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Originally Posted by nikitis
I have an Inferno Orange Camaro 2012, and I was driving home from dinner and a large tailpipe was in the road in the other lane. A jeep was next to me slightly ahead and ran it over, but like a rock shoots from a tire this tailpipe also shot out sideways and hit my car. It barely missed the right side door, and hit the main body in two places. Denting it both places and taking the paint off.
I'm so mad right now. How the hell can someone lose a tailpipe and not go back for it? It's late now but In will get pictures in the morning and post them.
Anyone else have any horror stories like this with their Camaros? It would help me feel better if I knew I wasn't the only Camaro owner who had an accident like this.
Thanks for your time in reading this, and your comments will help me feel better.
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Pfft. I was driving down Route 1 in PA. Some beat ass loud pickup pulls off of Route 13 onto Route 1 via the exit. I hear this horrible grinding noise. The pickup is speeding and I see it - the dude is dragging his exhaust from the axle back.
I exclaim, "Holy shit! That dude's exhaust is dragging!" to myself.
Not 2 seconds later, the tailpipe from the muffler back detaches completely, doubles end over end, bouncing at me at 65 miles per hour like a boomerang as I drive toward it at full speed. The thing jumps across 2 lanes of traffic, smacks the front bumper and I ride over it at 60+ miles per hour. It was a frigging heat-seeking missile. I wasn't even in his lane. The whole thing was happening in slow motion in my mind, where the inner monolouge went something like Darth Vader's "NOOOO!!!!" from Episode 3. The steel bumper had a baseball-sized dent in it. Good thing I was in a company work truck with a stainless steel bumper, because it would've ripped up the Camaro really badly. The lower air dam has a 1 foot chunk taken out of it, too.
People are just scumbags. They don't care.