That's darn funny. When I saw the title of the thread, I thought, "well, the only thing I ever 'lost under the hood' was a 10mm socket". Then I read your post and that is what you lost also. Very wierd. About 15 years ago I was working on my Fiat Brava and I dropped a short 10mm socket. I spent over an hour that day looking for it and probed with a magnetic grabber and got real greasy reaching everywhere I could think of. Never found it. I even would look for it occasionally years later!! Never found it.

Mike

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1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
Previous stars: 1981 Brava 210,000 miles, 1978 128 150,000 miles, 1977 B200 Van 175,000 miles, 1972 Vega (great, if rusty, car), 1972 Celica, 1986.5 Supra