^^This is the parts page you can find it on^^
What is this weird stopper thing in the floor?
Working on fixing a hole in the floor, beneath my glove box. The piece I am repairing has a roughly 2 inch intentional hole that was plugged up by a piece of black plastic with a stiff white gasket around it, which I will refer to as simply "the stopper" until someone can give me a more accurate name for it.
The gasket on the stopper is quite warped now, and I expect I will not be able to reuse it. I tried digging through diagrams on Honda parts websites, but can't find anything that looks even vaguely like a match for the stopper or its gasket. Assuming this is actually an Accord/Crosstour part, what is the purpose of this hole and the stopper, and what is the name and part number to replace it?
This same spot in the floor has clearly been patched up before. So I could certainly imagine the patch came from some entirely different car model, and just brought this stopper along with it. So, "that's definitely not from a Crosstour" would certainly still be a helpful answer. In that case, I can just patch over where the stopper was, and move on without worry. (Though I would still be curious about what's its purpose is, if anyone can guess where the patch came from.)
Images show:
1. The hole in the floor and the passenger door speaker for perspective, with the stopper (hard to see) sitting where it would be installed.
2. Close-up of the stopper sitting where it would be installed. (I might have the stopper facing backward? I removed it in the dark while quickly hammering the damaged floor down enough to at least cover the hole with the carpet.)
3. The hole the stopper would fill, with the stopper removed.
4. The opposite side of the stopper.
The gasket on the stopper is quite warped now, and I expect I will not be able to reuse it. I tried digging through diagrams on Honda parts websites, but can't find anything that looks even vaguely like a match for the stopper or its gasket. Assuming this is actually an Accord/Crosstour part, what is the purpose of this hole and the stopper, and what is the name and part number to replace it?
This same spot in the floor has clearly been patched up before. So I could certainly imagine the patch came from some entirely different car model, and just brought this stopper along with it. So, "that's definitely not from a Crosstour" would certainly still be a helpful answer. In that case, I can just patch over where the stopper was, and move on without worry. (Though I would still be curious about what's its purpose is, if anyone can guess where the patch came from.)
Images show:
1. The hole in the floor and the passenger door speaker for perspective, with the stopper (hard to see) sitting where it would be installed.
2. Close-up of the stopper sitting where it would be installed. (I might have the stopper facing backward? I removed it in the dark while quickly hammering the damaged floor down enough to at least cover the hole with the carpet.)
3. The hole the stopper would fill, with the stopper removed.
4. The opposite side of the stopper.
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Were you using the pinch weld areas across the frame? Cause if I wanted all 4 corners up at the same time for whatever reason this is the procedure I'd use: use a jack on the front area I highlighted in red and put jackstands on the pinch welded section up front that I marked in blue, if you're on uneven/soft ground put a decently thick sheet of wood down below the jackstands. Then once the front stands are set up move to the back and lift on the rear subframe in red again (you dont have 4wd but there should still be something right behind the tire carrier), and then put jackstands on the rear part of the pinch weld in blue again
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I looked at the parts pages for 2wd vs 4wd crosstours and while they have different part numbers they're basically the same. Both were used for all 5 years for i4/v6 2wd and v6 4wd, this is a 2010 2wd, but that rear subframe is what yours will look like: identical to the 4wd, just unused rear diff mounts so putting a jack there wont be an issue.
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Here's mine from that point when I tested out my new jack. This is actually how I had it set up when I did the sway bar, just not as high.
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Here's mine from that point when I tested out my new jack. This is actually how I had it set up when I did the sway bar, just not as high.
Having trouble squaring up your picture with reality of the underside of my car. What spot(s) would you feel comfortable lifting from here?
Yellow: Front edge of the spare tire rack (for reference).
Blue: Pretty sure I can reach here fairly cleanly from behind the left tire, by carefully aligning parallel to the exhaust pipe that would otherwise be in the way (the same way the blue arrow is pointing). But the stability looks a bit questionable without knowing more about how it's built and connected. When you talk about the bad idea of lifting "from the rear differential", are you referring to this stretch of steel?
Green: I can get here either from the back or behind the left tire. There's no space to properly lift the jack's lever to pump it. But if I'm willing to spend a while doing a ton of micropumps to get it off the ground, I think it should be manageable.
Purple: Unbearably curious wtf is this seemingly random bit of steel shaped like a hose nozzle supposed to be for.
Yellow: Front edge of the spare tire rack (for reference).
Blue: Pretty sure I can reach here fairly cleanly from behind the left tire, by carefully aligning parallel to the exhaust pipe that would otherwise be in the way (the same way the blue arrow is pointing). But the stability looks a bit questionable without knowing more about how it's built and connected. When you talk about the bad idea of lifting "from the rear differential", are you referring to this stretch of steel?
Green: I can get here either from the back or behind the left tire. There's no space to properly lift the jack's lever to pump it. But if I'm willing to spend a while doing a ton of micropumps to get it off the ground, I think it should be manageable.
Purple: Unbearably curious wtf is this seemingly random bit of steel shaped like a hose nozzle supposed to be for.
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I didn't notice that your crosstour is an i4 FWD, So the back is very different from mine. I honestly would not lift the car from either of your two points shown (Blue Or Green), but being it looks like a rear subframe, it's likely strong enough to handle it. To get it high enough to go on a jack stand, I wouldn't trust it to be stable enough. I find center jacking sketchy even if it's done on a jack point, but maybe my skinny jack just sucks too, who knows. The back of mine is very different as ifs a 4WD model, if I had no choice but to lift it from the back due to some major problem, I would probably lift it by the Rear differential, though I'd still need to talk to other people about that to determine if it would damage the vehicle in any way. It's stupid that they didn't stick on some kind of rear jack point/tow loop like the accords have.
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