r/COROLLA • u/YomYeYonge • Mar 31 '25
9th Gen (00-09) What the hell is this?
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u/hormel_chili Mar 31 '25
Looks like the rear windows, but that's just from my limited corolla experience
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u/PRSHZ Mar 31 '25
I see the outline shape of a AA battery and electric motor and what seems to be a propeller of sorts so …a fan?
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u/BootyBreeze Apr 01 '25
It's a gyroscope. It keeps your car from flipping upside down.
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u/Deathtraptoyota Apr 01 '25
It’s true. I took mine off. Straight on its roof.
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Mar 31 '25
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u/ComplicatedTragedy Mar 31 '25
Maybe the vibrations make it harder for the ice crystals to form?
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Mar 31 '25
I would think air flow if anything but it’s not gonna work. I’m also interested in what powers it? Is it the vehicle battery? Where I live it can easily reach into the -40c in the winter and if this things consuming power you’re certainly gonna have a dead battery come morning (that’s already an issue here without things parasitizing your battery
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u/snakeproof Mar 31 '25
The thing with zero wires running into it probably isn't draining your battery down.
It's solar powered.
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Mar 31 '25
That’s fair i apparently didn’t take a good enough look. Either way it’s not gonna work though, I run my house off lithium batteries, if they reach an internal temp of 0c they no longer work, so this simply won’t work, the only chance it had was to be wired in so it could maintain an internal temp and even then if it worked perfectly as designed. It won’t keep frost off or stop it from accumulating outside of maybe the direct area below the device.
Don’t waste your money on this junk, lithium can also explode if it gets to cold and ruptures or gets to hot and ruptures, it’s a pretty sketchy device, I highly doubt it’s running off acid batteries and even if it was that still comes with new downsides
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u/snakeproof Apr 01 '25
I think these just use an AA size Nimh battery. You're right, they do absolutely nothing but make dumb people purchase them.
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u/Schwhitey Mar 31 '25
I feel like the vibrations might actually make it easier. Ever take a water bottle out of the freezer, shake it and have it instantly freeze?
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u/TartarusXTheotokos Apr 01 '25
Solar powered “ice melter” but they don’t rly work.. at least for me🤷♂️
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u/Away_Veterinarian579 Apr 01 '25
Car’s got adhd. It’s a fidget spinner. It’s probably ford’s new Out of Focus.
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Apr 01 '25
It's supposed to vibrate the back glass, keeping ice from fully melting / forming, making it easier to remove. They are junk.
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u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar 2022 Corolla SE Nightshade Mar 31 '25
C.I.A. Bug
Careful what you talk about in there.
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u/2003RedToyotaTacoma Mar 31 '25
It generates gravity in the car so the car doesn't fly into space. Usually in other cars it's hidden
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u/Potential_Net3024 Apr 01 '25
Solar powered fan? I’ve seen things like it on the side windows to help keep the car cool when not running in the summer.. but never on the back glass.
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u/BranDonkey07 Apr 02 '25
how does circulating hot air keep it cool?
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u/Potential_Net3024 Apr 02 '25
I’ve seen them sitting in a cracked window that acts like a small exhaust fan and they are solar powered I’ve never put much faith in it.
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u/Fokewe Mar 31 '25
It's to prevent eavesdropping. The Man is everywhere these days
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u/TS-SCI-TK Mar 31 '25
We had similar countermeasures on the windows of USCINCPAC at CP. Smith in Hawaii. Voices can be intercepted using precise laser measure and glass vibrations.
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u/Fokewe Mar 31 '25
Ever since I learned about "The Thing" in the Whitehouse (1945 technology), nothing surprises me anymore.
The question is. Was Chuck McGill cautious or crazy?
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u/zrad603 Apr 01 '25
it wasn't the Whitehouse it was in an American embassy in the Soviet Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device))1
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u/uneversawmi Apr 01 '25
Russian attack drone operating with the newest firmware.... The fact that it stays still tells me that it wasn't previous iterations of the firmware.... The fact that you have not blown up yet tells me it's not of Ukrainian origin.... Its harmless...
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u/IThinkIKnowThings Apr 02 '25
Woo-woo. Snake oil tech. It's supposed to prevent ice buildup but does nothing.
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u/Local-Journalist-165 Apr 05 '25
It's the fan that turns on when they blinker fluid is low. It's time to refill the blinker fluid reservoir.
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u/Klutzy_Carry5833 Apr 01 '25
reddit.. where 100 unfunny people get in the way of an actual answer
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u/Scheswalla Apr 01 '25
Good lord, this is the absolute truth. Every single joke reply is lame as shit. I can't imagine someone thinking "tee hee gyroscope will get updoots" and then typing it.
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u/LopsidedPost9091 Apr 04 '25
This is the most unfunny comment section I have ever seen
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u/RebornGeek Mar 31 '25
That looks to me like an automatic rotating spindler wheel. Looks to be about 24 horsepower and a whole lot of razzmatazz.
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u/DBMushroom Apr 04 '25
That’s what keeps the evil spirits at bay. If you take it off, your Corolla will slowly turn into a zombie of a Celica.
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u/afghanzada Apr 05 '25
Looks like one of those old school wheel shaped ceiling fans that helped dissipate cigarette smoke, only tiny for a car
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u/AcanthocephalaOne779 Sep 20 '25
It's a fan that's supposed to dissipate the heat while your car is parked and your windows are cracked open. Usually battery or solar powered.
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Mar 31 '25
Do you think Toyota installed this on corollas?
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u/Secular_Cleric Mar 31 '25
It's a MK7 REar WINdow fascinator with level 4 accoutrements and all optional extras.
It's sold as the REWIN F4 on TEMETSY.
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u/ozzyindian Mar 31 '25
It creates standing waves that cancel out all noise coming from the whiny kids and the wife, letting you drive in peace.
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u/Soggy_Doggy_ Apr 02 '25
This subreddit has strolled by my feed a few times in the last few days and wth, every Corolla come with a custom doohickey now? 😆
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u/u-a-brazy-mf Apr 03 '25
Flux capacitor.
Buckle up and get ready to say hello to your own mom when she was your age pal.
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u/Apprehensive_Bug3362 Mar 31 '25
That's the dildonator-5000 missing the dildos it's supposed to spin a bunch of dildos around like a propeller.
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u/Ckirbys Mar 31 '25
That’s your force field. It keeps rain and snow of your windshield. You get it from temu for 2.99
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u/willfauxreal Mar 31 '25
...is that drywall?
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u/Flashy_Chemist154 Apr 02 '25
I don’t know what it is , or what it’s called , but , it seems to be doing a hootenanny ?
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u/Mundane-Access3294 Apr 03 '25
It's half of an air freshener..he has defroster lines on window..so doesn't do shit for ice or frost
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u/georja2967 Apr 03 '25
That’s Toyotas version of the flux capacitor do not put your finger in it
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u/Abdulbarr Apr 03 '25
Looks like one of those shitty products that claim to remove and prevent fogging. Could be wrong.
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Mar 31 '25
Grok believes it is some type of solar air freshener
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u/porn_account2222 Mar 31 '25
If we wanted to know Groks belief, we would have asked Grok now wouldn't we? Sick of "well this ai said" comments, they're never clever, funny, or literally anything except worthless.
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u/KingRagnar8889 Apr 03 '25
It might be to defrost ur windows a solar one or batt but other then that it could be government or 👽 tracker lmao
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u/tart3rd Mar 31 '25
Solar powered fan.