So I was driving my car yesterday and I parked it in the parking lot and went into the store. When I was getting back into my car I noticed that the plastic piece that goes over the keylock hole on the outside of the car next to the handle was missing. Anyone ever hear of these falling off? Also does anyone know the part number for them and know if they come painted?

 

Was the area around the keyhole scratched up? If so, it may have been an attempted break-in. Those usually don't fall off!

 

If it was the passenger side, it was probably stolen. A popular mod is to put the passenger side cover on the driver side to cover the keyhole. Don't know the part numbers, but yes they do come prepainted and no they don't just fall off.

 

they're pretty hard to pry off if you've ever taken one off.. they wont just fall off

someone probably stole it.. you can put it on the driver side so it does not have a keyhole..

its like $10-$15

 

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FYI: Also known as an escutcheon.
They do come prepainted but I don't know the part number.

Maybe this will help:https://g35driver.com/forums/showthr...ght=escutcheon

An escutcheon is also an item of door furniture. In this case, it is an architectural item that surrounds a keyhole or lock cylinder. Escutcheons are mainly decorative: they draw the eye to the keyhole. However some help to protect a lock cylinder from drilling or snapping, and the surrounding area from wear

 

Oh ok... thank you all for the info. Does anyone know the part number for them? The driver side one was the one to come off.

 

Get the passenger side one and cover up your driver's side keyhole instead. Looks much better!

 

Grubbs Infiniti here in TX doesn't even carry them. I bought one for my 07Serengeti Sand coupe.

Here is the Infiniti dealer selling them for the drivers side.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...2447110&rd=1,1

Not $10-$15.

John

 

Since that is Riverside you might try sending a PM to Tony first and see if he will give you a better price over his auction.

 

yeap happened to me a while back came out of class didn't know about it, went to work, my coworker noticed it and said ay someone probably tried to jack your car, i was like wth, person must be stupid to do that, next thing i checked it out and didn't see any scratches and thought that it would have jsut fell off so i went to school right after work to where i parked and saw the piece sitting on the floor, so yea it did fall off for me, on the passenger side thou, i put it back just have to screw the screw back in, i guess it rattles off and falls off

 

mine actually fell off a couple times before i bought a blank one