Post up your wheeling OOPs moment... Photos highly recommended**

 

I will get it started.....

 

I don't have a photo... Imagine your photo except a red sedan in a mud puddle.

I told my cousin if he took a cell pic I'd rim him over if I ever got my engine un-hydrolocked...

kinda slid into this ditch

 

 

 

 

D-90 pulled me out

 

snow wheeling.

 

and both of us are stuck.

I don't have a photo... Imagine your photo except a red sedan in a mud puddle.

I told my cousin if he took a cell pic I'd rim him over if I ever got my engine un-hydrolocked...

Not mine but it was one of our trips

 

 

 

One trip our rescue car

 

 

cant tell but one nanosecond after this Blu tore his back bumper

wow... what's the story behind those shots?

 

the first picture....holy wheel batman.... lol

Only real oops I have with my Outback or any Subi yet. Went too slow as I didn't want to take out my oil filter and still don't have a skid plate yet.

I saw this rock and thought it was a mud mound and drove right over it... stopped the car... had to throw it in reverse and still couldnt move, had to put it in 4LO (from 4HI) and power through it.. very loud scraping... and I uprooted the rock as you can see. Its a good size rock... Its at least 3 times as wide as my tire treads.

 

 

It was still a great day... had a lot of fun... I am terrible at taking pictures... this hill is pretty awesome... but looks lame from the top

 

Edited January 13, 201214 yr by 92_rugby_subie

 

 

okay, this doesn't look so bad, except when these are foot trails in a local park and you get a $500 fine.

 

 

yeah, i learned my lesson, don't flame me, the park district already did it to my wallet.

Here is said rock that rugby subie ran into.

 

 

Here is said rock that rugby subie ran into.

 

Anybody can take their non-sube suv and do that.

Rugby is at stock ride height and wheel size.

It looks so small under those tires... Not so small when I hit it

Anybody can take their non-sube suv and do that.

Rugby is at stock ride height and wheel size.

 

I know, im just messin with rugby, he is one of my best friends.

This was a very cold and crappy afternoon. To put it into perspective I had a 6 in lift and 29inch tires on this bugger, well an EJ too but that's a different story. Once we (monstaru and I) got it out, I drained the oil, put new oil in, and drove it home...with no issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 17, 201214 yr by Mugs

Another titanic moment

 

Looks like someone has cold hands from hooking up that tow strap...

Lesson to take from this picture, hook up the tow straps and secure them before playing Titanic

broke a ball joint crawling up a creek bed. broke a ball joint and it rotated the knuckle all around breaking it off the strut, bending the steering, and pissing my brake fluid.

 

 

Never fear though! I just drove it to where the tow truck would pick me up...... ~15 miles away........

 

 

That was when I got back onto the road. about 5 miles was gravel/creek bed, then the rest was a highway. I wonder what kinda ticket I would have gotten if I were pulled over...?

bent a strut rod after hitting a rock , slid off the offcamber slope into it..

I straightened it out with a 4lb hammer on a boulder and then used the winch to pull everything back in place..I drove it out and back home..

I welded them up w/angle iron and always carry a spare now..

 

 

The winch paid for itself that day...

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm... that looks pretty familiar.....

 

On another note, here's mine:

 

The pic doesn't do justice to how precarious this was, I desperately needed a spotter to back down safely. I just remember calling out "HELLLLLLLP! on the CB.

awesome nice pictures guys

Another titanic moment

 

I was with a friend when he did that with his WRX. I told him the ruts were pretty deep under the pond and it was stupid idea. Well, he went for it and got high centered in the ruts while under water. The computer is down on the floor and it shut down the engine when it submerged, and after we dragged the car out it still wouldn't start. I took the computer out and apart, washed the mud off the board in a sparking mountain stream, dried it on the dash of my truck and it fired back up. A couple traces were burnt off the board though and it hasn't been quite the same since.

 

With my loyale, I used to have to wait for the floorpans to fill with water so it would sink and grab traction. Much better to have the computer tucked up under the dash than down on the floor.