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.
I just used the Lambo for an example, and what a fine one it is.
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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?


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?


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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. 

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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
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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.
idk, just my 2 cents. take it or leave it...just what i've heard on my own.
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Originally Posted by _Viper_
You can actually hide small cocain sacs in there 

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Originally Posted by diskreet
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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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?
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?
Originally Posted by ncirom2003
theres a whole little tiny world of leprauchans, unicorns and fairy monkeys behind that cover.
^^^^ 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
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
^^^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
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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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.
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.



