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fly2hip8 · 01-25-2016, 12:45 AM

My wife got a flat tire and found this in it. What is it? She has a 2009 Malibu. I know I've seen this part somewhere before on the suspension

DonM · 01-25-2016, 04:25 AM

It ALMOST looks like the top of a McPherson strut or shock, but the threaded section is too long. HOW did she get THAT in her tire? As big as it is, you'd have thought she would have just rolled over it.

fly2hip8 · 01-25-2016, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by DonM

It ALMOST looks like the top of a McPherson strut or shock, but the threaded section is too long. HOW did she get THAT in her tire? As big as it is, you'd have thought she would have just rolled over it.

I have no idea. I thought it looked like the top of a strut as well. I'm still at work but when I get off work I'm to look at it. She did say her car has been riding weird for a few weeks now. I'm thinking something broke off of her car and somehow went into the tire. Lucklily nothing happened other than a flat tire because she was on the highway and got a low tire pressure chime and she immediately pulled into the closest gas station.

I've been looking online for pictures, but with it being a Malibu not many suspension pictures unlike our cars.

I also had her measure it. It's about 3 3/4"

45thCamaro · 01-25-2016, 05:54 AM

It kind of looks like the bolt that holds the cats on the camaro. When I installed the HFCs you have to remove them to get them out of the car.

sbubbaklein · 01-25-2016, 10:43 AM

ridding weird? check around the sway bar

wickedpsi · 01-27-2016, 11:42 AM

that looks like it's from the alternator. check her alternator for a missing stud/bolt.

CFD · 01-27-2016, 11:53 AM

Looks like an exhaust manifold stud

sherob · 01-27-2016, 11:58 AM

It's a sign... she needs a Chevy Bolt to drive.

Jenner · 01-28-2016, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by sherob

It's a sign... she needs a Chevy Bolt to drive.

Haha nice!

Ventmaster · 01-28-2016, 03:11 PM

+1 on the exhaust manifold to the first exhaust pipe junction bolt. Looks like its off a truck. Probably that slow(?) leak causing the weird ride!

How big is the hole in the tire?

fly2hip8 · 01-30-2016, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ventmaster

+1 on the exhaust manifold to the first exhaust pipe junction bolt. Looks like its off a truck. Probably that slow(?) leak causing the weird ride!

How big is the hole in the tire?

I never seen the tire myself. She took it to a repair shop and they told her it was too big to patch. But, yea I don't think the bolt came from her car. probably someone in front of her.

FunkedOut · 01-31-2016, 02:22 AM

also looks like a snapped eccentric bolt from the rear lower control arms or front radius arms.
it would be riding really weird without one of those.

MountaineerTom · 01-31-2016, 02:31 AM

The top of the piston from another cars shock? Kinda looks like it has the flats on the end that you hold with a wrench while you tighten the nut.

Low Saturn · 02-01-2016, 12:48 PM

Looks like a stud with the nut still attached. It also looks like it may of been rolling around on the road for quite a while before your wife's tire picked it up judging by the worn off lower threads.

01-25-2016, 12:45 AM	#1
fly2hip8 Drives: 2013 Camaro 2SS Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Kansas Posts: 342	Weird item in wife's tire My wife got a flat tire and found this in it. What is it? She has a 2009 Malibu. I know I've seen this part somewhere before on the suspension Attached Images

01-25-2016, 04:25 AM	#2
DonM Camaro #4 Drives: 2017-Hyper Blue Metallic-2LTmanual Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: NE Ohio (Akron) Posts: 1,210	It ALMOST looks like the top of a McPherson strut or shock, but the threaded section is too long. HOW did she get THAT in her tire? As big as it is, you'd have thought she would have just rolled over it. __________________ Don M Supercharged LGX + 6 speed manual = FUN!!

01-25-2016, 10:43 AM	#5
sbubbaklein Drives: early 2011 Camaro convertible Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: House Springs, Mo Posts: 2,002 View My Garage	ridding weird? check around the sway bar __________________ Early 2011 LT Convertible, ZL1 bumper, hood, side skirts, belly pan and wheels, Truecarbon ECF hood extractor, K&N CAI, Elite catch can, Big Worm Bow Tie emblems, Jacfab bracket, Vitesse TC, BMR strut brace, BMR tunnel brace, NPP exhaust

01-27-2016, 11:58 AM	#8
sherob Drives: 2015 SW 1SS/RS 1LE Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Brighton, CO Posts: 2,736	It's a sign... she needs a Chevy Bolt to drive. __________________ “The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.” - Joey Ramone

02-01-2016, 12:48 PM	#14
Low Saturn Drives: 2011 Camaro 2SS/RS Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: San Jose, California Posts: 1,371	Looks like a stud with the nut still attached. It also looks like it may of been rolling around on the road for quite a while before your wife's tire picked it up judging by the worn off lower threads. __________________

01-25-2016, 05:54 AM	#4
45thCamaro Drives: 2012 Camaro 45th Anniversary RS Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: New York Posts: 2,418	It kind of looks like the bolt that holds the cats on the camaro. When I installed the HFCs you have to remove them to get them out of the car.

01-27-2016, 11:42 AM	#6
wickedpsi Drives: 2014 ZL1 Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Tustin, CA Posts: 237	that looks like it's from the alternator. check her alternator for a missing stud/bolt.

01-27-2016, 11:53 AM	#7
CFD Drives: 2SS/RS L99 BLACK Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Franklin , MA Posts: 6,696	Looks like an exhaust manifold stud

01-28-2016, 03:11 PM	#10
Ventmaster Drives: 2017 1SS 6spd Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Utah Posts: 2,869	+1 on the exhaust manifold to the first exhaust pipe junction bolt. Looks like its off a truck. Probably that slow(?) leak causing the weird ride! How big is the hole in the tire?

01-31-2016, 02:22 AM	#12
FunkedOut Drives: Black 2010 SS Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: FL Posts: 447 View My Garage	also looks like a snapped eccentric bolt from the rear lower control arms or front radius arms. it would be riding really weird without one of those.

01-31-2016, 02:31 AM	#13
MountaineerTom Drives: Summit White 2014 2LT Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: South Carolina Posts: 134	The top of the piston from another cars shock? Kinda looks like it has the flats on the end that you hold with a wrench while you tighten the nut.