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I learned to drive and got my license in my thirties due to growing up in an abusive situation where I didn’t learn a lot of the things normal teenagers learn, and I have anxiety, so please be patient with me if you can, this is all brand new. I just bought a 2012 Nissan Versa S with the stimulus check, first car I’ve ever had, and I’ve had it less than 48 hours. So of course I ran over a brick or something equally bad to run over on a narrow street and a piece of the car just fell off. It’s the plastic thing that goes on the bottom of the wheel well just over the tire. I don’t know what it’s called. It’s a wheel well-shaped piece of plastic and it came off almost entirely in one piece but I can see a bit more ragged plastic on the car. I didn’t know what to do so I put the whole big piece into my trunk and finished my errands and drove home. The car drives perfectly and nothing else is wrong with it after the piece fell off. I looked under the wheel well and I can see important-looking machinery but nothing else seems to be scratched or broken. What is that piece called and is it an emergency? Do I need to fix it right away and what do I do?
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Can you identify which part it is from this?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NISSAN-OEM-Fender-Liner-Splash-Shield-Screw-0145100841-/253337600809It might be one and six, I’ll have to go to the trunk and look. But no screws came off, just the plastic. And it’s a dry day today and I was only going to go run errands on main roads, no dirt roads or anything. As far as I know by googling it it’s not an emergency but could wear down something inside the car if you drove on dirt roads or in mud, but for all I know that’s not true. I was hoping to put off fixing it until after I get paid because I spent everything on getting the car in the first place. Is it okay to drive like that for a couple days?
It looks just exactly like this!
https://www.carparts.com/details/Nissan/Versa/Replacement/2015-2018/REPN222157.html?TID=gglpla&origin=&utm_source=google&utm_medium=pla&utm_campaign=11728992700&gclid=CjwKCAjwgOGCBhAlEiwA7FUXkrYKoHhq8aPdDNAuGjxUw0Q348zzLEQy32pTbPALpYvWARk0Pj7z_xoCtCMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.dsThat’s the inner fender liner.
As long as you avoid rocks and pebbles you should be fine.
The liner protects from debris being kicked up from the tire and hitting the actual inner metal of the fender and any components that may be attached to it.
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