Driving over to a friends house tonight to watch the San Remo rally I was putting along 45 in a 45 zone on a major road (4 lane) in our city and out of nowhere I saw a gray square block thingy sitting in the middle of the road! :eek:

I didn't have time to swerve or anything but was able to slow down a tad and straddled it.

KAWHUMP! :(

i hear this nasty sound as I realized it was some concrete block someone dropped, kicked, put in the middle of the road! :mad:

It scraped the plastic under my WRX body and dented (a little) the metal T thingy just past the oil pan (didn't touch that thankfully!). Almost looked like a front differential protector? Not sure. Also scraped a little on the sway bar (long metal connecting the car in the middle just past the last cat convertor). (sorry i don't know all the under car part names :) ) One thing I noticed was that under the plastic lip was a 10MM bolt sitting in one of the holes. I have no clue where it came from! It was just pointing down loose. I looked for anything missing but didn't see anything. Weird.

I felt SICK! :( Thinking i did some serious damage but looks to be alright. Car drove fine, nothing leaking at all and the exhaust system wasn't touched.

My car has 1200 miles and it's my 1st major underbody dingy. Grr! :mad:

someone else have a story like this? Make me feel a little better..hehe. I feel stupid as i thought that I could've swerved and missed it.

Ugh.

Ok. Thanks for listening :)

~V

That totally sucks:( . I just went over 1200 miles on my WRx and I would be totally bummed if that happened to me. People who drop stuff in the middle of the road should be shot:mad:.......well maybe not shot, but they should be punished.

beaten with the object they dropped? :)

Originally posted by sybir
beaten with the object they dropped? :)

I like that idea:D .

I'm with you on that one! :)

Well, i'll be doubly watching my driving now. Oh well, it had to happen sooner or later. Just was hoping it was later...hehe

like 5 years later...

:D

yeah, i got a big rig tire thrown at me, in the rain, at 70, at night. No warning, just a fat impact that bottomed out my car (it hit right at the top of the windshield) and somehow didn't damage it. I was too shaken to take off after the rig though; i was lucky it didn't smack the windshield or I'd be ina world of hurt...... :(
then I drove over 3 2x4's in my OB and barely noticed them :p

Ugh one time on the way to work in my '99 OBS some flat-bed construction vehicle in front me of had some metal pipes on the back and one of them let loose in front of me. These pipes were large and I knew I couldn't get out of the way. Luckily enough the OBS had enough clearance and the pipe bounced and turned vertical to my car and I just went right over it. I just kind of closed my eyes when driving over it because I thought for sure it was gonna rip something apart.

Good thing your car isn't lowered! or is it? that would have been fun.

nope..bone stock. Not lowered or anything.

Was thinking that if it was lowered or had some fancy front lip it would be gone!

I had a squirrel run out in the road in front of me. Most people would swerve to hit it, least that's what they do in Montana... but I straddled it hoping it would duck or something. I checked my rear view mirror and it was still running across the road. A little shaken, but otherwise unscathed.

Chad
93 1.8T

My friend's brother works for a metal scrap yard. He was driving a truckload of shreded pieces of metal, the kind that you get out of the machines that chew up the metal, like a wood chip shredder.

Anyway, they didn't latch the truck and a few million pieces of metal skattered all over a highway bridge..... He caused hundreds of flat tires. I'm sure the insurance co loved them after that. (that was in louisville, ky)

Yet another reason to buy a skidplate! :D They're not only for rallies!

Check the Vendor Classifieds.

hahaha! that's too funny! i bet lots of people didn't like that...hehe


hmm..skidplate? i think i'll go browsing over there now...

thanks!

thats how I lost my Impreza 1.8 L two months ago!!!


I was avoiding a squirrel\l and hit some sand, then hit a telephone pole then, luckily a tree stopped my progress in a ditch.

I must say, the car was trashed but i only had minor cuts from the glass,


I lost that subie :( but now two months later I have a rexy to call my own!!!!




:monkey: :monkey: :monkey: :monkey: :monkey: To that squirrel out there!!!!!!!!!1

Oh god, that sucks man :(

Two days after I got my WRX, I was driving home doing about 65 on a two lane backroad (speed limit 55). A Chevy Z71 pickup truck pulled out in front of me, and I was hard on the brakes. Then I noticed a BIG cooler fell out of the back of his truck... as the genius driving it had left the gate down and then tried to accelerate quickly while cornering. I was down to about 20mph and I BARELY avoided the cooler that was now sitting in the middle of the road. I started laying on the horn, hoping the guy would look back and figure out what happened... but he kept on going.

