Jeep Employee Airheads wrapper discovered while installing Oracle back-up lights!

[Hogdreamer]

My son had seen how poorly the back-up camera worked in the dark on my JL so he was so kind to buy me a set of Oracle LED reverse lights for my birthday. Super easy install he told me, pop out the reflectors in the rear bumper and screw in the Oracle lights. He even purchased the kit with the Plug and Play harness for a quick electrical hook-up.

This was back in April of 2024 but what he didn't know was that yes, although it isn't a hard install, since I had the tow package the rear bumper needed to be removed to access the area where the reflectors need to be removed and the new lights installed. From what I've seen, it seems even with no tow package removing the bumper makes the process less painful.

I finally decided I better install the lights before the weather got cold here in Minnesota and the daylight hours got too short. The install wasn't too bad and I am very pleased how much brighter these lights are compared to the stock reverse lights located in the tail lights. I even joked with my son that I could now shine deer, in reverse!

My only shock was, when removing the passenger side tail light to hook up the Plug and Play electrical harness, I came across an Airheads candy wrapper placed in the tail light opening. This wrapper had to have been discarded during the initial assembly in Toledo. Is this classified as an Easter Egg?

Now I'm curious how many other unauthorized "Easter Eggs" are stuffed in various cavities on my Jeep. I'm pretty sure I'm also not the only owner who has come across such items left behind by assembly line employees.

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[John VonJeep]

 

[RandyP111]

My son had seen how poorly the back-up camera worked in the dark on my JL so he was so kind to buy me a set of Oracle LED reverse lights for my birthday. Super easy install he told me, pop out the reflectors in the rear bumper and screw in the Oracle lights. He even purchased the kit with the Plug and Play harness for a quick electrical hook-up.

This was back in April of 2024 but what he didn't know was that yes, although it isn't a hard install, since I had the tow package the rear bumper needed to be removed to access the area where the reflectors need to be removed and the new lights installed. From what I've seen, it seems even with no tow package removing the bumper makes the process less painful.

I finally decided I better install the lights before the weather got cold here in Minnesota and the daylight hours got too short. The install wasn't too bad and I am very pleased how much brighter these lights are compared to the stock reverse lights located in the tail lights. I even joked with my son that I could now shine deer, in reverse!

My only shock was, when removing the passenger side tail light to hook up the Plug and Play electrical harness, I came across an Airheads candy wrapper placed in the tail light opening. This wrapper had to have been discarded during the initial assembly in Toledo. Is this classified as an Easter Egg?

Now I'm curious how many other unauthorized "Easter Eggs" are stuffed in various cavities on my Jeep. I'm pretty sure I'm also not the only owner who has come across such items left behind by assembly line employees.

Did you dust it for fingerprints...DNA?

 

[8ball]

Must have been before the workers got their strike settlement….

 

[YBABRAT]

It happens in all sorts of ways with manufacturing and maintenance.

I had my hobby car gutted for a complete mod redo. It was manufactured in early 1971. Under the original carpet was a manufacturer's stock label for Sweet Sue soup. Unless they canned soup on the body line, I have no clue.


While helping with construction, many foundations have time capsules of beer cans dating back to being built.

We even have parts that come from a foundry with various artwork hand written in black marker. Stick figures and happy faces within the sequence numbers that are on the hidden back side when assembled They are painted over so only a faint image can be seen... if noticing when assembling.

Yes, our assembly lines at where I work, doesn't allow food, yet food wrappers are everywhere. Ha!

The last big surprise was that we found a prison shank made from a Mexican prison work program. They packaged stuff supposedly. It was a crude sharpened 14 awg wire stuck in a cut rectangular section of plastic. Very small but 4 inches all they needed to be able to conceal.

 

[RatZero]

Oh, I could tell you stories. There’s notices throughout my plant telling us not to sit in the vehicles during breaks, not to eat in the vehicles, sleep in them, etc. There are actual jobs to check for loose parts dropped inside and special tools to maneuver into tiny holes where a J clip fell so it doesn’t rattle.

But yeah, more than likely an assembler stuck that in there to be funny. It gets kind of mind numbing doing the same thing every 45 seconds, 400+ times a day. When I used to work under vehicles in Chassis, I had a marker pen which I sometimes wrote notes to whomever might happen to see it. There’s some minivans out there with arrows showing that if the radiatoris facing this way there’s something wrong.

