# Little Black Cones

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/little-black-cones/75118>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** corolla, toyota\
**Created:** [October 23, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/little-black-cones/75118 "2012-10-23T03:58:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Terrible\_Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@Terrible\_Terry](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Terrible_Terry)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/little-black-cones/75118/1 "2012-10-23T03:58:49Z")

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Whenever I Vacuum my 1996 Toyota Corolla, I find near my gas pedal a bunch of  
tiny black plastic cones about 3/8" long and about 1/8" at the base. What the heck are  
these things. My friend Jim thanks I might be losing my steering box?

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**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/little-black-cones/75118/2 "2012-10-23T04:27:23Z")

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Is it the little grippies on the back of your floor mats? If so I will forward my address for prize money. ( :

This is not off topic, little black cones could be the protrusions on the bottom of floor mats that have broken off and lay in the floor until vacuumed up.

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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/little-black-cones/75118/3 "2012-10-23T04:30:53Z")

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“Is it the little grippies on the back of your floor mats?”

This is what happens just before the accelerator pedal gets stuck to the floor mat…

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**Author:** ![Terrible\_Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@Terrible\_Terry](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Terrible_Terry)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/little-black-cones/75118/4 "2012-10-23T19:49:35Z")

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Thanks for the response to my liitle black cones. Low and behold when I looked  
at the bottom of my floor mat the little black nubbies were all missing in the middle.  
So problem solved. Thanks again. Terrible Terry

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/little-black-cones/75118/5 "2012-10-23T19:57:36Z")

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A tip of the hat to meaneyedcatz.

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**Author:** ![doubleclutch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/doubleclutch/32/1281_2.png) [@doubleclutch](https://community.cartalk.com/u/doubleclutch)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/little-black-cones/75118/6 "2012-10-24T06:37:28Z")

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Wow! I’d have never guessed that one!