This might be posted in the wrong section if it is I apologize.
I just want to know what the HELL is this??
I opened my hood to change motor oil and this thing is hanging on the underside.
One side is a magnet.
My car was in the bodyshop recently I think it is a tool of theirs?
Or is it something i randomly pickup on the road???
:?

 

That a small tool used to pick up screws. I have one. The shop must have dropped it in your engine bay and couldn't find it.

 

haha i used to see stuff like that all the time. Pop the hood to work on a custmers car and find a oil filter wrench from jiffy lube! bring it back they will love you for it.

 

it's got a magnet at the end. what txt said... magnetic...

 

Bring it back?!? It’s yours now, those things come in handy sometimes.

 

Duh, its the alien transmitter!

 

Those rock and are very handy.

 

hahaha man thats funny..

 

If your a gear-head you will love that thing. I hated having to poke around the engine looking for loose screws, washers, etc. Just pop this little thing in and it picks it all up for you.

 

OMG HAHAHAHA! Just a magnetic extension used to fish bolts and metal crap out of places you cannot reach. Man this made me laugh, good post!

 

oh my god - this thread is great!!! ha. I was waiting for the punchline but he didnt know what it was doing there.. ha. nice.

 

hey you should put that back. that thing adds like 20+ HP.. just make sure you install it and bend it the exact same way it came out... lol.. some lameass left a pickup tool in your car.. hopefully they go thte screw they dropped also

 

I found a 13mm wrench with one of those ratchet ends left in my Bazooka sub box

 

Darn it! I've been spotted!

 

hmm.. looks like a stick with magnet at the end...

 

alright LOL thats embarrassing
i thought it might be a tool but then i was thinking...WTH is it doing there!!??
man that if that thing f up something in my engine bay not too nice
its all bent out of shape too....

 

Heh. Nice find before it got tangled up with someting else. Keep it if you want it, but somebody at the shop is probably still trying to figure out where it went.

(All I ever got was an empty Guinness bottle built inside the passenger door of my MG.)

Tom

 

I know someone else was thinking about this becides me but by that picture it looks like that tool was used for more then one use - maybe im wrong. - maybe im right. Ive seen and used the tool before but never have seen one bent up like that. It first looked like a car antenna.

 

That style is made to get all bent up so you can angle it in whatever place you want.