500 Crashed car

[Bonny Blue]

Hi,

I stupidly crashed my 2 day old new Fiat 500 up the curb and into a house wall yesterday, immediately i thought that there was only minor damage from scratches. However when i inspected the area in which i had gone into i found this metal rod. It is like lots of small metal wires entwined together with a solid flat metal bit at the end (see attached photo). I wondered if anyone could shed any light as to what this is? It may have come off my car or it may have already been there, any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

That is an engine dipstick, but doesn't look like any that Fiat use, so I suspect it was already in the road

 

[DBunX]

Can't really help with the first part as I think M.E.P has it covered, but I just want to say how sorry I am to hear that you have sustained damage so soon after getting the car.

I think I would cry if it happened to me. Mines a month and a half old and I still want to wrap it in cotton wool!

 

[bonkersbassist]

That's gotta be the dipstick with that Hatched area on the end you are holding.

Easy check: Open bonnet and see if yours is still there. I can't imagine it would have fallen out from a crash like that.

Shame about the car though

 

[dave]

the hatched area looks too big to be a dipstick, i think its a cable inner. maybe bike clutch cable

 

[gadge]

I belive Most Easterly Pandas is bob on in saying its a dipstick as it looks identical to the dipstick that's used in my Volvo FM9 lorry - it's about a meter long and has that very same metal gauge on the end and is basically a long thin cable with a plastic ring pull on the other end to pull it out although it seems to have been cut short somehow?

 

[dave]

I belive Most Easterly Pandas is bob on in saying its a dipstick as it looks identical to the dipstick that's used in my Volvo FM9 lorry - it's about a meter long and has that very same metal gauge on the end and is basically a long thin cable with a plastic ring pull on the other end to pull it out although it seems to have been cut short somehow?

is it still a litre between min an max on a lorry?

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

is it still a litre between min an max on a lorry?

I suspect not, although could be wrong, seeings as they tend to swallow about 20-30L in their sumps from what a mate who works for Volvo lorries told me

 

[gadge]

is it still a litre between min an max on a lorry?

No it's about 5 at least? I remember once checking it when I was filling up with fuel and it was just above the min so I bought a 5 litre tin of oil from the services and it barely made it past the halfway mark they like their oil :yum: