I've never seen that before, and you ?

[Snoopy1974]

Hi,

today I went to a new scrapyard near my home, there were 2 poors R4.

One has something that I've never seen before:



Does anybody know what are these strange things

 

[iMacThere4iAm]

I would say they look like grounding straps, to ensure a good electrical connection between the body and doors, but I don't understand why they would be fitted because the doors contain no electricals.

 

[reidalpine]

here's a guy who wears both belt And suspenders, if the original rubber-strap fails the webbed strap should hold the doors right .....

 

[jeffr4]

The blue colour tells it all, I have those grounding straps in my blue gendarmerie ( france police) R4 too. I donot know for sure, but I would say, because of the police communication-installation that time, it had to prevent static electricty.

 

[John Doe]

They don't seem to be self fitted. jeffr4 has solved this mistery.

 

[roy the potter]

Yes i've got them on my ex gendarme, so that's what they are for!!

 

[Snoopy1974]

Oh yes, thank you for your replies, I also saw on this car a big antenna at the middle of the roof, gendarmerie of course

 

[Rutger-peer]

Them R4's seem to be abundant on French scrapyards! Maybe take one home once .

 

[Snoopy1974]

Unfortunatly the R4 I find in scrapyards are impossible to buy, only spare parts can be used

In another hand I'm lucky to live in a very rural county where I can find sometimes very interesting -or sad- things... see my new thread:
http://www.renault4.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5184