Notices
ScoobyNet General General Subaru Discussion
Sponsored by:
Sponsored by:

Can someone identify this?

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 09 December 2003, 05:58 PM
  #1  
GaryCat
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
 
GaryCat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 2,043
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

I found this in the spare wheel well of my MY03 WRX wrapped in a bubblewrap bag. Does anyone know what it's for?



Gary.
Old 09 December 2003, 06:19 PM
  #2  
IanW
Scooby Regular
 
IanW's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 21,865
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Question

CD Changer Mounting Kit?
Old 09 December 2003, 06:23 PM
  #3  
GaryCat
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
 
GaryCat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 2,043
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Don't think so. The thing on the right looks like a relay but only has 4 connectors and the metal box comes apart in two halves.
Old 09 December 2003, 06:58 PM
  #4  
scoobyboy
Scooby Regular
 
scoobyboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: uk
Posts: 3,409
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

the relay looks like the fuel pump relay but no idea what the metal thing is
Old 09 December 2003, 07:04 PM
  #5  
jaf01uk
Scooby Regular
 
jaf01uk's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Elgin, NE Scotland
Posts: 635
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Looks like somethin you would find under a car seat?
Old 09 December 2003, 07:08 PM
  #6  
Nathan L
Scooby Regular
 
Nathan L's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 5,502
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Unhappy

This has been asked before by someone else but I'll be buggered If I can remember what the answer was.

Nathan..
Old 09 December 2003, 07:10 PM
  #7  
Creepy
Scooby Regular
 
Creepy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Land without a governement...LOL
Posts: 609
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Maybe the metal thing is for fixing a child seat or so ? It looks very much like the part that holds the rear seat belts in the middle of the rear seat.

Creepy
Old 09 December 2003, 07:22 PM
  #8  
NotoriousREV
Scooby Regular
 
NotoriousREV's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 11,581
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Is the metal bit a wheel chock for when you jack the car up? My Lexus had a thing similar to that.
Old 09 December 2003, 07:42 PM
  #9  
GaryCat
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
 
GaryCat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 2,043
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Yeah I thought of that but why would it have a relay if it is a chock.

(Has another look) - yeah it's definitely a relay 12v 22A made by Denso.

[Edited by GaryCat - 12/9/2003 7:45:46 PM]
Old 10 December 2003, 09:58 AM
  #10  
DeanF
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (1)
 
DeanF's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 2,808
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Looks like one of the Brackets from under the Bulk Head inside the Car !!!

Dean
Old 10 December 2003, 10:02 AM
  #11  
johnfelstead
Scooby Regular
Support Scoobynet!
 
johnfelstead's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 11,439
Received 53 Likes on 30 Posts
Post

someone forgot to do something on the PDI? That definately bolts in place and isnt a wheel chock.
Old 10 December 2003, 10:21 AM
  #12  
dsmith
Scooby Regular
 
dsmith's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 1999
Posts: 4,518
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

This has been asked before by someone else but I'll be buggered If I can remember what the answer was.
It was me. And I didnt get one (well not a sensible one )

Was yours a euro-import per chance ? (mine was). I could only conclude it ws something to do with that....

Edit: This Thread

Deano



[Edited by dsmith - 12/10/2003 10:23:48 AM]
Old 10 December 2003, 10:24 AM
  #13  
GaryCat
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
 
GaryCat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 2,043
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Yes it is a euro-import, Dutch I think.
Old 10 December 2003, 10:29 AM
  #14  
johnfelstead
Scooby Regular
Support Scoobynet!
 
johnfelstead's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 11,439
Received 53 Likes on 30 Posts
Post

could it be used as part of a towbar fitting kit? reinforce plate for inside the car maybe?
Old 10 December 2003, 10:43 AM
  #15  
dsmith
Scooby Regular
 
dsmith's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 1999
Posts: 4,518
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Could well be. The odd thing is the 2 halves are clearly designed to mate and be held by the bolts. I could only conclude you'd make it that way if a) it went round something to protect it or b) it went either side of an existing (flat) panel.

I've been meaning to have another look (or even ring a dutch/belgian dealer and ask) for a while.

