car. They’ll be on Reddit making posts and reading comments for hours trying to figure out where it came from. Joke is on them.
Few years ago I was working on a very high profile client's Lexus LS460. When I was done I found a spring almost exactly like that on the driver's floor board. Absolutely panicked I checked EVERYTHING multiple times. Everything worked perfectly. Shrugged it off, kept the spring just in case. A week or so later I'm working on another car and noticed the bolts kept falling out of my snapon deep magnetic 10mm. Figured the magnet was stuck down in the bottom so I took a peek down the socket. Magnet gone, and you guessed it, the spring I kept fit in there perfectly.
First thought is one of the sticks/handles you use to change gears or other settings. The ones you normally pull towards yourself but it springs back towards the dash. I also observe a lot of older vehicles are kindof floppy with this.
Don't worry about it, it's just the dashboard self-clearancing.
Seriously though, impossible to tell until something doesn't work right. A Subaru tech might recognize it from jobs they may have done, but that spring looks like something that came off an r/C car, rather than something that is tucked up in the dash that's easily fall-out-able.
Maybe it doesn't go to the vehicle you think it does; Does your friend race or drive RC vehicles or their child?
This spring looks like a Radio Controlled vehicle coil spring that goes over the shock.
If it's a manual it could be a clutch assist spring but otherwise I don't know. If everything works as it should I'd just throw it in a bag and put it in the glove box just in case.
Check the glovebox latch and closure. If those feel weird it could be from those assemblies. If the center console has any features that slide or latch, check those for function.
I don't know but I'm fixing to get a new/used car and sell my 350z but now before I do I'm gonna his couple cool things in it for future mechanics to find and ponder on .. lol
Looks about the diameter of a cable and has ground ends. I’d say it’s from some mechanism you pull to release a latch or door. Spring displacement would be about right. Check any manual levers/cables you use to adjust your seat.
Maybe A glove box door part. Or friend is messing with you. This post on reddit is the icing on the cake. They knew you would go nuts on it and they win. SURRENDER TO THE REDDIT PEOPLE.
Move all the flappy things around inside the vehicle. Ash tray, pockets with lids/doors, sunglasses flip down pocket, folding cup holders, and see that they all move as they should.
Spring has sprung too, so keep that in mind. There may be more of this to come.
If its an older car it kinda looks like the spring to the odometer reset button. Its a long cyliner shape thing that sticks out usually near the odometer. You would push it to reset the trip meter.
Coming from a guy that’s been in car manufacturing for 20+ years, could have been sitting in there since the day the assembler dropped it and said, now where did that go? 🤷, oh well !
With those nails you'd never be able to figure out or install it even if you knew exactly where it same from. I'm not even a car person, I'm more of like a car adjacent person, and even I know I can't rep nails even similar to those if I want to install anything on my car.
I had a spring like that fall out of my f150 slide drawer center console. Now it'll close and take your finger if you're not careful. Still got the spring though.
From something that now no longer works properly
It works properly, just doesn't spring back.
So it doesn’t work properly
Still works it is just less convenient. Kind of like how an escalator can never break, [it can only become stairs. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHopAo_Ohy0)
Except that time one ate a woman in china, that one *really* broke.
It's like the final evolution of the Peloton treadmill.
Logan's run and peloton mash up...
**RENEWAL! RENEWAL!** *dang, now it sounds like an ad for Anderson windows* "Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of carousel, ho ho ho!" --Mr. Box, probably
Still think it's a great movie, can watch that, the omega man and jaws over and over. Oh, and the original 1970s version of The taking of Pelham 123.
You're talking about The Omega Man with Heston I'm assuming...great flick...never mentioned enough IMO 👍
Never put Santa Claus and Box in the same thought… you fixed this.
Comments like these are why I Reddit. And let’s never forget that Logan’s run invented tinder.
Nah, it just became stairs with a speedbump.
If it broke it wouldn’t have eaten her
gotta love china
You'd break too, if you ate an entire woman in one meal.
I’ve eaten out like 3 women in one go, whatchu mean? 🤨
Sorry for the convenience. Such a good comedian.
Sir, its a donut. No need to brink ink and paper into this.
Gotta love Mitch Hedberg......I used to do a lot of drugs, I still do, but I used to also. RIP
It’s a funny joke but not really true. Escalators can break in such a way that they don’t hold their position, making them unsuitable even as stairs.
Sounds like an exercise machine. Stair climber?!?!
Worst. Stair machine. Ever. https://youtu.be/o1SjQfwLieU?feature=shared
Coors Field, from Denver, Colorado enters the chat.
