Kareem of Elise

If you'll recall, this is what I shook out of my passenger side-mount intercooler.......a penny, two broken sheet metal screws and a piece of plastic hose barb.......

In my opinion, it's not likely all these things made it in there accidentally...but why would someone do it intentionally?

This car was in the shop EXTENSIVELY in the first year and a half of ownership including two turbo replacements.....could it be related?

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TTinCT

;-)

nah..sorry..had too...i would chaulk it up to someone with dirty pockets....

As long as it was prior to the throttle body...you should be fine..still does not explain it being there tho...

Audiboy

what killed your turbos? Other than the penny, those look like they went through a blender

Kareem of Elise

killed the first one............they didn't say.....the second one was defective....kept leaking coolant.

TTschwing

Take the money and Run!

sTTevo

Hose clamp screw? Plastic piece once fiit into turbo intake hose? I'd hold onto that lucky penny.

Squirt-Tortuga

The penny and barbed connector look like they probably fell in the (carelessly unplugged) intake hose when it was disconnected from the charge pipe, thus never came in contact with anything but the intercooler.

Audiboy

which is fortunately filtered by the IC before it get's into the engine.

But obviously this means that your MAF and airbox need to have been tampered with to let that stuff through.

Might not be a bad idea to check the inlet of the turbo for damage.

Kareem of Elise

The car was bone stock when all this happened.

ITALSKIER

wow..........