15 miles down the road when I made my turn, he still hadn't figured it out. Oh well... somebody has a nice big cooler for free, I bet.

About a year ago, a group of about 10 of us were heading downtown to check out the Grand Prix Events. On the way, we took a country high way. I was third in a line of 4 cars (my old Civic and two others, lead by a Nissan 200SX SE-R....not that that's important to the story). Anyway, about a mile outside of town, the two cars in front of me swerved hard. We were running pretty close together (mistake #1) and I had little time to react...I saw a big object in the middle of the lane...I swerved hard towards the shoulder....and heard a huge crack sound followed by loud bang. We pulled over to check the damage (luckily, I was the only one to take any damage). I had busted the front lip on my Si, scraped about 6 inches of paint off of the side skirt, and goose-egged the tire. We checked out the debris in the road. There was one large concrete block in the middle (the object I had seen)...scattered around it were smaller pieces of concrete. We looked up to see a bunch of rednecks run into their trailer and turn off the lights. Hmm...they ran to hide and the blocks were right in front of their 'house.' How suspicious is that. We banged on the door, but they pretended they weren't their. We let it go and continued downtown. I was pretty pissed, but glad that it hadn't torn off my oilpan or something else like that.

BTW...a week later, about a tenth of my wheel broke off and my tire deflated in the parking lot at my work. I'm pretty sure it was weakened by the block.

So yeah, I feel your pain.;)

I ran over a case of empty beer bottles that someone had intentionally put in the middle of a country road.

Believe it or not....no flats, just engine bay full of brown glass!

DOOOD! That sucks!
My story isn't so bad...I was getting on the 280 and was at about 65 when a flat bed truck 3 or 4 car lengths in front of me lost a hefty bag full of crushed aluminum cans!!! Hundreds of them falling from the sky like rain!
Anyway, by some miracle I did not get any (new) paint chips. I did, however, run over many, many cans. My car seemed to be driving fine so I motored down the road. After I applied the brakes when I got off on my exit, I heard this clank-clank-clank...
turned the radio down, sound was still there. Oh crap, I thought, I have undercarriage damage. When I came to a stop three or four cans fell from somewhere underneath my car onto the pavement:lol: . Sound has not come back!
To this day I have no idea where they could have been lodged for the 4 or 5 miles I was cruising down 280...

I was driving my SUV on a 50mph Route and saw something funny under the red Oldsmobile in front of me. As I got closer, I suddenly saw sparks! I quickly realized that he was dragging his muffler and instantly looked to my right to switch lanes. As I turned my head, I saw (out of the corner of my eye) his entire exhaust system free itself from the underbody...at 55/60mph!:eek: I couldn't get over to the next lane and swerved left, then right while braking as I saw the set of pipes and muffler tumbling end over end heading for me. No good. Concrete barrier on left, cars on right. I hoped for the best and luckily the sucker stopped tumbling as I ran over it!
My truck had no damage, thank goodness. I'm sure there would've been for my Subie. The moron didn't even know what had happened! I honked and flashed, but nothing! Idiot.:rolleyes:

my car was 3 weeks old and has a truck tire fly up from hit the front bummper. It took out the condenser on the a/c that cost me $680. It also did about a $1000 damage to the bummber. My car is still in the body shop. They've had it over a week.

I was backing up in someones drive way (actualy turning around) and backed over a cinder block (dem big gray bricks with the big holes threw dem) it's good that they aren't very strong and it just broke into like 6 pieces. No biggee.

Had a squirrel run out in front of me.........last thing i herd (as well as the squirrel) was a scull cracking......as least it was quick.

My girl (driving my VW GTi) mashed a rabbit doing 80, i could tell by the velosity and vector of the rabbit, that it got nailed right in the middle. It was raining and we were on a trip so no clean up, No pain.......


Finally, this summer i "collected" a road kill ground hog, with the jet ski trailer. Musta lifted it with the sube and cought it with the trailer, luckily it didn't get stuck. Man did that sucker tumble.......

lmao :lol:

A piece of plywood levitated up and out of a pick-up bed at about 70 on a Florida Interstate (295). Looked like a magic trick, until the wind caught it.