 

[Resin Addict]

while in high school I worked part time for my Dad’s Chevy dealership (early 70’s). We had a customer bring in a vehicle that had a “strange sounding clunk” inside one of the doors while turning the car. Dis-assembled the door and found a coke bottle hanging inside from a wire coat hanger that had a note attached to it saying “ wondered when someone would find this”.

 

[Centurion07]

We need to raise minimum wage! You know, so we can by more Airheads...

 

[Eyeball]

It happens in all sorts of ways with manufacturing and maintenance.

I had my hobby car gutted for a complete mod redo. It was manufactured in early 1971. Under the original carpet was a manufacturer's stock label for Sweet Sue soup. Unless they canned soup on the body line, I have no clue.


While helping with construction, many foundations have time capsules of beer cans dating back to being built.

We even have parts that come from a foundry with various artwork hand written in black marker. Stick figures and happy faces within the sequence numbers that are on the hidden back side when assembled They are painted over so only a faint image can be seen... if noticing when assembling.

Yes, our assembly lines at where I work, doesn't allow food, yet food wrappers are everywhere. Ha!

The last big surprise was that we found a prison shank made from a Mexican prison work program. They packaged stuff supposedly. It was a crude sharpened 14 awg wire stuck in a cut rectangular section of plastic. Very small but 4 inches all they needed to be able to conceal.

I used to work at an aircraft manufacturing plant that was built before World War II. One day in the mid-80s, I was up in the catwalks working on a plenum, mostly trying to stay out of sight and out of mind. While reaching under a gigantic fan motor, I found a newspaper stashed underneath. It crumbled as I opened it, but the front page referenced a derogatory term for a Japanese person and the latest happenings in the Pacific theater of the war. That really caught my attention because I had no idea that the paper was decades old. Another part of the page had a story about the number of boys lost in the war that week. Further back it had homes for sale at wildly low prices. If I remember correctly, it was a few thousand bucks for a home in San Pedro, California, etc.

I felt a strange kinship with the guy from 40 years prior who was just up there goofing around like me...

 

[2nd 392]

I worked for a poultry co. , starting before a strike disgruntled plant workers would sabotage product by inserting pins and needles in chickens, or gross chicken heads in packages. I have personally driven my truck into residential areas to deliver a free case of ck , with apologies to the recipients.

Ck plant line workers are on balance not highly educated and skilled, they would be unemployed if such stupidly got the plant shut down and or sued.
This went up to the plant manager who after the USDA inspector made some recommendations. The genius told him It’s my plant and I’ll run it the way I want ! The inspector changed it from recommended to violations, correction required , red tagged and shut the plant down until the upgrades were completed, ~ 3 weeks IIRC. It cost the company M’s, and the employees a lay off…. Yes, he was fired.

 

[ORACLE Terry]

My son had seen how poorly the back-up camera worked in the dark on my JL so he was so kind to buy me a set of Oracle LED reverse lights for my birthday. Super easy install he told me, pop out the reflectors in the rear bumper and screw in the Oracle lights. He even purchased the kit with the Plug and Play harness for a quick electrical hook-up.

This was back in April of 2024 but what he didn't know was that yes, although it isn't a hard install, since I had the tow package the rear bumper needed to be removed to access the area where the reflectors need to be removed and the new lights installed. From what I've seen, it seems even with no tow package removing the bumper makes the process less painful.

I finally decided I better install the lights before the weather got cold here in Minnesota and the daylight hours got too short. The install wasn't too bad and I am very pleased how much brighter these lights are compared to the stock reverse lights located in the tail lights. I even joked with my son that I could now shine deer, in reverse!

My only shock was, when removing the passenger side tail light to hook up the Plug and Play electrical harness, I came across an Airheads candy wrapper placed in the tail light opening. This wrapper had to have been discarded during the initial assembly in Toledo. Is this classified as an Easter Egg?

Now I'm curious how many other unauthorized "Easter Eggs" are stuffed in various cavities on my Jeep. I'm pretty sure I'm also not the only owner who has come across such items left behind by assembly line employees.

Those are so bright now!!!

 

[Zeddy]

In the mid 90’s I took apart a Camry rear door for a rattle and found a chip bag and Soda can…The car was brand new.

 

[Megawatt]

Dayummm. That’s a big bag. I was picturing a single serve wrapper not the large packaging.

 

[ArcadeTracks]

Dayummm. That’s a big bag. I was picturing a single serve wrapper not the large packaging.

Jeep assembly requires more than Fun Size portions

 

[jcruse64]

It's all good, as long as it's not your surgeon doing that.

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