I changed the oil in my wife's new HHR yesterday for the very first time. As many of you may know the oil filter is unique in that you change it from the top of the engine bay and only change the fillament portion. The casing is permanent. Anyways you use at socket to unscrew the casing.

To cut to the chase, look at what I found on the casing:
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That thing stayed on it for 5k miles and it would have done some damage if it would have came off. And I never could have proved a thing.

It either happened at the factory or the dealership when they had to replace a cylinder head at 400 miles (another long story).

Thank you GM.

 

YIKES!

 

Those sockets cost between 10 and 20 bucks. I would be happy to get it for free

 

a helluva way to get free tools!

 

Wow, Good Thing You Found It!

 

You are not the first to find tools from assembly, but good find..

 

can you imagine the worker on the assembly line, at the end of his day, as he is putting away his tools, he goes to put his sockets away and...
uh-oh. then followed by

wonder if he even noticed his socket was missing at the end of the shift.

Or maybe the guy was like Brian Bosworth, The Boz" ye of Okalahoma Sooners & Seahawks fame who, during a summer job for Chevrolet, admitted in a Sports Illustrated article that he put loose nuts and bolts inside the frames of his cars during assembly, just so it would drive the new owner insane.
you could look it up.

Now you don't suppose this nice young man would do a thing like that would you?
Maybe he found a new job on the night shift at the Mexico assembly plant?

 

In a similar story my mother bought a new 75 cutlass supreme when i was a boy and when ever she turned in either direction there was a clanging sound so she took it to the dealers 3-4 times they could find nothing drove them all crazy and it seemed to come from the inside of the car so the dealer sent it to an interior shop and when they pulled the head liner they found 4 large ball bearings and a note stating (hope you had fun figureing this one out Ha Ha) bored employee ?? it was actually quit funny when you think about it!!

 

My dad used to work the line at the Hazelwood MO Ford plant and would tell me stories about them hiding stuff inside panel, etc. all the time!

 

GM had nothing to do with it.
That socket came from the mechanic at the dealership that repaired your engine. The cost of the socket was paid for out of his pay check. Don't ask me how I know.
Why not be a hero and return it to him.?