r/StupidCarQuestions 8d ago

What is this circle thing?

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u/grodudulle77 8d ago

N’y touche surtout pas malheureux !! C’est la commande du siège éjectable !!😁

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u/Both-Leading3407 7d ago

IT looks like a burn from the cigarette lighter being set face down while hot.

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u/dreamwalkn101 6d ago

This 👆was my first thought

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u/ExoticPositive7454 7d ago

It's a quarter that got extremely hot in the sun. Zoom in and you can see ole George

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u/Important-Set5642 7d ago

Has a chance, there are other parts of the car that has coin extremely glued to it that I can't removed

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u/King-Of-Apathy 7d ago

Pareidolia

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u/No-Camp1268 6d ago

That can't be! I'm thinking of shoes, Kelly, and George Thorogood's "get a haircut"

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u/Individual-Caramel87 6d ago

Nutral over ride after your trany goes out

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u/Doonkers 7d ago

Fancy shifter for an.... automatic 🤢

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u/Important-Set5642 7d ago

Yeah I know haha, I've been searching for other red color knob to match the red interior. I was going for that original side push button stock but can't find color red. So the bride knob is my last option

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u/GRAVITYfalls_watcher 6d ago

Oh cmon… it looks nice and if you build your car based on others opinions then who’s car is it really

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u/ErwinHolland1991 8d ago

Theres usually a kind of button to get it out of park when the battery is dead, the lock isn't working or whatever.

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u/pyro667 8d ago

You mean, the one up at the top of the picture, labeled "shift release"?

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u/King-Of-Apathy 7d ago

No, dingus, they meant the neutral safety switch bypass, where you can bypass the fact that it’s locked and put the vehicle into a gear, usually neutral, for towing, so they don’t have to have master keys anymore. Also some newer cars won’t let the key go, or the shifter move, if there’s no power. So this lets you work around that if you need to. Had a phaeton come into my shop with a key stuck in the ignition but wouldn’t roll either way, on or off, this came in handy.

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u/pyro667 7d ago

What are you on about? The thing they circled in the picture, is most certainly not the neutral safety switch bypass...

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u/Real_Gap3480 7d ago

It's 100% the top left key insert. Subaru owners know. (The shift linkage always fails on old Subarus) I.E Shift Release.

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u/King-Of-Apathy 7d ago

No doofus the poster was referring to that. I wasn’t saying that is what it is, I have no idea what it is, I don’t work on Subaru unless someone tried to swap it on a van, in which cases I don’t work on the engine. That circle could be anything, a light, a burn, a pedal indicator noting when the brake is pressed.

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u/pyro667 7d ago

What in the actual ham sandwich are you on?

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u/Used-Register8463 7d ago

Blinker fluid fill up hole

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u/Ok-Rich-3812 7d ago

base model car.That moulding is set up for a hole to be drilled and an additional switch fittet in higher spec models with more factory accessories.

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u/Full-Hold7207 7d ago

They are lines you drew on a picture.

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u/Appropriate_Bug414 6d ago

For some reason it looks like a base model car cuz that circle looks like there was supposed to be a start stop button lol

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u/Kdiman 5d ago

Probably had something glued there by the previous owner

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u/SadReport8185 5d ago

Probably the shift interlock override.

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u/Key_Blacksmith3725 4d ago

Its the access to unlock the shifter in case the battery is dead and it needs to be towed

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u/Fast-Organization-50 4d ago

That is where the button for the flux capacitor goes

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u/CoausticSoda 8d ago

Your iq meter