something stuck under my Z
 

So this morning while driving to school, I went over what seemed like a rope plastic bag or something close to that. I did not react quick enough to maneuver around it, so I drove over it. Couple seconds later, I hear like some clicking sounds coming from the rear of the car. I was like..**** oh great. I was right next to the parking lot at school, so I just carried on slowly and parked.

When class was over, I decided I was going to take the Z to the nearest dealership..which was about 12 miles away. However, the clicking noise continued as I began to drive. It was like a repeating clunk/click noise coming from the rear. At this point, I had already taken a quick look and verified that something was indeed stuck behind my Z. ( I didn't know what it was stuck to, I lack basic knowledge of car parts LOL).

The noise continued as I was exiting the school parking lot. I was moving at around 20 MPH tops, as the noise would get louder if I tried to go any faster. I drove about half a mile..probably less where I pulled over to the side of the street because I was scared that I would damage the car or something due to the noise it was producing. Lucky for me..there was a shop right next to the street which I had pulled over. I decided **** it, I will just stop here and see if they can help me out.

I pull in with the rear still producing noise, and I park. I talked the guy real quick, told him I had something stuck in the rear. He told me to pull my car up and that they were going to lift it and check it out real quick. When they lift my car, there was like this rope thing stuck on what he told me was the driving shaft...IT was a lot of rope ( Look at pic for reference) I was like O.o wtf!!!!!

The two mechanics started to cut it off slowly for about 5 minutes before they took all of it out. I guess it was wrapped around that, + the rear diff? that's what he said..
He also said if I kept driving a bit more, I would have been screwed.
I drove away, and everything seems fine now..
Today was a really bad morning :mad:


Anyone else experience something similar?

You're lucky it was only a rope. One time, I had a hooker stuck under my car

lol... halloween decoration maybe?

good to hear you got it taken care.

Remember to your hookers man!

Dang thats crazy. I had a grocery bag melt onto my exhaust once and i carried that around for few weeks before getting under and ripping it off.

haha! It's funny..the guys that took it out were like, here you go..you can use this as your halloween costume lol

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Nothing worse than a hooker getting stuck wrapped around your driveshaft :shakes head:

glad it wasn't anything worse.

2xtreme1 - Sorry to hear that happened. I hope the shop you took it to also gave you a fair price for the labor.

Crazy man! Must have hit it in that perfect (not so perfect) spot. Glad you stopped when you did

I thought it was going to be a body of some animal or something gruesome.


Still, that sucks. I fear hitting a plastic back and it sticking to the front of my grille. :eekdance:

Yeah... Fücks with your sprung AND unsprung weight

When I was passing through NM on my way from TX to CA I saw a piece of a newspaper sheet, and I had a hunch that I nailed it square and it was in front of the radiator. I was lazy so I didn't check immediately, but I knew to just look at my oil temps. After it raised about 20 degrees, I got out and saw that in fact the newspaper was blocking it... :shakes head:

I had that happen in my SRT in the Summer... Damn thing got hot. :eek: