Long story short, car is in for service and they found a what they thought was a charging cable tangled in the Aux belt. Cable has been removed and new aux belt is being fitted. This is what the technician thinks is the handle, anyone got any idea what it is? Nothing I’ve fitted, I have a CTEK connector that is on top of the battery and deffo not that.

It’s the car’s first extended scope service (6 years & 27k miles) so might be the first time anyone’s looked in the aux belt area, ever.

Thoughts oh wise ones?

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Ask for it back with the car and take some better pictures. It could be anything - I once found a really nice Snap On inspection light under the bonnet of a courtesy car when topping up the screen wash with the hosepipe. I did, of course, return it.

The bits are in the car waiting for me getting it back. 👍

I’m just curious how anything could get in there as it’s pretty well shielded. I could have ran over some debris on the road and it flicked up, again it had to get in there.

I’m thinking along the lines of a charging cable from when the car was stored for 9 months before we bought it. But I could be wrong, it has been known. Allegedly! 🤣

look for some numbers on that part..

Will have a look when I pick her up, either today or tomorrow. Pics/screen grabs above are pretty rubbish but will do better when I have the real thing in my hands.

Well mystery solved, more like two mysteries! It’s the crocodile clip charger attachment for my CTEK chargers. Must have knocked it into the aux belt area or left it under the bonnet and it’s found its way there. As soon as I saw the adaptor it was a “So that’s where it went!!” moment, been looking for it for a while as it was on the missing list. Aux belt was show a bit of wear but nothing dramatic, but new one now in place.

Thanks for everyone’s help. 👍👍