During my Easter break I decided to go for a drive. During my trip, I happened across a surprisingly elaborate set of off-road trails. My '98 Forester handled them beautifully! Yesterday I returned to college. After dinner, several of my friends and I decided to go on an adventure. My hope was I could find a trail near school. We found a dirt road, and decided to see where it went. As we rounded a bend, we found that we had stumbled across an access road for a construction site that was closed for the day. Also around this bend was a large rock/stump that looked like a dirt pile in the trail. Thinking it was just dirt, I continued down the trail.
*Sccrrraaaape!*
As soon as I hit it, I heard the exhaust change. I don't know if it bent the pipe or punctured it, but now my 1998 Forester sounds like a WRX. I haven't had a chance to crawl under the car yet, but glancing under I did see a loose hose clamp that I had used to tighten my rattling heat shields. The lesson: when driving off-road, avoid objects that rise up out of the trail.
LIP89
*Sccrrraaaape!*
As soon as I hit it, I heard the exhaust change. I don't know if it bent the pipe or punctured it, but now my 1998 Forester sounds like a WRX. I haven't had a chance to crawl under the car yet, but glancing under I did see a loose hose clamp that I had used to tighten my rattling heat shields. The lesson: when driving off-road, avoid objects that rise up out of the trail.
LIP89