Weird stuff you see on cars...

[227bhp]

I saw these things hanging under the back of a 207cc:





They are like really soft mounts as they have rubber in them, you can twist them and they spring back, other than that they just dangle there...
I have no idea what they are for, some kind of chassis vibration damper? Something to do with the retractable hard top?

And the back pads looked like this:



Which is a bit weird too, why would you reduce the contact face like that? Stop squeal perhaps?

[brman]

I reckon you are right on both counts. Top are dampers to stop vibrations through the suspension (my mazda has them on the front), bottom I have never seen before but again, I suspect you are right.

[finlo]

Because it's a Peugeot!

[LarJammer]

stting Peugeot.

[227bhp]

I'd love to know the technology behind it. At the other end of the scale was the way they'd braced the chassis, it was simply two pieces of flat bar in a big X bolted on from one cill to the other!

[brman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper#Pr...

[AW10]

Brake pads like that are a cheap way to reduce rear brake bias.