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10 mm sockets or spanners are particularly elusive.

I think most of my vehicles have either a 10mm socket or spanner somewhere on/in them .. somewhere ...
Coz they sure ain't in my toolbox.

You would be amazed at the amount of tools left behind from factory workers. The roof of a tractor cab is a popular spot- so far I have found a screw driver, a pair of pliers and a gasket scraper. The best one was a 1/2” drive socket in the diff housing.

My son's Evo VIII has a 12mm ratcheting ring spanner down the back of the engine somewhere.

I looked for hours from above, beside and from below and damned if I can find it.

It doesn't rattle and to our knowledge hasn't fallen out on the driveway so where is it?

I purchased a new one but I do like my old one more.

Engine bays, the new Black Hole of the Universe

Zuffen wrote: My son's Evo VIII has a 12mm ratcheting ring spanner down the back of the engine somewhere.

I looked for hours from above, beside and from below and damned if I can find it.

It doesn't rattle and to our knowledge hasn't fallen out on the driveway so where is it?

I purchased a new one but I do like my old one more.

It hasn’t fallen inside an exhaust heat shield? Small tools usually jam in there pretty tight.

Missing Tools

Eddie You must use different spanners to me.......My loss is always 1/2 9/16th either ring or open ended!!!!

steveb wrote: Eddie You must use different spanners to me.......My loss is always 1/2 9/16th either ring or open ended!!!!

Different cars ... ricers. Several Dattos and a couple Mazdas ...

My friend Mac Bedwell (RIP) told the story that when he was a teenager he received a belting from his Father for loosing Father's best pair of pliers. Mac insisted that he had not touched them.

Many years later, after Mac's father had passed away, Mac had to climb on to the roof of the family home to repair a TV antenna and found his Father's pliers behind the chimney! Mac had never been on the roof before but his Father had!

Maybe the reason that tools roll away from you is that they are related to bread. Bread always falls with the buttered side down on to the carpet!

I have a story about bread falling but it may not be politically correct if you are Irish, as my Father was. If you want to see it, say so.

I picked up a truck at Volvo s workshop after service,and stuck in the chassis behind the crane U bolts was a giant Bahco 36" shifter.And ,no ,they didnt get it back.,I still have it.