Steering Column plastic piece

It is the break away in an accident that allows the column to collapse instead of skewering you on it. I would think the most difficult thing is that it locates the column length properly so you might have to fiddle with it when you reinstall to get it correctly onto the splines for the steering gear, and correctly located as far as how close the wheel is to the dash. Column also has those break away plastic mounts under the dash on the column bracket.