What is this part?

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texadelphia

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I had my skid plates off today and I found this sitting on my front skid plate. It's a little over 1" square and says "N018" at the bottom. Any ideas what it is?

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<s>I believe that's part of the system that fastens the lower valence of the front bumper to the upper metal portion. Look where the lower valance bolts on to the upper part and you should see that there are 5 or six screws going through into the metal portion. Those screws go through the part pictured.</s>

edit: I was thinking of part 90179-06127, which this is not...
 
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texadelphia said:
It's not the brake line retainer clip. Similar shape but the retainer clips are thin and flexible. This is thick and rigid. Plus I just checked and both of my retainer clips are in place. :thumb:
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Oh my bad I missed the 1/8in thick part. Welp that's all I got, that's the only thing I've ever seen that's the same shape :wacko:
 
texadelphia said:
Well done sir! I just had an alignment done last week so it doesn't give me warm fuzzies that it was just chillin in my skid plate.
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Well, those aren't used on a 4Runner... they are for old-school muscle cars and similar. So at least YOUR truck isn't missing anything...

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Yeah, just called the shop and confirmed. He said the 4runners don't use shims and also said that body shops sometimes use them as body shims. I had body work done like 2 years ago so maybe it fell out of a fender or something.
 
Good grief.... now I be wondering what it fell out of.. If you had a fender changed very possible. :)

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texadelphia said:
Yeah, just called the shop and confirmed. He said the 4runners don't use shims and also said that body shops sometimes use them as body shims. I had body work done like 2 years ago so maybe it fell out of a fender or something.
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I'm late to the party, but this is likely the case. Probably no big deal as long as all your stuff is still lined up.
 
I'm going to check the panel gaps in the morning to see if anything looks off. The front fender and passenger door were replaced after the accident. There weren't any obvious places I could see where it would have come from without taking the fender liner out but I'm not sure where all the fastener locations are.
 
It's possible they just dropped it and didn't bother to find it. Hence why it was left there too.. :)

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brillo_76 said:
It's possible they just dropped it and didn't bother to find it. Hence why it was left there too.. :)

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Well I had the skid plates off 8 months ago and it wasn't there. It's been to 2 or 3 alignment shops since then but hasn't had any other work done aside from oil changes and tire rotations.

For it to have come from the fender and land in the skid plate, I'd think it would have had to have been under one of the bolts that runs along the top of the fender but there aren't any gaps there. It's a mystery for sure!
 
texadelphia said:
Well I had the skid plates off 8 months ago and it wasn't there. It's been to 2 or 3 alignment shops since then but hasn't had any other work done aside from oil changes and tire rotations.



For it to have come from the fender and land in the skid plate, I'd think it would have had to have been under one of the bolts that runs along the top of the fender but there aren't any gaps there. It's a mystery for sure!
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Ah. In that case, it come loose and odd something..:)

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