Farewell Exhaust Pipe
For those of you who have been in Tasmania recently, you will know that it has been raining alot. Well, all that rain has had its toll on the Midlands Highway. You can barely drive more than a couple of km’s down the highway without having to swerve to avoid a large section of potholes. But that’s not the scary thing about driving in the rain. What’s most freaky is coming up behind trucks. Not only are they big and slow, but the trail of spray that comes off the back of them is so thick that you cannot see where you are going until you overtake them.
So today Kallan and I drove down to Hobart in this pouring rain. The rain was so hard that I had to leave my wipers on the super-high setting for the entire 2.5 hour trip. Somewhere near Bagdad we came up behind a truck. Just before we were about to overtake him, we both suddenly saw a flash of something fly out from underneath the truck. We still have no idea what it was as it was only visible for a flash. I only had time to tighten my grip on the steering wheel.
THUMP THUMP THUMP… was what we heard and what we felt. Yes we were still alive, and everything seemed to be running fine (except my my pulse). So I overtook the truck and kept driving down to hobart. But everything wasn’t fine!
When we arrived at Hobart I made a comment about how loud (and bogan) the hotted up car behind us was. However, it turns out that it was my car. As you can tell from the picture above, my exhaust had fallen off. I stopped the car, pulled off the exhaust, and kept going. Here is a couple more photos:
Yes, it’s kinda annoying that I’m going to need a new exhaust, but I’m thankful that it wasn’t any worse. I think we were really lucky because:
- We were only going 80km/hr at the time.
- The mystery object went under the car and didn’t flick up into the windscreen or anything else.
- Even though it is only about two years old, my exhaust pipe didn’t have much life left in it anyway.
- And, there wasn’t an potholes right where we were :-)
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Ha ha – nice photos! You told the story well!
Wouldn’t you normally need about 4 Kallans and 4 Humphreys for your exhaust to hit?!
How did you get it off? On my car I did it the easy way – reversed down our driveway until it jammed in the asphalt and popped off. Beauty mate.
Geez the Midlands is sounding more like a Bulgarian Highway. I’ve no doubt that it’ll be repaired as soon as the rain stops tho… in BG they just put signs up warning you that the road is bad! Apparently that’s more cost effective??
Cheers
Stu.
ps. we should start a club for people with a “near death experience” tag on their blog?
Poor exhaust pipe! …and poor Humphrey! I know that exhaust has caused more than its fair share of headaches. Mostly because of the dodgy brothers who installed it, but hey. Hopefully you’ll have better luck with your next one.
Well Stu, it pretty much removed itself. By the time that these photos were taken, it was just hanging there by a piece of rubber. We pulled over because we heard the exhaust scrapping on the road
Hooray for the near-death-experience tag. I’m a big fan
Hopefully we don’t get too many posts with that tag though.
Yeah, at least I know who not to get an exhaust put on by now.
Sounds like when there was a car accident outside Maccaz Invermay when I worked there, a car ran into the back of an old car, the exhaust fell off & the car just kept driving!!
Ha ha ha, that’s awesome. You should hear my car now? I’ve been told that you first feel the chug chug chug, then hear the chug chug chug, and then see my car. I reckon everybody in my street will be woken up when I drive home tonight
My car will be glad to be visiting the mechanic in the morning I reckon.
Crazy dude!! It must be a good time of the year for it bro because the Lancer finally pooed its pants as well.
I ended up sending it to Lancer Hell and getting a new one, which kind of sucked.
I relate to how you feel mate.
it’s like Bender having his arial chopped – how do you think the car felt? It is no longer a he, but a shme…
RIP – Humph’s car’s manliness
Well he’s not a she any more
All fixed! It hasn’t sounded this good in a long time. Big thanks to Rob from Tas Engine Exchange – he did a great job at getting my car sorted out quickly.