That sheet suddenly tumbled and stopped going 70. I swerved hard and avoided it, but the guy behind me never saw it coming. Ouch.

I've also seen a hubcap come off a vehicle in front of me when we were all doing about 80mph. The sucker took off rolling, then immediately lifted up 20ft into the air like a flying saucer, cut across a few lanes of traffic (interstate with local lanes running alongside) and descended down towards the local lanes. It was funny to see all the cars suddenly hit their brakes and I imagine all the eyes looking up slackjawed (like me). Sucker didn't get any cars, though!:lol:

hehe..glad to see i'm not the only one who's experienced this kind of trauma. :D :(

Car has been running great since Monday. Haven't noticed any problems, leaks or anything so I think the damage was cosmetic.

At least people aren't on their knees looking underneath the car the whole time. :)

Last fall I crunched a beaver (!) near my apartment complex. I was in my GTP then. Driving around 15 as it was slightly downhill and curvy. And all of a sudden I see this thing in the middle of the road. I had no time to swerve, stop or whatever and tried to straddle it.

Guess what. The beaver stood up as soon as I got near it.

CRUNCH! hehehe

So we turned around and drove by it and it was definately dead.

Later on my buddy was coming to visit and he didn't see it either and hit it again..hehehe

Not as in all wheel drive but lumber. Interstate speeds, van towing a boat to my right. All of a sudden I see something fly from under the front wheel of the van at my car. BAM! I nearly pooped my pants. I look to the rearview to see this piece of 4"x4" about a foot long tumbling across the highway. Luckily it was my last car, an 88 VW, and it took me about five minutes to determine which was a new dent and what was old...:rolleyes:

Glad to hear that there was no major damage to your rex. I also have a horror story of running into/over things, luckily though (knock on wood) not with my Subie yet.

Well, my only mishap was running over a couple of mattresses while doing ~75-70 in my '98 Dakota. Just imagine cruising down the highway on a nice night, then have the truck full of mattresses in front of you lose it’s load. It’s a bird, It’s a plane, Noo…It’s a flying mattress :lol:

Luckily though, no damage to me or my truck.

Stuff in the road sucks.
A few months back I was passed (on the right) by a pick up with it was rushing through traffic like a mad man. There was a washing machine sliding around in the back. A bit later I dodge said washing machine (It was stradling the line between the two left lane). A short time after that I saw the pickup backing down the shoulder with its gate open.

One of my coworkers claims to have run over a stoplight on an interstate on ramp around here. Massive damage to undercarriage. No damage to him.

Worst one. One of my friends hit a sofa in the road. Her new car was totaled. She got pretty messed up as well. This was months ago and her back is finally starting to heal. She still is not right though.

Thankfully in your case you and the rex are ok.

Let's try to keep out any encounters with animals....and keep it focused on furniture, household goods, construction material and the like.

And pluh-eeeze, no tragic stories.:(

Just trying to keep this interesting story thread from being closed. :)

as long as we're telling stories...

cruising down the freeway top down; all of a sudden the hood on the car in front of me (maybe a couple hundred feet) goes airborne - flips up and rips completely off, tumbling over and over - at least 50 feet in the air. Lands square in my lane. Should have just run it over but I was already swerving to avoid so it wouldn't land on top of me. (half a second later and I could well have been decapitated.)

As it was I slammed into the median, hitting the rear wheel on the curb. If there had been more traffic it would have been a real mess. Didn't check the damage right then; the car was still driveable so I took off after the guy (he hadn't stopped - oops, there goes the hood, oh well...) and called the state trooper on my cell phone. Caught up to him in a parking lot and waited for the trooper to show up. Of course it turns out it's not even his car, and neither he nor the owner had insurance.

Insurance company said since the hood didn't actually make contact with my car, if I wanted to make a claim it would go down as my fault! Probably could have fought it with the police report and all, but for the cost of a cracked wheel and a new tire it wasn't worth it.

The kicker came a year later, when I'm hearing a clunking noise from that wheel; take it in and the dealer finds $1000 worth of damage that they hadn't noticed before. Apparently got worse over time. Probably should have bitched more about them not finding the damage the first time around, oh well.