…I’d say my AW11 is a lady a bitch.
I found this by accident. 😀
We’ve been working with both of our Subarus lately (considering starting a new blog) and I haven’t paid that much attention to my AW11. I think the car was sitting in Widrics yard at least a month and seems it was jealous about the attention what the subarus were getting.
Then one evening, me and Widric went to a drive. Things escalated quickly and we went into a big parking lot in the middle of night and tore some rubber off my tires 😀 I didnt notice anything wrong with the car and left the car again in front of Widrics house.
A week later, when I was leaving Widrics driveway I noticed that something was wrong with the car. It made the most horrendous clunking noise ever. Turned out the drivers side shock top nut was loose! No idea how that could have happened, the top nut had been tightened ages ago and the car had sat untouched for the whole time.
Couple of days later my AW11 really told me to take better care of her, again with a loose nut. I was leaving a gas station and to match the traffic speed I accelerated pretty quickly off ramp. Then something hit the underside of the car maybe three or four times and from the rear view mirror I saw something shiny bouncing on the road. The car was running perfect, no warning lights and all gauges were at normal. I took the next exit, parked the car and went to look if I could find the thing I saw. I was pretty certain that I just drove over some debris on the road but I had to be sure.
I found the the thing and it looked so much like a serpentine belt idler from toyota that I started to think that this is the weirdest thing ever. What are the odds to drive over a similar idler that I have in my car? I went back to my AW11 and opened the hood. Both belts there and everything was good.
…and then I noticed that the idler from SC/WP belt was missing. The belt was there, maybe bit loose, but it was still running the water pump! 😀
Luckily, I had a spare. I found out that I still had one spare idler from the spare engine I bought some time ago, but we visited most of the auto parts stores in the town with Widric until remembered that I had a spare.
The one that flew off the car was not round anymore and it took me maybe 20 minutes to put the spare in. I wonder how the nut holding the idler was loose…
I’ll have to quote Dr. McCoy from Star Trek here:
“”You treat her like a lady, and she’ll always bring you home.“” (TNG: “”Encounter at Farpoint””)
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