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Hello, hello, everybody.
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Welcome back to another Subi Scoop.
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I haven't done one of these in four weeks because I ended up doing a bonus episode for Overland
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Expo with Joe from Subaru, where a Subi Scoop normally would have been.
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So welcome back to the Subi Scoop.
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On this edition of the Subi Scoop, I'm going to talk about the accident that occurred on
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Saturday, November 15th.
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So I'll try to sum this up so I don't go too long with it, but basically what happened
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is I was driving down the road, a dog goes walking out in front of my car and pretty
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slowly and it was a really small dog.
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So of course, I slammed all my brakes because I'm trying not to hit the dog.
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And I was really close to where the dog started to go out into the road because it was off
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on the median and I didn't see it at first because I'm watching the road and then all
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of a sudden I see it pop out onto the road so I slam on my brakes and I was really hoping
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that the middle of my car would just drive over the top of the dog because it was a
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But anyway, so I come to a stop, look up at my rear view mirror and then I see the Jeep
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coming and it just hits me.
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And it hit me pretty decently hard and so I get out and I'm trying to talk to the driver
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but unfortunately he didn't really speak English.
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But I think he was an Uber driver because his passenger got out and I was chatting
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with him but I don't know exactly if the guy was like looking at his AC to make adjustments
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or maybe he was talking to his passenger or what but when I stopped, I was stopped for
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about a second or two before he actually hit me.
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So I know he was far enough behind me that he could have stopped and he didn't because
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there were no tire screeches behind me so I know the guy wasn't paying attention
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I didn't see that I had stopped and like there's how do you not see that somebody stopped in
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So whatever speed he was going, that's the speed that he hit me.
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So you know but thankfully I was okay, everything was good with that.
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And of course I was upset but you know I was thankful that it wasn't worse.
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So you know Pearl didn't fare so well though, I mean thankfully she was still
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drivable so I was able to drive her home and despite getting hit like that, still sounds
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and drives so smooth.
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But as far as Pearl is concerned, it dented in the hatch in the middle so the hatch
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is pushed in like it's concave now and like my license plate is bent.
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So there are like tail lights and I think it's where yeah so there's tail lights on
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the hatch and they were untouched.
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Like the tail lights are totally fine, they just got pushed out of their housing because
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of how the hatch bent in, it pushed them out of the housing a little bit but they're
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stuck like in place because of the way everything is bent up.
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And then the bumper got pretty jacked up and of course you know there's like the little side
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panels of the bumper that snap in or clip into place to the body of the car like over the
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Well those had popped out because the bumper flexed and those popped out so I just popped
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But it split my easy flares because I had easy flares in the wheel well and it just
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split that in half and or split it right where the the seam is from the bumper to the car.
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And then somehow I guess the guys because it was a I think it was a Jeep Cherokee I guess
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the bumper is low-ish or something because it pushed my bumper underneath but since it's
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fiberglass it just flexed back.
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But it hit the muffler under my car and it pushed the muffler forward and it popped it out of
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all of the hangers so the mufflers dented and then you have the muffler and then you have
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the the exhaust pipe that goes from the muffler to I guess the next connect you know
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the first connection.
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I don't know what it's called because I don't know a lot about exhaust but there's
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like two flanges that come together where they have the connect the muffler connected to the
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rest of the exhaust system and that got bent just a little bit so there's like a gap between
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So now my muffler sounds like a mild nameless performance muffler.
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So it actually sounds a little cool.
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Of course it's not cool that Pearl got hit but that's not how I wanted to do a muffler
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upgrade or a muffler delete but yeah so so that happened and then again the hatch I'm
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just I'm really surprised that it did not bust out the back glass Subaru however you built
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these cross treks I mean you did a great job because it took the impact really really
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well and most of the impact was on the hatch and under the bumper because the crash bar
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that's behind the bumper is perfectly fine it's not bent at all it's perfectly intact
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from what I can tell to the frame rails underneath are perfectly fine the body of the car where
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the hatch closes and meets the body the body is fine it's like the hatch and the underneath
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the bumper and and the muffler like took all of the hit and so you know so I'm thankful
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that it happened that way and it wasn't worse and my hatch of course is closed and I am not
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going to attempt to try to open it because I know that if I open it I probably won't
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be able to get it shut and I don't want that to happen if you look at the inside
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of the hatch the inside of the hatch like that plastic panel that goes across the back it
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doesn't even look like it was damaged at all so it was like I don't know it's it's kind
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of weird but thankful for that everything inside the hatch was fine so gonna call the
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insurance company find out what to do hopefully be able to get pearl fixed and get a repaired
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I really really hope that they don't try to total my car because that would be very very
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very disappointing and and I would not be happy about that at all so much of my reasoning
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for wanting to hang on to pearl for as long as I can is one because it's my first Subaru
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to because I just love my car that's why it has 138,000 miles on it and three one
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of the biggest reasons is because it's a manual I can't just like go get another manual so
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I really really hope that they don't try to total it because to me it seems like it should
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all be able to be repaired and I don't think out I seriously doubt the repairs are gonna
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be more than what my car is worth so we'll we'll see what happens but I'll keep everybody
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informed but yeah so that's what happened it was a fun day let me tell you but then on
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Sunday the day got even better or the weekend got even better so we went over to Jonathan's
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house he goes by Subaru and we changed out the front axle on the passenger side of my
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son Luke's outback his 3.6R so we changed out the axle because the boot was damaged
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and it started leaking out like you know as it's spinning it was just flinging out the
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grease so we got a new axle got it replaced and that was great but then we start driving
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back to my apartment and I think he had stopped to get gas so I was at my apartment already
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and he calls me and said hey my car is like dying like it's dying while it's driving
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and all my lights are coming on and other lights that have never come on before coming
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on so he parked in a grocery store parking lot I went over there to meet him and his battery
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was dying because at that point like it wasn't even starting and the battery said January
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of 2022 so yeah it seems about right that it's probably time to change it out but and it
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was it came with a car when we bought it so we were able to use some jumper cables
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and get his car started and then we went to an advanced auto parts store and got them to
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test the battery and sure enough the battery was was no good so we got another battery
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and then they were like let's test out the alternator and see if it's you know what caused
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the battery to be drained and it ended up being apparently the starter because it said
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that the starter was at like 8 volts and it's supposed to be at 12 volts so I guess
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we're going to have to look into potentially getting another starter but I also want him
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to take it to another place because they were having issues with their little reader and or with
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the the meter that they put on the battery to test the the charge they couldn't like get
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it to work right so I want him to go to another place and get somebody else to look at it just
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in case yeah so then we had that happen on Sunday and but thankfully we got him another
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battery he ended up driving home and it was totally fine so but now we'll have to I want to get it
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tested again to make sure that you know if they if another place says yeah it looks like the starter
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is going bad then now we got to look at getting a starter too so that's going to be fun you
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know all this happening after I still don't have a job but you know I still I still feel
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very blessed right now so I'm not like super worried about things but you know in a little bit
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it's gonna it's gonna get a little scary maybe but hopefully I've got some prospects out there
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of potential jobs some resumes out there so we'll see what happens but that was my weekend
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and I really really hope that everybody stays careful out there just especially when your
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intersections watch out for these idiots running red lights don't just start going right away because
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the light turns green so everybody please please be careful and stay safe and I hope y'all have
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a wonderful week and I'll talk to you later much to be loved graph
