Totally non wedge related question....
Totally non wedge related question....
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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

83 months

Saturday 29th July 2006
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Ok, I was following a car today and it had a long/thin piece of rubber/plastic on the back of the car that brushes the floor as the car is moving. Years ago I use to see this on loads of cars and always wondered what it was for?

(By the way the wedge is running great at the moment and loving every minute )

tallbloke

10,376 posts

312 months

Saturday 29th July 2006
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It's there so taxi drivers don't have to stop their cars and kneel in the direction of Mekkah every six hours.

wedge girl

4,688 posts

268 months

Saturday 29th July 2006
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It's to conduct the static back to the ground, no proof that it actually works though.

J.B.R.

108 posts

244 months

Saturday 29th July 2006
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There was a belief that it stopped travel sickness by conducting the static electricity back to ground. Never tried them though.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

83 months

Saturday 29th July 2006
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Probably explains why the guy driving it looked about 80. It was on a 52 plate car as well!

gwood

203 posts

242 months

Saturday 29th July 2006
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it was probally a honda and he would have been wearing a flat cap and leather driving gloves!