Help identify this mystery Soft Top part - photo attached!

[TedW]

This rubber pad is designed to be riveted in the center of the hoopset windscreen rail. The rail is not predrilled for the rivets.

Question for the group: What is this for?

I did not install this piece when I installed my hoopset ten years ago. Since then:

Said hoopset has not fallen off;
The engine has not exploded;
I am not leaking oil any more than usual.

So.....what's it for???? I gotta know.

Ted

[rbonnett]

Shock absorber for the mirror ?

[Eric W S]

That's easy. Look at old Land Rover sale literature. All the soft tops have that rubber block on the windscreen frame. Why?

To protect your bonnet when the windscreen is folded down...

[Andrew IIA]

That's easy. Look at old Land Rover sale literature. All the soft tops have that rubber block on the windscreen frame. Why?

To protect your bonnet when the windscreen is folded down...

I thought that's what the spare on the bonnet was for

[Eric W S]

I thought that's what the spare on the bonnet was for

That'll work too!