Busted Bumper

[Jenn]

So all you good Subaru folk...

I just had a moment on i57 south in illinois where i ran over what must have been a bumper that fell off a semi. I had a car to my left and could not swerve to miss the thing in the road. I ran over it. It busted into pieces and damaged what must be part of my bumper and front under carriage. Its plastic. It makes some noise but I can drive. What do you think ? I think it's just part of the bumper undercarriage. I'm going to try to drive and secure it with bunngies or tape and keep on driving to nashville. Whoof.

 

[SethB]

Zip ties last longer, I had to do something similar on a wheel well plastic liner. Big zip ties can be chained together in circlet or zipped together one to another for longer spans.

Wire coat hangers can really last a long time, you need pliers to “tie” them by putting 4 or twists in two ends.

 

[TheSongDogHouse]

Late reply but I think good plan, you'll be fine if you can secure them in place.

Not a subie guy but
"Looks like"
these are both plastic trim pieces for undercarriage airflow you can zip tie until you get to a repair shop.

Had to do same once on a front air dam on my alltrack after driving over an unmarked under construction section and the BUMP popped off a useless shiny bit of trim that connects air dam to the lower radiator.

The air dam stayed up until slowing and then started to grind the pavement... "Self, thats not good" I says to myself...and

like you pinned by traffic at 80mph on I5 south surrounded by semis and people pulling sand toys back from Moab...so I got off when I could and

Laying on my side on bits of cacti and gravel on the "Snowflake" exit ...(dont you love those wacky Utah names)

in 1-5 degree heat...a bit of baling wire twisted on with my leather-man...held it on.

Had to stop in the next town's DQ to rehydrate and finish the job...with now Mandatory in the recovery kit:
Big zip ties collection and duct tape...

 

[Jenn]

Late reply but I think good plan, you'll be fine if you can secure them in place.

Not a subie guy but
"Looks like"
these are both plastic trim pieces for undercarriage airflow you can zip tie until you get to a repair shop.

Had to do same once on a front air dam on my alltrack after driving over an unmarked under construction section and the BUMP popped off a useless shiny bit of trim that connects air dam to the lower radiator.

The air dam stayed up until slowing and then started to grind the pavement... "Self, thats not good" I says to myself...and

like you pinned by traffic at 80mph on I5 south surrounded by semis and people pulling sand toys back from Moab...so I got off when I could and

Laying on my side on bits of cacti and gravel on the "Snowflake" exit ...(dont you love those wacky Utah names)

in 1-5 degree heat...a bit of baling wire twisted on with my leather-man...held it on.

Had to stop in the next town's DQ to rehydrate and finish the job...with now Mandatory in the recovery kit:
Big zip ties collection and duct tape...

Thank you both!
I have carried my car repair kit around for hundreds of miles. For this trip, with out the teardrop, i took that bin out of the car. Lesson learned.

I finally determined that it would drag up to about 45mph and then by 65ish it wasn't dragging but what a darn lot if noise when it did. Finally got into a car shop in our nashville neighborhood and the man laughed, laid down in front to the car and began ripping the thing off. Its what you said, a dust heat protector for under the front. He said I dont need it but if I bought one on Amazon and brought it in he'd put it on the car. He said he rips broken ones off cars all the time. So...that was more excitement then I wanted today.

I did go into a BP gas station looking for duct tape, bungies, and zip ties. Strangely they had nothing.

Great story SongDog. Much appreciated.

SethB..thank you sir.