Think someone cursed my car.

[Hollow]

Known history:

-Original owner replaced rear bumper after being hit in parking lot.

Since I have owned it:

-Had the front bumper backed into hard enough by classic Chicago Park By Touch(trademark pending) to require the front plate be taken off and bent back into shape. This also broke a few of the plastic push pins that hold the bumper on and generally scuffed it up.

-Rear bumper hit while parked on street, causing several hundred dollars of repair/repaint (estimate). Before that was even fixed...

-Rear ended on way to work. Required another new bumper and straightening of bumper supports. This was in January.

-Rear ended on way to work. Same highway. Will need another another new bumper and probably supports straightened, again. This happened today.


Seriously?! This will be the 4th rear bumper for this car. And I haven't bothered with replacing the front one yet...at this rate I'm waiting until I move out of Chicago. I think I need a priest/auto-exorcist/somebody...there appears to be bulls eyes all over my poor Subaru.

 

[chubbs1]

Man, you have some bad luck. OTOH at least you are OK!

 

[The_Jed]

Driving in Chicago SUCKS!!!

 

[Hollow]

Originally Posted By: The_Jed
Driving in Chicago SUCKS!!!

Tell me about it. Can't wait to leave in a few years.

 

[RiceCake]

Yeah, your car is cursed: its in Chicago; lol.

 

[Barkleymut]

You live in the 3rd largest city in the country with the dumbest population in the world. What did you expect?

 

[Hollow]

Originally Posted By: dcf
Take the Obama bumper sticker off and everything should be fine.

Nice assumption there. You know what assuming does, right?

Originally Posted By: Barkleymut
You live in the 3rd largest city in the country with the dumbest population in the world. What did you expect?


Thank you for your kind words of insight.

 

[bourne]

dude, I totally understand your pain. I just got back from Chicago and the driving there is a nightmare ! No one uses turn signals, everyone rides your bumper and people randomly brake in the middle of a fast lane to swerve all the way to the right because they needed to get off on that exit. 90% drive 20~25 mph over, 5% at speed limit and 5% below. So all you see are cars swerving around each other to get ahead, only to slam on their brakes and then floor it again. I am so HAPPY to be back in Indiana lol.


P.S. : Roads in chicago make moon's surface look like a freshly paved highway.

 

[ram_man]

Went on vacation in chicago took a cab that was a prius. The way he drove swerving and all that prius felt quick. Ive driven muscle cars big trucks ect but that prius made me almost soil myself.

 

[daves87rs]

Originally Posted By: ram_man
Went on vacation in chicago took a cab that was a prius. The way he drove swerving and all that prius felt quick. Ive driven muscle cars big trucks ect but that prius made me almost soil myself.

 

[The_Jeff]

Get a trailer ball, maybe one for the front too.

It will at least spear the vehicle doing the assault.

My wife's been in three accidents over the last ten years: all rear end bumper thumpers, all jerks on cell phones.

 

[NHGUY]

I thought once you bought a Subaru,you were supposed to "Feel the love"....I guess nobody else around you is feeling it..

 

[Hollow]

Oh no...too many people are feeling my car. That's the problem.

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: Hollow
Oh no...too many people are feeling my car. That's the problem.

-change oil at 3K
-do it twice in the same day to break the odds
-change the highway lane you usually drive
-drive "truckish"-style (some extra space in front of you). people will go around you, in front of you and maybe NOT into you.
-do a lot of hand/arms waving in the car while driving. people will go around you or keep a thoughtful distance

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Hollow

Three rear end collsions?

Have you ever taken notice that you have Sudden Stopper Syndrome and don't even realize it?
Were sudden stops by you related to any of those rear end collisions?

Also, are you the guy that touches his brakes 100 times in a five block distance -- setting off the brake lights 100 times? There are many drivers behind such vehicles that will not leave more space between the vehicles, but actually tailgate the guy constantly applying his brakes.

Are you one of those 'brake happy" guys?

Just trying to find a correlation on why you been hit in the rear-end so many times.

 

[Hollow]

Two of those are me. The first was someone backing into it when the previous owner had it.

But no, I'm not a Sudden Stopper...except when all traffic comes to a sudden halt. Which means, roughly every day multiple times during my commute.

Chicago traffic is of Hades, there are far more vehicles on the roadways than they were designed for. You can be hard pressed to drive for any length of time and not see a vehicle with either minor front or rear damage from street parking and minor traffic accidents. If public transit could get me from my apartment to my workplace, I would take it.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

OK
Hope your luck changes.

 

[Schmoe]

You need to get it blessed by a Medicine Man.....LOL