Doors off fail!

[Oatmeal]

My son was helping me take the doors off for the first time. He decides to freehand unscrew the door tensioner and the bit falls into oblivion. Jeep designed an open gap in the door sill and the bit fell right in. I tried using an extending metallic tool but the curvature snapped the metal rod. I went to Lowe’s and grabbed a donut shaped magnet and put a long zip tie on it, but that was also a fail. Turns out there is a cap in the wheel well you can take off. Then I used a long zip tie to push the bit from inside the door sill out into the wheel well.

I included a pic of the gap and the cap.

has anyone filled this hole? Is it important (door drainage)?

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[primethios]

I have not noticed that hole but I installed the rugged ridge sill guards a couple weeks ago that may assist with this in the future

EDIT:
I just walked out to take a picture for you to see if the sill guards would help but wow that gap is big enough to fit my finger up to the first knuckle. I didn't even realize that, or I just didn't think what would happen if I dropped a bolt or screw.

 

[Oatmeal]

I went looking for sill guards after you mentioned that. I think some of them cover part of the hole but not all of it. I may just find something I can stuff in there that’s not permanent. That lost but was a royal PITA to get out!

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