[ds968]

As as I was waiting at a stop light today, across the intersection and straight in the middle of the lane on which I would have driven there was a small plastic bag just laying on the concrete, so after I took off I made a  wide evasive  maneuver around it.  The car in the lane next to me, which was a Ferrari drove up at the following stop light, beeped his horn and opened the window ; so I obliged to see what he has to say ...which was, with a huge grin,  :  you went around that little bag as if it was a stroller with a baby in it.. I responded in kind and informed him that it's a lot easier to clean blood stains from the undercarriage of the car than to deal with the horrible stinking smell that melting plastic getting stuck on a hot exhaust causes, and which lasts for days on end..   

 

 Apparently he never had a plastic bag attach itself to his exhaust .,. I have , three or four times, and I avoid them like the plague..     and yes, i would avoid a stroller just the same    :lol:              

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[MCL968]

Was this in the Maserati or the 968?

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[ds968]

Maserati - both pretty low to the ground though , and I have the 968 lowered from stock height already .   The plastic bags I caught  have been in the 968.   

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[Rap]

You’ve cleaned blood stains off your undercarriage? Perhaps there is much more substance to you than I thought!

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[ds968]

Youve cleaned blood stains off your undercarriage? Perhaps there is much more substance to you than I thought!

No, just from the Maserati trunk, when I bough the car used ( it's an Italian car after all...). :-0 :;-)



As for the plastic bags that I "caught" with the 968 , nothing except using sandpaper on the exhaust pipe got that mess off the following morning, and even without any visible residue left it still smelled for about an hour when driving the car

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[968Syncro]

I don't believe it.   How could there possibly be a plastic bag in the road?  By definition it is not possible.   California outlawed free plastic bags from grocery stores, and you have to pay a ten-cent tax for each bag now.  And that was supposed to save the penguins in Antarctica.  Do you mean that this powerful law passed by the government isn't perfect?  Didn't government solve the problem with additional laws and additional income for the government?

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[ds968]

I don't believe it.   How could there possibly be a plastic bag in the road?  By definition it is not possible.   California outlawed free plastic bags from grocery stores, and you have to pay a ten-cent tax for each bag now.  And that was supposed to save the penguins in Antarctica.  Do you mean that this powerful law passed by the government isn't perfect?  Didn't government solve the problem with additional laws and additional income for the government?

 LOL, in theory yes, in practice not even close - lots of grocery stores  ( at least half I'd say..) at least up here in , ironically, uber-liberal Northern California  still offer plastic bags, practically every single drugstore in the state ( especially CVS ) still have those flimsy small plastic bags which are what seem to end up on the road most of the time , hardware stores still have a bunch of them, so we'll see how the new ban on plastic straws pans out..  but surprisingly styrofaom cups have vanished.

And yes, we need more new laws in this state, and paid focus groups to report to advisory committees formed for the purpose of providing sub-committees with the info to be subsequently funneled to real committees who advise legislators what new measures to introduce.   And idiot me, I was wondering where all my state income taxes go....             

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[Rap]

Ca. laws.   Oxymoron? You poor bastards and all your laws. Here in Pa. people throw their garbage and refuse on the side of the road. Capitalism at its best. why pay a hauler or a trash collector?Need a new coach? Don't go to a store and pay the man plus a tax. Look on the roadside. Need a new body part. Look on the roadside. Need to get rid of used oil. Dump it down a bore hole. It eventually goes into the Chesapeake bay and disappears into the ocean. Every store offers plastic bags and I must confess I do not see a lot of them on the road. That's because Pennsylvanians are green.

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[Langley968]

A few weeks ago I was towing our camping trailer with the wife's Tiguan and I saw a plastic bag drifting in an intersection. Tried to avoid it, but the lane beside me was occupied! A few moments later my wife tells me that she thinks I am pushing her vehicle too hard because there was a smell of something burning! It was that darn bag melting on the exhaust! Took over two hours of driving for the smell to be gone...

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