For the last 10K miles on my truck I been hearing this tickling sound coming from my truck bed when I rode with the windows open. I didn't think much about it until today I was unloading my quad and I heard it again. It was coming from the right rear tail light assembly. I quickly pulled the assembly apart and looked in side and found this part dangling from my steak pocket on the right rear on the inside!



Take a look and see if anyone knows what this is for. There is no way someone slipped this in the truck without taking off my rear lights and my tailgate stays locked with a tonnaue cover. The keys are there for perspective on size.

 

maybe something they use in the plant to hold something in place and forgot to take it out.? That is weird.

 

Could be from a disgruntled line employee. They love to leave crap like that to just cause trouble.

 

I bet it was some type of hanger used to lower the bed onto the frame.

What do I win?

 

Just curious, have you worked in a auto assembly plant?

 

A thumbs up for having a brain....makes absolute sense to me. An Warren plant workers know what that would be come on gotta be someone,Solve the problem of the week.

 

Yeah this one is a mystery. Just to check things out I removed the left taillight and looked in there for the same part. Didn't see anything that looked even close to this.

If it was something important it would have caused a problem by now. The noise was there for a while. I think you guys are right it was a tool used in the assembly process that was left behind.

 

I had a new Firebird once, and it had a rattle in the door. Dealer removed door panel and found a wire with some washers on it, along with a handwritten note "Congrats You found it"

 

A friend of mine used to work for Ford years ago. He told me many times those guys would get ticked off over some union bereavement and they would put wrenchs,scrap pieces of metal, and pop bottles inside the bodies between the inner and outer quarter panels in the rear. The only way to get them out was to cut a hole in the underside and remove them. I would say that ring hanging in the stake hole from the inside was a prank.

 

I agree it was a prank, My cousin had an older chevy and every time he would stop and take off you can here something clunk. He cut open a section of the quarter panel and found a coke bottle. What amazes me is that the car was close to 20 yrs old and must have driven the previous owners krazy.