# Mystery Roaside Metal Strip

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-roaside-metal-strip/44200>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [February 10, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-roaside-metal-strip/44200 "2010-02-10T00:31:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ZACK44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@ZACK44](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ZACK44)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-roaside-metal-strip/44200/1 "2010-02-10T00:31:17Z")

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Any idea what this roadside metal strip is? Must be realated to cars or trucks.  
  
 Size: Spring steel 7 1/4" x 1/8" wide x 1/32" thick. Have found by curbs and gravel shoulders everywhere in U.S.

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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:** [February 10, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-roaside-metal-strip/44200/2 "2010-02-10T00:44:45Z")

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Shims. From gas pedal assemblies.

Just kidding.

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**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-roaside-metal-strip/44200/3 "2010-02-10T01:19:10Z")

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If it is what I think it is, it helps hold those tarps covering the load on open top trailers. I ended up with a new windscreen and grill after a power mower kicked one up off the berm and it hit my car.

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**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-roaside-metal-strip/44200/4 "2010-02-10T02:57:54Z")

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Do you mean “dunnage?”

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**Author:** ![vtcodger2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@vtcodger2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/vtcodger2)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-roaside-metal-strip/44200/5 "2010-02-10T03:23:48Z")

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Some windshield wiper replacement blades come with separable strips of spring steel about that width and thickness, but much longer. The old ones probably get discarded when new blades are installed, but I can’t think why they would be broken into 7 1/4 inch lengths.

That’s the only thing that comes to mind.