The Chronicles of Humphrey » Car http://hum.phrey.net A blog about coffee, travelling adventures, and nerdy stuff. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:06:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Farewell Exhaust Pipe http://hum.phrey.net/2009/08/30/farewell-exhaust-pipe/ http://hum.phrey.net/2009/08/30/farewell-exhaust-pipe/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:25:00 +0000 Humphrey Murray http://wp.phrey.net/blog/2009/08/30/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!

Broken Exhaust 1

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:

Broken Exhaust 2

Broken Exhaust 3

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 :-)

So take it easy on the roads guys, and thanks for subscribing.

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