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Old 09-09-2012, 09:46 PM
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Default A part fell off my car today

I was pulling into the driveway in my wife's 2 when I noticed a part hanging off the bottom of my 2011 3 HB.

I got under there to check it out and found that it's a piece of plastic about a foot long and about 1.5 inches tall. It is slightly in front of my rear wheels and runs across the bottom of the car. There's two; one on the left right, one on the right. They are held on by two white plastic nuts. The one that was hanging off was on the right side. It was missing one of the cheap plastic nuts.

I'm struggling to figure out what it's purpose is. It wasn't covering anything, and the part number on it seems unrecognizable to my usual parts people. The number written on it is BP4K 56 58X. There's also an RH below that. Anyone have an idea what this part is?
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Old 09-09-2012, 09:48 PM
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Can you take a picture of it?
Not at the moment, but I will when I can.
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Its the wind diffuser it happens to everyone's car your fine.
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Its the wind diffuser it happens to everyone's car your fine.
I guess the 4000 miles I drove in the past two weeks at 80mph finally did it in.
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Yeah mine fell off the first week I got my car. It really has no purpose even though Mazda says it does.
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Yea one of the nuts came off on mine. Started hitting the bottom of the car. The dealer replaced the nut and all is well. Don't know how it came off though haha

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it's a useless piece of plastic honestly. They are junk and not even worth the time to put them back on. The nuts fall off beause they are made out of cheap plastic and highway winds have a stronger force then them holding on.

I know exactly what your talking about man, it isn't even worth jacking the car up to put them back on
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I can get to them fine without jacking up the car haha

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it's a useless piece of plastic honestly. They are junk and not even worth the time to put them back on. The nuts fall off beause they are made out of cheap plastic and highway winds have a stronger force then them holding on.

I know exactly what your talking about man, it isn't even worth jacking the car up to put them back on
And you've done the wind tunnel research to prove this, correct? Please post your data of your wind tunnel research.
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