Hello everyone...Can someone ID part # 979662. It's a rubber grommet, but to what? I found it in my driveway after my wife went driving around in the snow. I don't have a photo of it, but its about 1 inch in diameter, black & has a small hole in the center. Any help is always appreciated.
Thanks!

 

VADIS says that is a seal plug for the body of the car.

Plug look like #4?


Plug locations:

 

Thanks for the fast reply.... I guess I'll start looking once I can get the car up & take a look under.... Just one more question... what purpose does this part have? Since it has a hole in the center it's not going to prevent water from entering... please enlighten me...

Thanks!

 

Item #4 in the diagram does not look like the plug I have even though the numbers match. I quickly took 2 photos of the plug but the file upload keeps giving me an upload error.

 

#4 has seven different part numbers. so it might look different than the one in the picture. It is probably a drain plug.
maybe tech has a better Idea what it is.

As for the pics. it is easy to upload to photobucket, and insert the image that way

 

Here are 3 photos of the part in question....

 

Talk about coincidence... I, too, was backing out of the garage - through a large mound of snow which fell from my garage roof - and when I stopped to close the door, I found the same grommet (P/N 979662 65) on top of the flattened snow... d'uh! Thought it might be a bushing from the exhaust but your photo and information on this part corrected that notion.

Thanks a bunch - now I will await my next trip to the dealer (300km away) to see if the tech can locate the hole with a missing grommet... and not be overly concerned.

cheers!

 

I found one in the driveway also. The next time I put the car up on jacks I found the hole in the body it went in. It was a hole near the foot well on one of the lowest parts of the car. No wonder they get scraped out so easy.

 

I was walking down to get the mail this morning and found the same one in our drive, after my wife left for work; but our car is a 2005 ford focus. Cannot believe I am not the only one to find the very same item in the drive! I was really worried something serious was wrong with the car.

Chalmers from White Hall, Arkansas

 

I found one in my driveway, too, off my S60. It scrapes if I don't pull out at the correct. So, if I see where it scrapes, I probably know where it goes, and when I'm likely to find it in my driveway again!