by "bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
Published 01/04/2017 at 01:12
by "bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
Published 01/04/2017 at 01:12
Tags: road gator
; prius
; retread
STARS: 3
Also, fuck 2017.
That is all.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
01/04/2017 at 01:15, STARS: 0
You drive a Prius?
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
01/04/2017 at 01:17, STARS: 0
Damn. Gators would suck, having a much lower profile than most other critters.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
01/04/2017 at 01:17, STARS: 2
Angry prius
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
01/04/2017 at 01:18, STARS: 3
Yep, reviewed it here a few months ago and everything.
My other car is a Miata, but the Prius is the daily and roadtrip machine. I quite like how the Gen 4 Prius drives, actually. (If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have bought it.)
Still got low 50s MPG even after the gator ripped a damn hole in the front of the car.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
01/04/2017 at 01:19, STARS: 3
That’s more like a Post-us now.
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
01/04/2017 at 01:19, STARS: 1
Road gators aren’t animals.
They’re the aftermath of semi tires blowing out or retreads delaminating. Basically, somewhere ahead of me, a semi tire blew out or delaminated, and then I had nowhere to go when the remains of the tire were in my lane.
"Chasaboo" (chasaboo)
01/04/2017 at 01:24, STARS: 1
Hmm, I didn’t know a Prius could go fast enough to do that kind of damage.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
01/04/2017 at 01:24, STARS: 1
Ahh, I see. I’ve always wondered what kind of damaged they’d do. At least I found out at your expense.
I’m guessing you have full insurance since it’s new?
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
01/04/2017 at 01:26, STARS: 0
Yeah, filed the claim just now.
And they can do quite a lot more damage than that - radiator punctures aren’t unheard of. Don’t think I got any damage there, though, just bumper, undertray, and grille (including the active grille shutters, grr) damage. Obviously an adjuster would get a better look at all of that, though, than what I got in a parking lot at night.
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
01/04/2017 at 01:39, STARS: 2
You’re still alive ... there are worse things that could happen on the freeway.
Also hit a road gator before. Took a good while before I cooled down.
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
01/04/2017 at 01:44, STARS: 1
Oh, absolutely. There’s even worse outcomes that could’ve happened from a road gator - no apparent mechanical damage, made it home no problem once I secured the dragging parts (actually made it to my next fuel stop, where I took that photo (and got duct tape and zip ties), right as stuff started dragging again).
"sonicgabe" (gabeloewenberg)
01/04/2017 at 01:50, STARS: 5
In Florida, we have both.
"McMike" (mcmike)
01/04/2017 at 08:12, STARS: 1
August 2015 - Traveling on I-40 Between Nashville and Deal’s Gap, NC I saw a fresh gator in the left hand lane. In the middle of the left hand lane.
We were on motorcycles in the right lane.
There was a car passing us in the left lane.
I didn’t even have time to signal the bike behind us to slow.
The passing car ran right over it right as it passed us, and it sounded like machine gun fire as it made its under the car. Mrs McMike said a little pee came out because she didn’t see it coming - she just heard the violence.
In my mirror, I watched the gator exit out of the back of car #1, get airborne, and hit the front bumper of the car following. SLAP! One more gunshot.
Car #3 was able to brake and run over it a a much lower speed, and I took a deep breath of relief that none of those left-hand-lane cars did anything stupid and stayed in their lane.
One mile ahead, there was a truck on the shoulder missing a retread.
At our next fuel stop, I answered her question, “OMFG WTF WAS THAT??? WHAT WAS THAT???”
Gators suck.
"jimz" (jimz)
01/04/2017 at 08:59, STARS: 1
they’re a death sentence if a truck lets one go and you’re on a motorcycle.
"SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie" (sidewaysondirt)
01/04/2017 at 10:18, STARS: 0
I had to look up what a road gator was. Having lived in Florida for a long time, the idea of an actual gator in the road does not seem that out of the ordinary.
"SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie" (sidewaysondirt)
01/04/2017 at 10:18, STARS: 0
My thought exactly.
"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
01/04/2017 at 10:29, STARS: 0
A few days ago, I saw a truck with a debeaded tire flopping around on one of the rims of its trailer, so I got up next to the cab, honked, and attempted to motion for him to pull over. He must have noticed me, because he put on his hazards, slowed down a little bit, and.... kept going. Made no effort to pull over at all. I just hope there weren’t any motorcycles around when the tire finally gave out. Better yet, I hope his wife was driving behind in his own personal car, for some reason, and it took the full force of the impact. How selfish/stupid can you be?
"Aaaron" (aaaron)
01/09/2017 at 20:12, STARS: 0
I never understood why these get left in the middle of the road. Like... a trucker has a tire blow out, stops to check it out and then just... leaves the rest of his tire on the road? Wtf?
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
01/09/2017 at 20:14, STARS: 0
You assume that they know a blowout happened, and it may well be quite a way down the road before they get stopped, if they do know it happened.