Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

lost a small screwdriver bit (approx 1" long) while tightening up my idle solenoid screws this afternoon.
Boo!!
Thing is I have looked and really cant find it, do I drive and pray or search and go home late?

(Dr Pepper mode)Whats the worst that can happen? (/Dr Pepper mode)

BO77OCKS...

NotoriousREV

Buy one of them magnets on the end of a telescopic ple (like a radio aerial) they're only cheap and you can reclaim all them nuts, washers etc. that disappear into the engine bay

Fat Fingered REV

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

will do, but cant even see the damned thing, let alone get a magnetic-pole-radio-ariel-like thing in to retreive it
ah well, best not have the radio on on the drive home, listening for a screwdriver getting wedged somewhere bad

cheers for the tip

NotoriousREV

Just wave it around in the area you think it's in, the magnet thingies are pretty flexible so you can get it in nooks and crannies.

mart360

pnuts

im back home if you wanna give me a call


Mart

wakeboardar

i lost a fridge in my ford capri once

chiark

I hate to be a killjoy, but the magnet thingy will be "fun". Y'see, the majority of things in your engine bay will stick to a magnet...

Turn the car upside down and shake it - it'll fall out

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

PMSL you always get helpful replies on here and if you don't then someone makes you laugh your t!ts off

StickyMicky

i was changing a front bottom arm on one of my older cars and lost a 17mm spanner, could not find it, gave up in the end, 2 weeks later i was on my mates ramps at quickfit and found the thing still on the 17mm bottom arm nut! lmfao

wiltshire_boy

I've left my locking wheel nut adaptor on a nut and driven for 20 minutes then spent another hour or so looking for it, retraced my route everything, then thought "i'll just check the wheel" DOH!

Gary C

Once worked on my GF's escort (ok, ok )which had been rebuilt after a smash a year earilier,

Found 2 screwdrivers and a spanner !

chiark

You really don't want to know how much I sniggered when I read that

*Sonic*

take the engine under tray off, its probably in there, or down the road somewhere

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Could try driving down the road sedatly and slamming on the brakes, hopefully whatever is on the tray will slide to the front and you'll be able to get at it. Could also fall out too!

Otherwise

I think you may just be able to drop the tray down at the front, two 14mm bolts at the front and two 8mm (i think) in the wheel arches, but drop it down carefully.... you don't want the back bit comming unclipped - you'll need a ramp to put it back on if that happens.

I remember with my XR3, I lost my long nose pliers, 3months later I happened to open the bonnet for something and there they were on top of the one shock absorber Also cured an odd rattle I had for 3months too

Fuzz

buy another one you tight git

I doubt it will get trapped or fall in anywhere dangerous.

Andy

BOB.T

We once had a customer return a lump hammer that we'd lost, she found it under her bonnet somewhere...we never saw her again after that

*Sonic*

hehe at least it was a lump hammer, and not a part from her engine

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

pmsl
once the tears have stopped I will go and buy a new screwdriver head

can just imagine the police statement after a hideous 4 car pile up in town, "well officer, the lads on Scoobynet told me to slam on my brakes suddenly, I was looking for my screwdriver head honest!!"

Mad Scientist

Mates car went for a service last week...........they found a bread knife stuffed in the heatshield to stop it rattling!

R.B.5

PMSL @ this thread