The spot on your floorboard where your parking brake lever is mounted is pretty much just a giant hole in your floorboard. If you pull back the parking brake lever boot and peer down, you'll get a good look at your chassis and the road below. Without that parking brake lever boot, you'd just have an opening for road grime and wind to blow in. If you've got a mangled parking brake lever boot on your hands, you can swap it out with a replacement from AutoAnything. And, the shipping is free.