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NotBanjaxo

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To be serious for a brief moment, it kind of looks like a broken bit of a CV (constant velocity) joint, only it's too small.

 

La Paix

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So I just took a scan of this fingerprint, entered it into the interpol website and it matched with an Oliver lown, main Road, kesgrave, Suffolk.
Consider yourself pipped!
Those deep fingerprints make it literally impossible to break my grip once I get a hold of you.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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A mid 2000s BMW was pulled off the road broken down this morning and as I drove by I felt something get caught in my tire. At first I thought it was a flat or something as I was going slow and could tell tire was off. I pulled over and with a set of pliers pulled this from deep in the treads. Lighter for scale is standard size.

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Looks like the inside race out of an axle shaft joint.
 

NotBanjaxo

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It really does look like a broken bit of CV joint cage:



I'm just surprised at how small it is.
 

Hauler

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Feb 3, 2016
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Hmmm...

...now I think about it, perhaps it would be that size? I kind of pictured the CV joint itself as beoing bigger and chunkier, but the bit pictured is an internal part, so perhaps not. I've never dismantled one.
The CV is inside a rubber boot. You don't see it unless you got issues.

Pretty good crash to smack one to pieces like that.
 

La Paix

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The CV is inside a rubber boot. You don't see it unless you got issues.

Pretty good crash to smack one to pieces like that.
It wasn’t a crash, the BMW was broken down and pulled off. Guy was looking under it when I drove by.
 

Hauler

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It wasn’t a crash, the BMW was broken down and pulled off. Guy was looking under it when I drove by.
Doesn't mean the part came from his car. Could have already been on the road and he was pulled over checking his hubcup fluid.