Another "what is this" thread.....2008 Cayman....found this piece on the floor between the passenger seat and the door sill. I have no idea what it is or where it came from. Paper clip in the picture is standard small size and included for a size reference.
Just random guessing here - but might it be a clip holding upholstery around a body seam, or perhaps the leather for the seat bottom around whatever it fastens to. Or.. has the door panel been off recently?
I can imagine it pushing onto a body seam (welded edge seam) and then the finger on it holding something down. If you can figure it out I'd be curious where one might find one of these.. I have a use for such a thing actually..
You've got me Don. No interior work done recently or ever for that matter. Seat never removed, door card never removed, etc. No numbers on it that I can see.
@Budman
- I hope someone can tell us what it is.. I'd really like to locate a source. On my Boxster the seat belt rubbed on my neck. No matter how I adjusted it - it rubbed and was uncomfortable.. after lots of trials - I noticed the wife's Lexus had an elastic attached seatbelt guide in the rear seats for just this sort of reason. I researched it and found I could buy that guide from Lexus for $11/each. It has a molded plastic part that captures the belt - but lets it slide through, and an elastic cord to attach it to the body. Right now (and for the past 3 years or so) the elastic is simply captured to the body on the pinch welded seam that the door gasket mounts to - folded over the seam and held in place by the rubber gasket. When the door is closed it can't pull out, the gasket holds it quite firmly in place. It can pull out if pulled the wrong way when the door is open. That's what this would solve for me. It would slide over the welded seam, and the finger could be used to keep the cord in place, perfect for my use. It's small enough it should fit fine under the rubber gasket.
All I need now is a source.. or part number or even a description I could use to find it in a parts catalog. Grrrr... hope someone recognizes it.
Sorry, I have no clue either. What is inside the clip? The pic looks like it could be a piece of broken plastic.
The silver metal clip is attached to a black piece of plastic, at least that what it appears to be, now that I've looked at it again, and the outer edge of that black plastic does appear to have broken off a wider but not longer piece of plastic. Good observation. Until you suggested it, I thought the black part was a piece of metal but it's not.