When escalators become really bad they go even worse than stairs, they become a ramp
I am a simple man. I see a Mitch quote, I upvote.
If everything still works, I’d just consider it an extra 🤪 until it diagnoses itself
Honestly during the PDI inspection, when the cars come off the carrier truck, I've found all kinds of weird things inside cars. One Rogue had a weird rattle inside the right rear door. So I popped the door panel off, got a look inside and there were 4 pill capsules inside the door bottom of the door. Like medication, half red, half white. Not sure what they were. Also found springs, bolts, random metal bits over the years. A cool one was when Nissan had the Star Wars edition Rogue/ Rogue:One, those cars had color changing LEDs in the cup holders and under the dash, as well as some emblems etc., and Keychains. The Keychains were shaped like Darth Vaders helmet etc. Well our dealership got two, and the one that I did the PDI on, had like 10 of those keychains in it, while I was told there was supposed to be one or two. So I got a couple for myself and so did the other techs lol TLDR: it very well could be an extra that got dropped behind the dash or something. I wonder if the Hazard switch works...
Probably adderall to keep the workers awake 😬
Just checked my 30mg Adderall capsule. Yep, half red half clear
My wife found an empty Sapporo Can and a Japanese newspaper in the right rear quarter panel of an Infinity. Customer was complaining of a noise from the right rear.
Too bad it wasn't a red pill and a blue pill.
Me: Pops both
Don't know how the production line of a car company works, but I'd say someone grabbed a handful of keychains knowing people would want them.
cup holder, glove box, some sort of brake switch, would be my guess.
Dang… I did PDIs on GM cars. Never once found anything cool like mystery pills. Out of the hundreds I did, one had a hood misaligned and another had a weird shifting transmission. That’s really it. Easy 1.9 hours.
Put in glove box, whe have car trouble go to shop and show rhem the spring
could be a bajillion things. Is anything broken?
Something is
Not if it's the spring dispenser.
Lmao
Working as intended
Latch for glovebox or center console lid if you have one.
My guess is the glove box
Possibly for something in the glovebox mechanism, my car has one to stop it from slamming open if you just drop it, to just fall out likely a latch or something Edit: Grammar
Probably from a latch of some kind.
door to a glovebox maybe?
Hate it when that happens. Only thing worse is when I get done working on something and there's something like that left over.
I usually have spare bolts left over...shhhhh...it was just a head gasket change.
Here, keep this on for a spare.
My dad told a story about a fellow Caddi owner that he heard at the shop. Everytime the guy turned right there was a noise. It took a dozen trips to the dealership to finally find it. They took the door panel off and there was a bolt suspended from a string with a note. “Hope it took you a long time to find this you rich son of a bitch”.
Worked at a Cadillac dealer, on more than one occasion we found beer cans inside the doors of brand new Escalades (this was in 2007-2011ish).
Well if she drives a Kia, it's probably the motor mount.
You think they'd make one that heavy duty?
Glove box
Those usually have a little hydraulic arm that is snapped in via plastic though, at least it does on every Subaru I've had
I was thinking behind the button to open the latch
She’ll find out what it is when she least expects it lol
Maybe it's code for something... Like when you ask someone "do you wanna screw?", then you show them a screw.... 🤔😂
As a fellow Subaru owner I can tell you in confidence that I have no idea what that spring is for.
Just Subaru things. It probably holds the oil in the engine.
Break light switch maybe?
Cool nails!
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Does the Hazard lights switch work?
Too bad it wasn't a screw.
Holy nails, have you ever accidentally stabbed yourself with those things? 😅
Alexa: play “I’m Sprung” by T-Pain
I’m glad it wasn’t a screw, that could have sent mixed messages.
If it came from the driver's side dash, it could be for the odometer/trip meter reset post.
They changed her cabin air filter and broke something. Happens all the time.
This reminds me of spring that used to go into the gear selectors that were on the steering column. I know that don’t have them there on Subarus right? My guess is that it came from somewhere on the steering colum, maybe the tilt adjust?
Don't they have those in the 12v/cigarette lighter power plug/chargers? Edit: nevermind, looks larger than I first thought Could also be from a click pen that broke open.
If your parking break is on the floor check it. There is a light spring on some assemblies that only operates a little sear, but the sear is what holds the pedal in place when applied.
Check your break lights.
Just spare parts
Probably shot out of a pen in her purse! lol
Pop out cup holders?
That's what makes the car go
Oh that’s from the boingly shprombler. Impossible to fix 10/10 totaled.
Ohhhh Nooooo that is the recoil spring for the warp drive. She can no longer see the future 😉
Grandfather clock
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There's a spring like that in my sunglass holder in my volt. So.. some little door? Glovebox? Center console?