I was also thinking it was possibly related to soemthing UK spec has std - but Euro cars dont. My car came with a "safety kit" (fire extinguisher + 1st aid kit + Triangle) fitted by the euro dealer but (I dont believe) std on UK cars. I thought it was maybe part of that kit that related to Euro models only. rear Fog light Bracket ? or something

Deano

[Edited by dsmith - 12/10/2003 10:46:45 AM]
Old 10 December 2003, 11:50 AM
  #16  
pbee
Scooby Regular
 
pbee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 1,428
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

its for fitting an alarm, the place that fitted my alarm said they wouldnt use it, as what is the point in putting the central alarm unit were someone will know exactly where it is.
Old 10 December 2003, 12:20 PM
  #17  
yoza
BANNED
 
yoza's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: LIVERPOOL THE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
Posts: 8,511
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

"I know, I know", 'jumps up and down waving one arm in the air'.


Its a puller attachment for a 'Car Lazor Liner', which is a device used for straightening crash damaged cars. I suggest you contact the dealer you bought the car from, and give them it back.

The car, not the attachment.

Later Yoza























All said in jest, sorry Im bored..........
Old 10 December 2003, 12:52 PM
  #18  
Whattherob
Scooby Newbie
 
Whattherob's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Tracking device fitting cage?
Old 10 December 2003, 02:12 PM
  #19  
Brit_in_Japan
Scooby Regular
 
Brit_in_Japan's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: No longer Japan !
Posts: 1,742
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

My guess would be part of a towbar fitting kit. The main body may be in two parts to help fitting. The relay(s?) would be so you could take feeds from the rear lights for the running lights on the trailer ?
Old 10 December 2003, 04:56 PM
  #20  
pugoetru
Scooby Regular
 
pugoetru's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: from a land thats cold and wet
Posts: 2,088
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

I have the real answer as said above the question has been asked previously and the answer is
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
**** knows
Old 10 December 2003, 04:59 PM
  #21  
OllyK
Scooby Regular
 
OllyK's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 12,304
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

If you attach that to the car with those bolts and then put a tow bar on it, remind me not to follow you if you are towing anything as I don't fancy pushing whatever you were towing 2 seconds before!

Really does not look substantial enough for tow bar fitting to me, not unless that relay is actually huge!
Old 10 December 2003, 05:06 PM
  #22  
Gridlock Mikey
Scooby Regular
 
Gridlock Mikey's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: http://www.facebook.com
Posts: 15,233
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Question

So what is it then?

Mikey
Old 10 December 2003, 05:11 PM
  #23  
OllyK
Scooby Regular
 
OllyK's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 12,304
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Wish I knew - easier to say what it is not than what it is!

Guess you have to work by a process of elimination, as it is not a UK car, and UK cars don't seem to have this, what are the Europeans likely to have that we aren't on a car? Short answer, dunno!

[Edited by OllyK - 12/10/2003 5:12:08 PM]
Old 10 December 2003, 05:16 PM
  #24  
AK47
Scooby Regular
 
AK47's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 519
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

can people who do not know what the **** it is make guesses please? each time there is a new reply I keep thinking someone has sussed it out!

serious answers on a post card...the suspence
Old 10 December 2003, 05:24 PM
  #25  
OllyK
Scooby Regular
 
OllyK's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 12,304
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Just looked at the towbar kit - so pretty sure it isn't that:


OK - done some scouting, how about Mounting for rear acoustic parking aid?
Old 10 December 2003, 05:58 PM
  #26  
johnfelstead
Scooby Regular
Support Scoobynet!
 
johnfelstead's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 11,439
Received 53 Likes on 30 Posts
Post

could it be for a seatbelt inertial real mount? do they have diferent centre rear seatbelts on a Euro to UK spec?
Old 10 December 2003, 06:08 PM
  #27  
pugoetru
Scooby Regular
 
pugoetru's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: from a land thats cold and wet
Posts: 2,088
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

yea it looks a bit seatbelty
Old 10 December 2003, 06:13 PM
  #28  
pbee
Scooby Regular
 
pbee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 1,428
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

you obviously do not believe me its the bracket for the alarm system subaru uk use it for attaching the sigma m30/32 too.

your eu dealer would of used it to fit whatever dealer fit alarm system if it was staying in county or purchase but as it was supplied with no alarm they wouldnt of fitted just the bracket.

take it too whoever is going to fit your alarm and they may use it.
Old 10 December 2003, 06:36 PM
  #29  
pugoetru
Scooby Regular
 
pugoetru's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: from a land thats cold and wet
Posts: 2,088
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

whats the relay for ?
Old 10 December 2003, 07:59 PM
  #30  
GaryCat
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
 
GaryCat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 2,043
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

So do UK models have the alarm fitted to a bracket like this? Can someone with a UK MY03 have a look?


Quick Reply: Can someone identify this?



All times are GMT +1. The time now is 12:31 PM.