Subie Scoop - November 17

Hello, hello, everybody.

Welcome back to another Subi Scoop.

I haven't done one of these in four weeks because I ended up doing a bonus episode for Overland

Expo with Joe from Subaru, where a Subi Scoop normally would have been.

So welcome back to the Subi Scoop.

On this edition of the Subi Scoop, I'm going to talk about the accident that occurred on

Saturday, November 15th.

So I'll try to sum this up so I don't go too long with it, but basically what happened

is I was driving down the road, a dog goes walking out in front of my car and pretty

slowly and it was a really small dog.

So of course, I slammed all my brakes because I'm trying not to hit the dog.

And I was really close to where the dog started to go out into the road because it was off

on the median and I didn't see it at first because I'm watching the road and then all

of a sudden I see it pop out onto the road so I slam on my brakes and I was really hoping

that the middle of my car would just drive over the top of the dog because it was a

small dog.

But anyway, so I come to a stop, look up at my rear view mirror and then I see the Jeep

coming and it just hits me.

And it hit me pretty decently hard and so I get out and I'm trying to talk to the driver

but unfortunately he didn't really speak English.

But I think he was an Uber driver because his passenger got out and I was chatting

with him but I don't know exactly if the guy was like looking at his AC to make adjustments

or maybe he was talking to his passenger or what but when I stopped, I was stopped for

about a second or two before he actually hit me.

So I know he was far enough behind me that he could have stopped and he didn't because

there were no tire screeches behind me so I know the guy wasn't paying attention

at all.

I didn't see that I had stopped and like there's how do you not see that somebody stopped in

front of you.

So whatever speed he was going, that's the speed that he hit me.

So you know but thankfully I was okay, everything was good with that.

And of course I was upset but you know I was thankful that it wasn't worse.

So you know Pearl didn't fare so well though, I mean thankfully she was still

drivable so I was able to drive her home and despite getting hit like that, still sounds

and drives so smooth.

But as far as Pearl is concerned, it dented in the hatch in the middle so the hatch

is pushed in like it's concave now and like my license plate is bent.

So there are like tail lights and I think it's where yeah so there's tail lights on

the hatch and they were untouched.

Like the tail lights are totally fine, they just got pushed out of their housing because

of how the hatch bent in, it pushed them out of the housing a little bit but they're

stuck like in place because of the way everything is bent up.

And then the bumper got pretty jacked up and of course you know there's like the little side

panels of the bumper that snap in or clip into place to the body of the car like over the

wheel well.

Well those had popped out because the bumper flexed and those popped out so I just popped

those back in.

But it split my easy flares because I had easy flares in the wheel well and it just

split that in half and or split it right where the the seam is from the bumper to the car.

And then somehow I guess the guys because it was a I think it was a Jeep Cherokee I guess

the bumper is low-ish or something because it pushed my bumper underneath but since it's

fiberglass it just flexed back.

But it hit the muffler under my car and it pushed the muffler forward and it popped it out of

all of the hangers so the mufflers dented and then you have the muffler and then you have

the the exhaust pipe that goes from the muffler to I guess the next connect you know

the first connection.

I don't know what it's called because I don't know a lot about exhaust but there's

like two flanges that come together where they have the connect the muffler connected to the

rest of the exhaust system and that got bent just a little bit so there's like a gap between

the two flanges.

So now my muffler sounds like a mild nameless performance muffler.

So it actually sounds a little cool.

Of course it's not cool that Pearl got hit but that's not how I wanted to do a muffler

upgrade or a muffler delete but yeah so so that happened and then again the hatch I'm

just I'm really surprised that it did not bust out the back glass Subaru however you built

these cross treks I mean you did a great job because it took the impact really really

well and most of the impact was on the hatch and under the bumper because the crash bar

that's behind the bumper is perfectly fine it's not bent at all it's perfectly intact

from what I can tell to the frame rails underneath are perfectly fine the body of the car where

the hatch closes and meets the body the body is fine it's like the hatch and the underneath

the bumper and and the muffler like took all of the hit and so you know so I'm thankful

that it happened that way and it wasn't worse and my hatch of course is closed and I am not

going to attempt to try to open it because I know that if I open it I probably won't

be able to get it shut and I don't want that to happen if you look at the inside

of the hatch the inside of the hatch like that plastic panel that goes across the back it

doesn't even look like it was damaged at all so it was like I don't know it's it's kind

of weird but thankful for that everything inside the hatch was fine so gonna call the

insurance company find out what to do hopefully be able to get pearl fixed and get a repaired

I really really hope that they don't try to total my car because that would be very very

very disappointing and and I would not be happy about that at all so much of my reasoning

for wanting to hang on to pearl for as long as I can is one because it's my first Subaru

to because I just love my car that's why it has 138,000 miles on it and three one

of the biggest reasons is because it's a manual I can't just like go get another manual so

I really really hope that they don't try to total it because to me it seems like it should

all be able to be repaired and I don't think out I seriously doubt the repairs are gonna

be more than what my car is worth so we'll we'll see what happens but I'll keep everybody

informed but yeah so that's what happened it was a fun day let me tell you but then on

Sunday the day got even better or the weekend got even better so we went over to Jonathan's

house he goes by Subaru and we changed out the front axle on the passenger side of my

son Luke's outback his 3.6R so we changed out the axle because the boot was damaged

and it started leaking out like you know as it's spinning it was just flinging out the

grease so we got a new axle got it replaced and that was great but then we start driving

back to my apartment and I think he had stopped to get gas so I was at my apartment already

and he calls me and said hey my car is like dying like it's dying while it's driving

and all my lights are coming on and other lights that have never come on before coming

on so he parked in a grocery store parking lot I went over there to meet him and his battery

was dying because at that point like it wasn't even starting and the battery said January

of 2022 so yeah it seems about right that it's probably time to change it out but and it

was it came with a car when we bought it so we were able to use some jumper cables

and get his car started and then we went to an advanced auto parts store and got them to

test the battery and sure enough the battery was was no good so we got another battery

and then they were like let's test out the alternator and see if it's you know what caused

the battery to be drained and it ended up being apparently the starter because it said

that the starter was at like 8 volts and it's supposed to be at 12 volts so I guess

we're going to have to look into potentially getting another starter but I also want him

to take it to another place because they were having issues with their little reader and or with

the the meter that they put on the battery to test the the charge they couldn't like get

it to work right so I want him to go to another place and get somebody else to look at it just

in case yeah so then we had that happen on Sunday and but thankfully we got him another

battery he ended up driving home and it was totally fine so but now we'll have to I want to get it

tested again to make sure that you know if they if another place says yeah it looks like the starter

is going bad then now we got to look at getting a starter too so that's going to be fun you

know all this happening after I still don't have a job but you know I still I still feel

very blessed right now so I'm not like super worried about things but you know in a little bit

it's gonna it's gonna get a little scary maybe but hopefully I've got some prospects out there

of potential jobs some resumes out there so we'll see what happens but that was my weekend

and I really really hope that everybody stays careful out there just especially when your

intersections watch out for these idiots running red lights don't just start going right away because

the light turns green so everybody please please be careful and stay safe and I hope y'all have

a wonderful week and I'll talk to you later much to be loved graph

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