BANANA SPLIT

[agpthng]

EDITED: Yesterday, took it to a local Jeep shop and got a 2nd hand fog light and bracket. It's all good now. Except now I have to have front and rear brakes done. UGH! I made this post not for advice on what to do about the fog light or replacing a bumper. Just a story of what happened that is one in a million shot.

Ok so about a week ago I was driving home, and was passing a vehicle in the truck lanes when a truck going the opposite direction threw something out of his driver's window. It hit me, wasn't sure where or what it was. I noticed that the truck was full of split stove length wood and thought I hope one of those didn't come out, but I would've felt it harder. I basically noticed the type of vehicle, the color and that was it as I was passing a car. I was like ok where is that car that I was passing cause I was thinking of turn around and chasing down the truck for a plate number and then too many cars were behind him to make a safe turn. I'll just wait till I get home ( 1/2 mile away) to see what hit me. It was a damn banana, a whole banana that smashed my passenger side fog light, destroyed it and the bracket. I've been to the dealer now twice to get it replaced and they didnt realize that the assembly didn't come with a bracket which was also destroyed.

So my nickname until it's fixed is banana split. $400 at least for the cost.

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[Remorseless]

 

[whitechocolate]

 

[Zandcwhite]

My entire Bumper with led fog lights was under $400. Reminds me why I haven't been back to the dealer since the day I bought the JT over a year ago.

 

[zyt]

You can probably pick up a take off plastic bumper with fog lights for <$100, or upgrade to a steel bumper.

 

[autotragic]

Damn physics.

 

[agpthng]

Exactly!!

 

[agpthng]

You can probably pick up a take off plastic bumper with fog lights for <$100, or upgrade to a steel bumper.

lol that's what my son said - time for a steel bumper like I had on my JK. Not interested in spending that kind of money at the money, no disposable money. Just in disbelief that it happened.

 

[autotragic]

lol that's what my son said - time for a steel bumper like I had on my JK. Not interested in spending that kind of money at the money, no disposable money. Just in disbelief that it happened.

I mean that's like a one in a million shot.

 

[Remorseless]

I mean that's like a one in a million shot.

Yeah, had to hit the fog like dead center. What're the odds that a banana tossed from a moving vehicle would nail their Jeep square in the fog light.

 

[autotragic]

Yeah, had to hit the fog like dead center. What're the odds that a banana tossed from a moving vehicle would nail his Jeep square in the fog light.

Shit I don't know but I remember being a kid playing Mario kart and being told by the adults that that would never be useful and yet here I am and I've never had no banana take out my fog light...

 

[Heimkehr]

This is the sort of thread that I couldn't dream up even if I tried.

I'm sorry to read about this event, Banana Spl... er, Carol. I would seek out replacement parts from an auto salvage yard, or, barring that, put aside some lucre for an awesome steel bumper upgrade.

 

[agpthng]

Yeah, had to hit the fog like dead center. What're the odds that a banana tossed from a moving vehicle would nail their Jeep square in the fog light.

And yet it did! Crazy!

 

[ArcadeTracks]

Shit I don't know but I remember being a kid playing Mario kart and being told by the adults that that would never be useful and yet here I am and I've never had no banana take out my fog light...

I found video of the other driver for the OP

(Seriously sucks, though! Sorry it happened)

 

[Phrank]

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