Does anyone know what the thing in the picture is for. When I bought the car it was in the glove box, just wondering WTF it would be used for.

 

It holds your floormat on the driverside in place.

 

Next service, take it to the dealer and ask him to finish the 'pre-delivery'.

It's right in the checklist .

S

 

OMG, I've had the car since Jan. this year and everytime I get in the car I have to screw with that darn mat and this is the solution thats been there the whole time ?!

 

Doh..........

 

ha ha guys trust me when I say.... I have been whining my *** when I drive to be pulling the mat back every minuite....ha ha.. I have not seen that device though.. Hmm when my car got out the shop I am def going to look for that .... I am tired with the circus thing on the road..lol

 

LOL, it took me a few months later to find out too.... and the little slit in the visor and the red gauge display in the dimmer switch. And I swore I read somewhere that your rearview mirror was adjustable? But I've searched and I can't find it, I've read the manual and it's not there and I've played with the mirror and all I did was jack up my view.

 

Phweeee you make me feal better.. I am not alone in this anymore...lol.....I have soo omuch fun driveing the car... did not make time to fine tune stuf...

 

dazy--

I sure enjoy your avatars, never get old. Do you have the autodim mirror with HomeLink? I have no problem adjusting mine.

 

Ay least you had one in the glove box....I had to go back to the dealer to get one after my friend with an RX8 as well told me it was missing.

 

Man.. no wonder I can't find mine.. it isn't even there...
lamers..
i'll get it fixed monday with my recall appt..

 

It makes you wonder what else the Dealership missed on that checklist. I didn't have that thing on my car. I had mine installed a month after the purchase.

 

it's a pretty ugly part though... maybe i'll just get the kit and keep it somewhere...

 

When I bought the car I drove off the lot, made it a block and noticed NO FLOOR MATS, so I turned around and went back, my sales guy came over and asked waht was up...I told him I didnt get any floor mats....he said it doesnt come with any....I told him that I asked if the floormats in the test drive vehicle came with the car or were they an option and he said they came with the car. At that point he remebered what he said, and left....he came back with 2 floor mats, front driver/pass....no rear mats. I told him BS, your not gonna tell me that rear mats are optional, i know they sell them as a set of 4. So he went and got the back ones....and for the hassle I got a free trunk mat too.

Turns out later when I was talkign to the service guy, the took the mats out durring the dealer checklist and forgot to put them back in.

 

absolute waste of time that part btw, bcs the mat flips off it after 2secs and the mat slides forward as usual (although wit the grippy stuff they are much better than most)

 

yup. the bar that the mirror hangs on has pivot points at the mirror and at the windshield.


sounds like a personal problem
seriously though, the only time my mat has come off the tab is when i've taken the mats out to clean them.

 

What?! Mine is pretty sturdy. I even have a hard time taking it off when I'm cleaning my mats. There must be something wrong with your mat or your installation.

 

I've never had a problem with the mat moving on the drivers side, but I wish they'd install the same doomahickey on the passenger side. That mat is getting all kinds of messed up because it won't stay in place.

 

I actually modified my Pep Boys $25 floor mats to fit on this piece. Since mine came without the mats I went to Pep Boys and bought some mats then had a friend put a black metal grommet on the mat so that it would fit overtop the peg. It took all of 7 minutes to do. To this day it has never come off except when I remove it to vacuum.

 

You can even add the same part to the passenger side (about $3.50). I then added grommets to both the carpeted mats and the "All weather mats" on that side too.

 

Hun?
What slit?
I looked and saw none?
Are you talking about the little holes so we can see the stop light with the visor down?

 

No there's a small slit on the right hand side of the visor. Underneath the vanity mirror,on the side that the warning stickers is on. Just large enough for drivers license or business card.

 

or credit card for fillups on a trip!

 

this thread rocks! i've been wondering this entire time... there HAS to be something there to hold my damn sliding mat!

 

I've had my car for 3 days and those floor mats were already pissing me off. That bracket just solved that rattling noise from the glovebox AND my floormat problem. Thanks!