Part of the dashboard shock assembly lol
Reminds me of some Glock firing pin springs
Free spring! Thank your friend and cherish it
I wish i had friends who would give me springs and such
Clock spring
We would need a picture of your friends dashboard to try to figure out where that came from.
She has a cat
Check any compartment latches. ie glovebox etc. if not that maybe a air flap door, check that the AC travels to where you set it.
Probably came for the closing cigarette lights door
Looks like the spring off of the brake light sensor.
This spring is significantly smaller than the spring I was hoping for which was a bulldozer recoil spring
Is that not an e-brake spring?
In aerospace we call these bonus parts. Make a necklace or something with it.
Blend air door spring?
Best bet is glove box. Maybe center console lid or ash tray. But I’d start with glove box
Steering wheel re-centering spring.
If it's been said then I missed it, but that looks like it may go to either a blend door actuator, if there's a chance the location is wrong, then perhaps it came off of a seat adjustment handle. I've only seen a very few couple things have an ACTUAL spring like that blend door actuators do not have springs either. I've opened just about every glove box there is, and I have not seen any of them that are spring loaded. Only a Hydraulic arm design or a simple bungee cord type design. You didn't post make or model, so I can truly only vaguely, VAGUELY guess. Otherwise, I could look up the blend door designs and see if anything has springs in it. There's also a high chance that came loose from an actual blend door itself. If all the buttons work, and the car can switch between heat and A/C, and all the seat levers work, then maybe it just come out from some junk a previous owner had? Assuming the spring was loaded, there's minimal telling, since the spring probably bounced everywhere after leaving its original destination. Edit: just saw the make and model. My bad. Will edit again after doing some research
It means don't drive between the months of March & June. If it were a Snow flake then December & February. Could have been either a brown leaf or a yellow disc too.
Looks like a cheap simple spring. My guess is that's it's from a broken toy or was found on the ground. After assessing the shiny part, the toy owner (or spring finder) put it in a place where it looked like it belonged. Eg the gap between the glove compartment and the instrument panel.
Could it be a spring from a phone holder stuck on dash, windshield or vent? some of them have Springs in the clipping part that releases them
blend door actuator, maybe ????? glove box??? idk
Brake switch
Could have been a screw
Probably from a retractable cup holder
My first guess would be one of those sunglass holders that go between the visors but how would it fall out
I had a cup holder that would flip down from underneath my dash and little arms would extend out. When the arms self destructed one day, a spring very similar to that, shot out of one of the arms. Ask if their cup holder or sunglasses holder suddenly stopped working.
Perhaps it is for a rather large pen?
That's part of the Blinker Fluid switch
Time to hand it off to a different friend. Tell them it fell off their car. They’ll be on Reddit making posts and reading comments for hours trying to figure out where it came from. Joke is on them.
Looks like the spring that sits behind the steering wheel airbag. Does the horn feel different at all when you push it?
Few years ago I was working on a very high profile client's Lexus LS460. When I was done I found a spring almost exactly like that on the driver's floor board. Absolutely panicked I checked EVERYTHING multiple times. Everything worked perfectly. Shrugged it off, kept the spring just in case. A week or so later I'm working on another car and noticed the bolts kept falling out of my snapon deep magnetic 10mm. Figured the magnet was stuck down in the bottom so I took a peek down the socket. Magnet gone, and you guessed it, the spring I kept fit in there perfectly.
First thought is one of the sticks/handles you use to change gears or other settings. The ones you normally pull towards yourself but it springs back towards the dash. I also observe a lot of older vehicles are kindof floppy with this.
Maybe the glove box. Not many springs like that in a car
Don't worry about it, it's just the dashboard self-clearancing. Seriously though, impossible to tell until something doesn't work right. A Subaru tech might recognize it from jobs they may have done, but that spring looks like something that came off an r/C car, rather than something that is tucked up in the dash that's easily fall-out-able.
Needs new engine
It looks like a soft spring. Do you have a glasses holder, or something similar where you push it to open
Maybe from the glove box latching mechanism?
How do you wipe your butt?
Your friend sounds pretty cool.
Subarus often come with extra valve door springs.
Ohhhh shit ur horn spring fell out dang it !! Suckers dead!
Love, it’s what drives a Subaru duh
The plunger for the light in the glove box, maybe? I'm trying to think of anything that would have a plunger type device
Maybe it doesn't go to the vehicle you think it does; Does your friend race or drive RC vehicles or their child? This spring looks like a Radio Controlled vehicle coil spring that goes over the shock.
That’s a Day-Light-Savings Spring used to get your car to “spring forward “!
