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    Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
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    Image of Daniel Rutter Daniel Rutter
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    Reminds me of this learner-truck-driver story.
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    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    12/11/08

    @Daniel Rutter:


    I've done that many times with tire treads and other small objects, but never anything like that.


    Great story, thanks for the link.

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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    I was driving down the highway one dark, rainy and lonely night...


    I was driving a 1978 4WD Suburban and the cars in front of me parted and I hit a spare tire on a rim at about 65. The Suburban jumped about a foot in the air and landed okay but it shimmied a bit after that. It had no structural rigidity anyway.


    6000 pound truck and it hopped. Not cool.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/10/08

    @mytdawg: No. Very cool. I'd pay to see that.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    I had no idea that kind of crap was in a mattress. So pretty soon people will be scavenging them for the metal?


    And why is it that a mattress is your best friend...but once they are in the wild they become the most repulsive and disgusting things ever.


    Actually, the guy did us a favor. No doubt this was Zem:


    "No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their

    lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures

    which live quiet private lives in the marshes of Squornshellous

    Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped

    out and slept on. None of them seem to mind and all of them are

    called Zem."

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    Image of thunder; now eta-powered thunder; now eta-powered
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    I used to work with a lady who took her car into the dealer because "it was making a funny noise." They took the front wheel off and pulled out an orange highway cone. Full size. "I thought I missed that one last week."


    If doing that wasn't blonde enough, she then came back to work and told everybody about it. Yeah; we all got a good laugh out of that.

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    Guy had to drive over the mattress. No way it would fit inside.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    so what do you think would have been the easiest fix, untangling / cutting all the mattress wire. or just chainsawing off the drive shaft then fixing what ever other crap you just cut by accident?
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    Image of Maxx Craves: Maxx Craves:
    12/10/08

    @damnelantra™: Cost of a new drive shaft + labor to replace VS. untold number of labor hours to cut out the matress. Hmmm.. sounds like I'm getting a new drive shaft. Someone bring me a Huskvarna and a Sawz-ALL.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/10/08

    @Maxxofor: You could probably unbolt the shaft at the yoke and just slide the whole mess off like cotton candy.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    12/10/08

    @Maxxofor: A Husqvarna what? They make lots of things from dirt bikes to sewing machines, including chainsaws and vacuum cleaners.
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    Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. was starred Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. was unstarred
    Image of Naturally Exasperated shaves his legs. It's just common courtesy. Naturally Exasperated shaves his legs. It's just common courtesy.
    12/11/08

    @Mike the Dog: A sewing machine! Duh.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    12/11/08

    @SATYRICON formerly Naturally Exasperated: I must be particularly dense today, because I don't get it.
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    Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. was starred Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. was unstarred
    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    Lucky it wasn't a Tempurpedic...the Jeep would have been totalled. And the person in the bed wouldn't have even woken up.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    Shimmy shimmy Serta stuff

    shimmy shimmy shake!
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    I wonder if it will run once you cut that stuff off and replace the gas tank.


    And are all those guys really porn stars?

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    Image of BTLFED BTLFED
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    Hilarious and I totally believe it. Selling parts at an Infiniti dealership, I see some very strange stuff. The two weirdest things I have seen was an FX35 with 20s that "Ran over something in the road and now tire is flat." Who knows what they ran over, but you could stick an entire fist through the hole in the WHEEL.


    The second one was a customer that brought in a G35 with a smashed front end, and when I looked down into the fenderwell there were two whiffle balls on the splash shield. Did they hit some kids playing? A ball pit? Both? Who knows!

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/10/08

    @BTLFED: Never said that Infiniti owners had all their marbles left.
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    Image of rad180 rad180
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    And I get nervous if I don't see the plastic bag that I just ran over show up in the rear view mirror. I mean, who wants to be the guy driving around with a plastic bag in their grill?
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    12/10/08

    @rad180: I once ran over a plasic bag and it got wound around my brake rotor and nearly caught on fire. I had to remove the wheel to get it out of there.


    *caution, dangerous to infants and people in cars*

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    Image of zsvdkhnorc hates when Jalopnik gets political zsvdkhnorc hates when Jalopnik gets political
    12/10/08

    @rad180: I ran over one in my fiancee's car. Five miles later I began to smell something burning. I crawled under the car and had to pull what I could of the melted bag off of the exhaust pipe. The car smelled for months every time it got up to temp. I think it's all burned off now, though.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    12/10/08

    @zsvdkhnorc: I hit a turkey the summer before last, he basically deposited all of his organs and most of his rib cage in my headlight housing, the rest was just feathers and pink mist.


    My car still smells a bit like thanksgiving once it is warm...

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/10/08

    @rad180: When I was a tire monkey, a lady came in complaining about about a weird noise coming from the front end at speed.


    Sure enough, there was a trash bag on one of her wishbones.


    Used to find a lot of dead birds in cavities of the front ends of cars, too.

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    12/10/08

    In reply to Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain
    Coil springs on a Jeep? POSEUR!
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