So I found something odd under a car - ideas?

So I found something odd under a car - ideas?

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405dogvan

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Friday 23rd September 2016
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I was helping someone change a starter on a Ford Galaxy (57 plate - TDCI) when I asked me what I thought this was.

I thought her was testing my amazingly limited mechanical knowledge - I had no idea, of course, and so but it transpires he had no idea either ;0



More pics here http://imgur.com/a/DNkSD

It's bolted to the shell crossmember behind the engine - NOTHING is connected to it, e.g. no power, hoses, pipes etc.

Made of steel - sounds hollow - 4 screws at the end open it but we didn't because things to do and homes to go to - but I'm still curious...

Ideas?

405dogvan

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5,328 posts

266 months

Saturday 24th September 2016
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Aha - I knew PH would come through!!!

Awesome stuff, fascinating to know - thanks!

p.s. ironically, my other job was working on an Insignia, once I was done I was clearing-up tools and I could hear a weird noise - I thought it was the radio but the closer I got to the bonnet of the Insignia, the louder it got.

As far as I could tell, the engine idling was making the 2 layers of the bonnet skin 'sing' - pretty annoying (bonnet had been painted, my guess is that sound deadening hadn't been refitting properly?)

Diesels eh...

Edited by 405dogvan on Saturday 24th September 13:03