Topic: Rockcrawling Subi... recovery.

[Jeffy]

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Recovery of abandoned Subaru.

The driver of the Subaru was racing his car on Forest Service Roads outside of Blackhawk/Alice. He turned down a steep section of road and the trail became much more difficult. The first picture in the video shows what he went down. A few hundred feet up the trail he had hit a rock with his oil pan and punctured it. He then went around a rocky section via bypass and nose dived into a rock (visible in the fourth picture, middle left). At that point he abandoned his vehicle. Over the next 2-3 weeks his stereo and racing seats were stolen.

Members of Colorado4x4.org and CTP (Colorado Trail Patrol) caught wind of this idiots actions and captured evidence of his actions, reported it to the local ranger district & sheriff, and recovered the vehicle.

It was recovered downward instead of upward because the exit (going down) was only 1-2 miles long, as opposed to the ~12 miles on the drive in.

The spilled oil was cleaned up, trash/car debris removed, and the illegal bypasses blocked off.

[neale_rs]

Why were the Subie tires spinning backward?

[jfrabat]

Why were the Subie tires spinning backward?

A more important question: What the HECK was that Subi doing there in the first place???

[Torch_Ind]

A more important question: What the HECK was that Subi doing there in the first place???

  honestly I feel this is a staged joke or beater car they just wanted to wreck

[grumpygy]

I don't care what they said it was in reverse.

[sharpxmen]

Why were the Subie tires spinning backward?

it's full time 4wd, it was in gear with a manual transmission (or maybe in park with an auto). When the front tires are moving forward the rear tires are moving backwards due to the inter axle diff, same as with the left/right tires on an axle, move one tire one way the other one would spin backwards.

I don't care what they said it was in reverse.

doesn't matter if it was revers or one of the forward gears - it was in gear (and there's no way to tell which one anyway).


I didn't get what they were trying to do though, was that subi abandoned in the woods or something? or did they went offroad with it and someone stripped it of seats and stereo and they went back to recover whatever was left?

[neale_rs]

it's full time 4wd, it was in gear with a manual transmission (or maybe in park with an auto). When the front tires are moving forward the rear tires are moving backwards due to the inter axle diff, same as with the left/right tires on an axle, move one tire one way the other one would spin backwards.

Thanks for the explanation.  Just to add a bit.  This happens with an open diff when the pinion is held at zero speed, which has to be the average of the speeds of the two wheels.  Also, the front axle would have to have more traction most of the time.  At one point, the front tire spins backward, which means the rear axle had more traction in that spot.  I guess he should have put it in neutral.