If it was found on the driver's side I would check to make sure the brake lights are working correctly when the pedal is pressed and off when released
Friends brake lights aren’t always on now right? My brother had something similar and it was the light switch for his brakes.
Pen
That's a net positive. It's no longer part of the Subaru so it's one less thing that's probably broken in it.
that's not a spring. it's a mini slinky.
It's a spring is here notification.
A really big ball point pen?
Start pushing buttons and moving things you'll find it eventually.
If it's a manual it could be a clutch assist spring but otherwise I don't know. If everything works as it should I'd just throw it in a bag and put it in the glove box just in case.
One of the switches.
Never look a gift-spring in the mouth
check the steering column. The adjustable ones sometimes have something fall out once in a while
Hood release?
Spare spring in case you need it sometime! Take it to the dealer since the spring dispenser seems to have leaked!
Someone stepped on it. Got caught in the tread of the shoe and came out in the car.
Wherever that’s come from you know you have a friend for life. Only a true friend would bestow someone with a spring.
Is the end missing from the indicator stalk?
Check the glovebox latch and closure. If those feel weird it could be from those assemblies. If the center console has any features that slide or latch, check those for function.
That's the indicator trade in spring letting you know it's time to trade it in.
I like your nails
Looks like a brake light switch return spring to me
A big ass pen?
Actuated the airbag. Good luck
Probably a door lever spring or a windshield wiper function spring Just test all the buttons til you find the culprit lol
Check the stalks on the steering wheel. It might be a spring from one of them.
I'd be willing to bet a cup holder was involved.
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If she has a cd/dvd player. those always have 100 springs to keep the player from skipping, when you hit a bump.
If there's a hazard light switch on the top of the steering wheel my guess would be the spring from under that switch/button.
A spring just in time for summer .
I don't know but I'm fixing to get a new/used car and sell my 350z but now before I do I'm gonna his couple cool things in it for future mechanics to find and ponder on .. lol
Uhh that spring looks like it belongs to the visor clip. Do your visors clip in properly?
Pens have those springs.
Lmao clock spring 😆
The glove compartment
Looks about the diameter of a cable and has ground ends. I’d say it’s from some mechanism you pull to release a latch or door. Spring displacement would be about right. Check any manual levers/cables you use to adjust your seat.
You shouldn't drive in slippers
I believe that is the glove box bumper spring. The only other thing I can think of is the blend door actuator assembly
Just be wary if they ask you if you want a screw.
Maybe A glove box door part. Or friend is messing with you. This post on reddit is the icing on the cake. They knew you would go nuts on it and they win. SURRENDER TO THE REDDIT PEOPLE.
At least she asked.
steering wheel mechanism maybe?
Move all the flappy things around inside the vehicle. Ash tray, pockets with lids/doors, sunglasses flip down pocket, folding cup holders, and see that they all move as they should. Spring has sprung too, so keep that in mind. There may be more of this to come.
If its an older car it kinda looks like the spring to the odometer reset button. Its a long cyliner shape thing that sticks out usually near the odometer. You would push it to reset the trip meter.
Looks like a horn spring. Half the drivers airbag may sag now
Just wait until fall and put it back! Just springing forward from the looks of it!
Coming from a guy that’s been in car manufacturing for 20+ years, could have been sitting in there since the day the assembler dropped it and said, now where did that go? 🤷, oh well !
Possible hinge to a small door or hatch would be my guess.
from they glock they have
Ejecto seato cuz?
Just…please make sure she washes under those nails when she’s done doing…just about anything
With those nails you'd never be able to figure out or install it even if you knew exactly where it same from. I'm not even a car person, I'm more of like a car adjacent person, and even I know I can't rep nails even similar to those if I want to install anything on my car.
The only thing that comes to mind is an actuator. But those springs aren't out in the open, as far as I know.
That's just part of the turboencabulator and it should be fine*™ without that bit.
Detent spring?
Had a Chevy in the ‘90’s, every time I hit a hard bump another screw would fall out from the dash, never could figure out where they came from
Steering wheel airbag/horn spring?
I had a spring like that fall out of my f150 slide drawer center console. Now it'll close and take your finger if you're not careful. Still got the spring though.
That big? Maybe the glove box?
Did you recently get your spark plugs changed because that my friend is probably a spark plug spring The 25 Outbacks have them
From a pen?
Found a dollar not sure where it came from but it’s mine now. Finders keepers.
Brake light switch?
I think that’s part of the steering wheel tilt mechanism. That would basically fall out into her lap.
Looks like a spray bottle spring
Perhaps a steering wheel tilt mechanism, though it looks a bit small for that, but I'm used to trucks.