So the tailpipe on my car had rusted through back by the muffler but I had decided to let it go for a while because I wasn't in the mood or financial standings to have it replaced. It was a little bit loud because the air was escaping the exhaust system in the wrong place, but not unbearable.
Well, last weekend, I went for about a hundred mile road trip. And while I was driving on the Inter State the problem got worse, because the rusted hole in the pipe turned into a complete detachment from the muffler and the pipe started to drag on the ground. Yea, cool, I know. You might say I was lookin' pretty awesome. But the fun doesn't stop there. I stopped on an exit ramp to try and tie it back up to the car with a key chain lanyard because... that was all I had. FAIL. Apparently my tie job was severely insufficient, because I could soon, again, hear the jingle of dragging metal back on ground. Luckily though, I managed to reach my destination without further complications.
Then, as my friends and I were leaving to go tailgating, we decided to take my poor car because his car had the same problem as mine did and was louder (at the time) and her car had little to no gas. Her family would be taking their suv but needed to follow me to get to the stadium parking lot. So we doubled back around the block to get into the alley where they were parked so we could have them follow us. And as I turned into the ally there was an explosion of sound and all of the sudden, under the new extremely loud sound of my exhaust-less engine we could hear my entire tailpipe dragging along the roughly paved ally. NOW, I swear that the car can be heard from two blocks away just while idling, and five blocks when I give it gas to accelerate. It seems to sound like an old tractor which makes sense because they sort of have a lack of exhaust systems. oh, and the funny thing is that the muffler is still attached to the car and can be seen from the rear as if there were a working exhaust system.
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