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Old Dec 21, 2005
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Question What are these "tabs" for on some cars?

I've seen alot of these tabs on the front and sometimes rear bumbers of many different cars. But does anyone know what they are for?






I just used the Lambo for an example, and what a fine one it is.
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Old Dec 21, 2005
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Cover for the tow hooks
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It hides the hole to where you mount the tow Loop....



See?

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i know on some caddys, etc on the rear bumper their for the old people who dont know how to back up. it sends a signal and makes a noise inside the car to alert you your to close to something.
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Damn so some tow truck driver is going to put a flathead screwdriver to your lambo to pop it off when he tows it?
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Originally Posted by WildRice
Damn so some tow truck driver is going to put a flathead screwdriver to your lambo to pop it off when he tows it?
Yup.
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lol, sweet i didn't know what they were for. I was like "Why the F would they make it like that?"
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Originally Posted by WildRice
Damn so some tow truck driver is going to put a flathead screwdriver to your lambo to pop it off when he tows it?
if they can afford the lambo they can afford the paint to repaint the bumper if they need to.
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Originally Posted by b00stinem2
if they can afford the lambo they can afford the paint to repaint the bumper if they need to.
you know thats funny how people always say stuff like that, like on the Mb forums one guy who was offrered an AMEX centurion (sp?) or the "black card" was asking if he would get free 1st class companion airline tickets. I mean if he's being offered that card why would he be worried about buying a second 1st class ticket
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Originally Posted by 2k2_civic_ex_4d
you know thats funny how people always say stuff like that, like on the Mb forums one guy who was offrered an AMEX centurion (sp?) or the "black card" was asking if he would get free 1st class companion airline tickets. I mean if he's being offered that card why would he be worried about buying a second 1st class ticket
people with money worry more about extra charges or what not than people without money. like for example. i work at a bank. if a customer who has $300,000 in saveings and another $120,000 in checkings and has CD's and stuff with us comes in he dosen't expect to pay the $3.00 fee for a cashiers check and gets upset if he does because he does so much business with us. But a person with $150 in the bank expects to pay the fee and usually don't complain.
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from my experience (at least on the BMWs and Mercs), those "tabs" are tow hook covers like others stated, and on the sides are jack-points to lift the car. the Euro cars tend to have jack-points on the side of the car rather than underneath like our Civics for example.

idk, just my 2 cents. take it or leave it...just what i've heard on my own.
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You can actually hide small cocain sacs in there
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Originally Posted by _Viper_
You can actually hide small cocain sacs in there
You know some idiot in a bmw is going to do that now. And it will work for like 2 weeks till a cop reads this thread lol.
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You know some idiot in a bmw is going to do that now. And it will work for like 2 weeks till a cop reads this thread lol.
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Hahaha, leave it to viper to come up with these things.
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I would have expected viper to be a lil more original and say something like hide astro-glide in there or something....sheesh way to let me down in the creativity department man.....


I also would like to know what the two little black nozzle looking things are for that are aimed at the headlights on some upper level cars and trucks...thats not to melt frost and sleet is it?
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I think it is for towing your car or something I dunno
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theres a whole little tiny world of leprauchans, unicorns and fairy monkeys behind that cover.
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Originally Posted by ncirom2003
theres a whole little tiny world of leprauchans, unicorns and fairy monkeys behind that cover.
dont forget the underpants gnomes as well. On my lambo, i had to get into an epic battle resulting in my glorious victory over these gnomes, they are now living in certain area dubbed "reservations" while in the remainder of the space, i imbezzle Columbian women's eggs into the united states to be deep fried into mcdonald chicken mcnuggets.
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oh jeesus...here we go again with the damn chicken McNuggets thing.....
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u know the mcflurry? yup, you guessed, columbian sperm.
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Booba5185 makes me laugh this much >>>>
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hey, that guy looks like my dealer for sperm....BACK UP OFF MY HOOK-UP!


and no, i dont extract the sperm, manually, my mom does.
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^^^^ bwahahahahaaha thats ****ed up lol
on my bugatti (i had them specially install that lil door because it adds 20 % increase) i opened the door one time by accident and a midget with one leg one tit and a mullet jumped out asking if ive seen her other mitten, come to find out the other mitten was clipped to the one on her hand. i later found out that this mitten controversy was the cause of my engine consuming too much oil, well that and mcdonalds gave my engine diarreha
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i think they r sensors to see how far away an object is
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^^^good except the last sentence to mcdonalds.

Now the tab on my old bimmer, i actually stored ***** of bob bobit, which loreana cut off, what is actually attached to bob now is in all actually gary colemans right arm. The good news for bob is that this arm was actually blessed my the pope himself, held "the cigar" from bill clinton and alos lowers bob's insurance rates by up to 23% because of this devine protection, so in the end bob had his ***** cut off and saved up to 38% on his car insurance if he converted to geico. Now what happened to this remians of a *****? well i sold the remains of the ***** to Seth macfarland, the creator of "Family Guy" where he took this *****, and some of the actual blended fish from duece bigalow and made a sub sandwitch out of it. Upon consumption of the fish-smelling-***** sandwitch, he was inspired and wrote the preview for passions of the christ 2 seen in episode 401 of family guy

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this isnt OT, lets keep the discussion on the right topic.
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ok ok ok, my bad, i will, but that is on one side of the car, when the tow truck pulls on it, what makes the car go straight? wouldn't it pull the passenger side more?
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ill be honest booba, i gave up reading ur last one lol im tired, maybe 2moro.
oh and people thats not a sensor if you can buy a lambo you better know how to drive one.
its for a tow hook, they wouldnt use it to tow it far, probably just for towing at tracks or pulling out of ditches when daddy lets little jimmy drive one and he cant control it.
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but then jimmy's just gonna say the snesor didn't work, and the second one is sooooo much better, remember to read it tomorrow
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