Can you identify this bolt?

[meltdowner]

I took my undercarriage cover off the other day to clean the frame. Low and behold I found a bolt stuck ontop the cover in grease. I did not take this off, but I did have some guys grease my zerks recently, could they have forgotten to put this back on?

help GREATLY appreciated. I did look around and could not find any holes that looked to fit this.
:girl:

 

[mijbr90190]

Looks like the drain plug for the oil.

 

[2016 4Runner SR5]

Agreed. Maybe the dealer "lost it" doing an oil change and stuck another one in there without telling you?

 

[meltdowner]

It does look like a plug for something, very possible they dropped it and just replaced it with another. I'm not leaking anything that I can tell...

 

[AuSeeker]

It does look like a plug for something, very possible they dropped it and just replaced it with another. I'm not leaking anything that I can tell...

I would say it's defintely the oil drain plug and as mentioned probably slipped out of the tech's hand and he couldn't find it and replace it with a new plug.

If you were leaking oil because the drain plug in not where it should be you would KNOW you had a leak and your engine would of stopped running shortly after you had your oil changed and never to run again!!!

 

[Ventil8]

It looks a plug of some sort. Funny(now) and scary(pissed off) story to tell. My wife took her 2006 Chevy Cobalt to the dealership for a routine oil change/tire rotation. They called her name in the waiting area, her car was ready, she paid, she drove off. Not less than a few blocks from the dealership, she gets a check engine light, oil pressure light. She pulls over, and calls the dealership and tells them she thinks they forgot to put oil in after the oil change. They send a tech and he puts oil in and they tow the car back to the dealership. The engine had already seized running with no oil. Long story short, they replace the engine with a refurbished engine with 60,000 miles(wife had 120,000 miles on old engine), and as a courtesy they fixed her drivers side window which wasn't working. Before anyone states that they would have demanded a new engine, or money for time lost, the laws are written for corporations, it would have been a waste of money and time to pursue this any further with attorneys. It took them almost a month to find an engine and replace it. That was a year ago and her car runs like new now, well almost

 

[meltdowner]

I would say it's defintely the oil drain plug and as mentioned probably slipped out of the tech's hand and he couldn't find it and replace it with a new plug.

If you were leaking oil because the drain plug in not where it should be you would KNOW you had a leak and your engine would of stopped running shortly after you had your oil changed and never to run again!!!

Scaring me.

 

[meltdowner]

It looks a plug of some sort. Funny(now) and scary(pissed off) story to tell. My wife took her 2006 Chevy Cobalt to the dealership for a routine oil change/tire rotation. They called her name in the waiting area, her car was ready, she paid, she drove off. Not less than a few blocks from the dealership, she gets a check engine light, oil pressure light. She pulls over, and calls the dealership and tells them she thinks they forgot to put oil in after the oil change. They send a tech and he puts oil in and they tow the car back to the dealership. The engine had already seized running with no oil. Long story short, they replace the engine with a refurbished engine with 60,000 miles(wife had 120,000 miles on old engine), and as a courtesy they fixed her drivers side window which wasn't working. Before anyone states that they would have demanded a new engine, or money for time lost, the laws are written for corporations, it would have been a waste of money and time to pursue this any further with attorneys. It took them almost a month to find an engine and replace it. That was a year ago and her car runs like new now, well almost

I feel like that is a win tbh.