A bit of an incident with a hedge

[farmerpug]

I have not really used the forester recently, but today i gave it some petrol, a jump start and it fired up on the first turn of the key, i took it up the field, went round the first corner and a hedge spontaneously created a gravitational field and sucked the forester into the drain:

 

 

It has changed the shape of the bodywork on the affected side slightly, the most noticeable difference is the wing mirror has moved to the back door:

A more slab sided wing:

The aeriel has been tuned slightly better for the DAB switchover:

and some scratching, dents below the roof bar, and the seal for the back window has came out:

 

 

 

 

[select]

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[Jay762]

serious driftage :D

[Gambit]

I was thinking about you today in a seedy sexual way ;) 

I was going to ask did you find out what the problem was with that noise ?

But looks like you have been having fun and is now least of the problems. Can't believe no video footage this time :) 

And nice job with the aerial ;)

Did it damage the hub at all or have you not had chance to check it over yet. ?

[farmerpug]

The noise is still there, i think its possibly the brakes or a grumbly bearing, i had to push the car later on today after it wouldn't start and the noise is there it sounds like rusty disks, the handbrake also sticks on it if parked up for a while.

 

After this however the noise is less noticeable when the car is running, the exhaust is now louder.

 

The steering and suspension all seem ok.

[david1972]

Errr yikes  :o

[Gambit]

Least you know it was built to last ;) 

 

Reminds me of a austin maestro I crashed in to the river Humber bank   it was only good for scrap after that. And yes I was showing off rallying it on a gravel track I can still see the tape cassettes flying around in the air now ;) 

 

I take it you was unhurt then, did make me chuckle the wing mirror   And on the plus side at least you have given yourself some stuff to do over the Christmas time ;) 

[Tlag]

Looks like a bit of lift off under steer to me :)

Gambit, you must be the first person ever to get the words Austin Meastro and rallying into the same sentence.

[Gambit]

I would say thats because I was the only one stupid enough to try with that car :D 

[farmerpug]

I can remember my dad had two metros, great cars they were; very economical, with a very early stop start feature,

they mastered the stop bit but the start was not great. There was also a sunroof, but for some reason it was in the floor hidden under the carpet.

 

There was the metro 6r4 rally car, I'm not sure how good it was but didn't they put its engine into the jaguar xj220?

[Gambit]

I know the rear lights on the J220 was from a rover 200. Not sure about the engine I just had a poster on my wall of it :D 

[Mr San]

'tis a mere scratch.....

 

:lol:

 

 

 

 

 

at least no one was hurt :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

san

[Gambit]

Nothing a bit of Tcut couldn't sort ;) 

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Nothing a bit of Tcut couldn't sort ;)

went to buy a car once a Honda prelude in Bradford I noticed a few scratches on it dealer says to me nothing a bit of t-cut won't sort out I said why the !Removed! don't you do it then !!!!!

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[Gambit]

I bet he's a top salesmen :D 

And glad you told him, I can't believe he even said that what an idiot 

[alfanige]

I've got a professional polishing machine, pop it over and I'll have it looking like new in a tick ;-)

[Gambit]

I'm scared of them :D 

[farmerpug]

I think the forester will just live with this new look, theres not much point in spending any money on the bodywork when the chances of this happening again are quite high

Im also noticing the repair i did on the drivers door to cure the rust is showing signs of rust coming again, thats despite grinding it back to bare metal and using plenty of the green krust stuff.

[Gambit]

I don't blame you off roader toy's will always have battle scars. And so they should ;) 

[Jay762]

went to buy a car once a Honda prelude in Bradford I noticed a few scratches on it dealer says to me nothing a bit of t-cut won't sort out I said why the !Removed! don't you do it then !!!!!

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genuine :lol: :lol:

[farmerpug]

I was on copart bidding on an old 406, but had a look at what subarus were on the site,

this forester looks like its in much better nick than mine:

http://www.copart.co.uk/c2/homeSearch.html?_eventId=getLot&execution=e46s1&lotId=34305743&returnPage=SEARCH_RESULTS

 

Someone seems to have gone into an even bigger ditch than i did:

http://www.copart.co.uk/c2/homeSearch.html?_eventId=getLot&execution=e47s1&lotId=33981373&returnPage=SEARCH_RESULTS

[Gambit]

That was for sure a big ditch ;)

And for that price I think is a bargain as a fixer upper for off road use :) 

[farmerpug]

It looks like subaru strengthened the area above the passenger compartment, the boot area has caved in completely but over the back seats still looks like it would have been safe enough to sit there.

 

The green forester wouldn't be too bad a car. get a bit of Mot on it, tax it and sell it on,

there could be a bit of profit especially if it snows.