Does anyone know whats under the battery tray ?

As I've been a bit of a bone head and dropped a 10mm socket down there when doing up the battery terminals.

It sounded like a pinball machine and could now be gone forever !!

I can't see it from above, and don't really fancy taking all the battery out just to get it.........

Cheers
Mark 2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

Have you looked on the driveway it might have fallen all the way down. V8 or else ...

Get one of the magnetic pick up tools

I saw loads of those tools at the Billing show just over a week ago..........nearly bought one !!

I'm not sure there is an "all the way down" from under the battery.

Will double check..........

Thanks 2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

Fuel burning heater below battery.
The socket could drop thro but there is a lot of metalwork in the way.
Easier just to buy another socket for now.

Undo the two 13mm nuts and remove the centre panel... Give you more viewing access!


Craig

Be careful.
I decided to remove the battery tray. I undid the bolts and gave it a good pull to get it out. As sais before underneath is the FBH. But it has a bobbin mount under the battery tray which looks like it is assembled from the top down. I ended up removing the stud for the bobbin and putting a bolt in that I had to feed through the hole in the battery tray I drilled. As they say curiousity killed the cat.

Adrian VW Amarok 2014 Highline auto

mmmm - 'a good pull' and the BFH are good methods in auto repair, but they must be used quite judiciously...
 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

I did the same thing with a short 10mm spanner. Couldn't see it from above so thought about leaving it but if it did happen to drop out it could go through a tyre. A socket is not likely to do this even if it was run over at high speed. Your call that.

But, I ended up removing the wheel arch liner to get it out. Took about 30 mins including removing the wheel.

I love your sig, Dom!

 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

I lost a 10mm socket when working on my Peugeot 405 Diesel late last century.
I found it a week later while dismantling the gearbox. It had dropped down the timing hole in the top of the bellhousing and was fine for a week till several hundred kilometres later it got picked up by the flywheel and was fired into the diff forcing the spider gear shaft out the side of the diff. The socket wasn't that badly damaged but was unusable. I had the gearbox and diff welded up flushed the internals multiple times and stuck it all together. It ran fine till the next owner wrote it off.

Adrian VW Amarok 2014 Highline auto

SteveMFr wrote:

I love your sig, Dom!

Mark, dare I say there's a 10mm socket under your battery tray - unhelpful, not funny, but hey ho it's a bank holiday weekend in the rain  Geoff