Dont run over a bed mattress

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Someone sent me this in an e-mail.

Subject: Driveline Vibration Issue

This guy ran over a mattress and decided to keep going. The ensuing jumble finally whipped around enough to put a tear in the gas tank, the subsequent lack of fuel is what finally brought this vehicle to its knees.

It had still managed to drive 30 more miles decently with a 60lb tangle wrapped around the driveshaft.

This genius complained that the vehicle had a "shimmy" when driving at high speeds.

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ONe of my son's friends hit a couch in the road and it damn near killed her.
 
Why didn't they pull over and have a look. It's mindboggling. I get frustrated when a carrier bag sticks to my exhaust and I can smell the burning through the interior fans.
 
A shimmy at high speeds???? What about the horrendus scraping, squealing,screaming sound from under the car??? Oh of course, any sounds that are not easily diagnosed, always are fixed with stereo volume. NOT!!
 
How the bloody hell do you run over a mattress anyway?! Is a mattress something different in the US?
 
Moglet
How the bloody hell do you run over a mattress anyway?!
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Weird thing happen when you are going 90mph with one tied to your roof. :lol:
Moglet
Is a mattress something different in the US?
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Unlike a lot of things, I'm guessing not.
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Moglet
How the bloody hell do you run over a mattress anyway?! Is a mattress something different in the US?
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Looking at the pictures it's a truck that's driven over it. Probably wouldn't even notice it normally.
 
Maybe he thought it was one of those Swedish foam ones and he was trying to make Clarkson's Toyota that made it across the Channel.

Why are we spending so much money on things like these when it would be so much easier and cheaper to drop a mattress in the middle of the street?
 
I've seen worse, just coming out of Napa Valley we saw a newer Volvo S60 (maybe ?) that'd hit a mattress in the road.
Not big enough to go over it, the mattress got caught in the front wheel arches, caught fire from it's proximity to the hot engine parts and torched the front end of the car by the time the fire crews arrived. :scared:
 
Are mattresses on the road a big problem in the states? If so, you need to address the problem, not just lie down and accept it. Spring into action.
 
Sorry to crash into this thread folks - I wouldn't have been able to sleep if I didn't lay down my thoughts on this.

I'd say that mattresses and roads make very poor bedfellows. I'd suggest a king-sized solution for this problem.
 
daan
Are mattresses on the road a big problem in the states? If so, you need to address the problem, not just lie down and accept it. Spring into action.
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Your proposal seems sound, but we'll have to sleep on it for a while.
 
daan
Are mattresses on the road a big problem in the states? If so, you need to address the problem, not just lie down and accept it. Spring into action.
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Oh would you just lay down with all of your Scottish superiority? I don't know how you sleep at night. There may be a cushion of water between us, but that doesn't mean you can jump up and down giggling at our softer offerings. If you have to, be firm and supportive of our actions.
 
that looks like quite the nightmare! i bet he cant sleep for a week now.
 
Moglet
How the bloody hell do you run over a mattress anyway?! Is a mattress something different in the US?
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TB
Weird thing happen when you are going 90mph with one tied to your roof. :lol:
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Even in pickups, they usually fall from the truckbed.
 
TheCracker
I can understand running over a mattress - but hitting a couch? :odd:
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They were rollling down the freeway at a good clip and the couch fell off a truck that was in front of them.
They really had no place to go...
Traffic on one side, ditch on the other.
I guess the couch was the least of all available evils.

So new rule:
While it's best to keep drunks and fools in front of you, where they are easily observed,
If you can get around them, do so as safely as possible, then put much distance between you and fool.
 
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