Found part on the ground under car....

AyaneEiketsu · #1 (**permalink**) 01-03-2011, 07:11 PM

I just got back from getting my oil changed and they said they found a leak in the transmission/transaxle. Well after I got home from making an appointment at the dealership (I know, I know) I found this on the ground where I park my beetle.

Anyone have any idea what that is and if that's the problem?

DZLBUG · #2 (**permalink**) 01-03-2011, 07:45 PM

Thats galvanized steel, so it didn't come off your car.

Automatic or manual?

jason m · #3 (**permalink**) 01-03-2011, 07:49 PM

could that be an access door for a skid plate?

Toad · #4 (**permalink**) 01-03-2011, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by DZLBUG

Thats galvanized...

Galvanized eh? Sounds legit.

AyaneEiketsu · #5 (**permalink**) 01-03-2011, 08:12 PM

Unfortunately it's an Automatic trans.

DZLBUG · #6 (**permalink**) 01-03-2011, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jason m

could that be an access door for a skid plate?

It definitely looks like an access door of some sort, but I don't know of any galvanized skid plates.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toad

Galvanized eh? Sounds legit.

My WTF meter is pegged...

MyOtherRidesAVette · #7 (**permalink**) 01-03-2011, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DZLBUG

My WTF meter is pegged...

Got an arse chewin' for getting "off topic" like this on some else's thread, earlier today!
dbl

MORAV

Toad · #8 (**permalink**) 01-03-2011, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by MyOtherRidesAVette

Got an arse chewin' for getting "off topic" like this on some else's thread, earlier today!
dbl

MORAV

Well, I have to agree with DZLBUG.. I have never seen anything on a vw using that kind of metal. Looks like some piece of fencing or something. You can look around for some sort of half circle shaped hole.. but i doubt there is.

Oh yeah... the picture links to an explanation of galvanized....

MyOtherRidesAVette · #9 (**permalink**) 01-04-2011, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Toad

Well, I have to agree with DZLBUG.. I have never seen anything on a vw using that kind of metal. Looks like some piece of fencing or something. You can look around for some sort of half circle shaped hole.. but i doubt there is.

Oh yeah... the picture links to an explanation of galvanized....

It was the LAST comment I was referring to, and I wasn't sayin! I enjoy the humor! Po'd me that someone chastized me for the same thing in another thread and it was actually poking at them!

MORAV

crunchbuggy · #10 (**permalink**) 02-22-2011, 01:00 AM

That is the electrical cover plate of the top of an electric water heater........(I know that because I'm a plumber....

)

jason m · #11 (**permalink**) 02-22-2011, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by crunchbuggy

That is the electrical cover plate of the top of an electric water heater........(I know that because I'm a plumber....

)

And why the h*ll did YOU leave that under his car in the first place.

AyaneEiketsu · #12 (**permalink**) 02-22-2011, 02:06 AM

We did get a new water heater a while back, so that might have been it

Either way my bug has been fixed...and traded. No longer the owner of the NB

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