Can anyone identify this?

[ChrisEdu]

I found this rattling around inside the RH air filter housing!
Does anybody know what it is?
My guess is it shouldn't be there the way it was!?

 

[W1ghty]

Might be for internal strengthening, check the left hand side for the other one ?

 

[ChrisEdu]

Might be for internal strengthening, check the left hand side for the other one ?

Couldn't see anything like it on the other side.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Looks like the part which holds the clip when attaching the airlifter cover.

 

[geoffus]

Looks almost home made, 2 inches wide and 4 inches long ?

 

[geoffus]

Is this your air filter, would it fit on here ?

 

[W1ghty]

I still think it looks the same shape as the air filter inlets

 

[ChrisEdu]

Looks like the part which holds the clip when attaching the airlifter cover.

I don't have clips like that, the boxes have bolts.

 

[ChrisEdu]

I still think it looks the same shape as the air filter inlets

It's a similar shape, ovoid, but not quite the same shape or size.

 

[ChrisEdu]

Is this your air filter, would it fit on here ?View attachment 105000

No, mine are on a OM642 V6 CDi engine.

 

[markjay]

Looks almost home made...

As above, plus the quality of the seam seems very poor, I don't think this is something that came with the car from the factory.

Perhaps some sort of clip from an after-market air filer? Either way it does not look like to me something that was supplied by MB.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Looks home-made to me, especially the weld.

 

[Jobsworth]

I've not noticed it before, but is there a stiffener inside the small rubber bellows on the batwing? Perhaps to stop it collapsing under vacuum.

 

[geoffus]

This one then ? it must be off some aftermarket filter previously fitted, last owner took it off in a hurry and left it there, looks cheaply made.

 

[ChrisEdu]

This one then ? it must be off some aftermarket filter previously fitted, last owner took it off in a hurry and left it there, looks cheaply made.

View attachment 105006

That's more like it (the filter box).
I'm pretty sure, I did the air filters last year, and didn't see it then.
I think I'll have another look in the batwings when I do the fuel filter and see if there's any sign of something missing, or fitted on the LH side.

 

[optimusprime]

May be it was pushed in there by some child in the past Not a mercedes part . Check it out on the parts list .

 

[Jobsworth]

I can see one inside here if you look in with a torch. Don’t know how its come out though. Stiffens the rubber bellows from sucking in I suspect.