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This past Friday I was on my way to have lunch with a friend of mine. I had just pulled into a exit only lane when the car in front of me swerved very hard around a large black trash bag full of trash. By the time I saw what was happening it was to late to swerve around it so I hit it right between the tires.

Shortly after I hit it I started to hear bad noises. I was on the exit ramp by now so I pulled over and stopped. I went around my Jeep, looked under it but didn't see anything. Being several hundred feet from my friends office I drove slowly still hearing the bad noise and parked it.

I asked my friend Karl for some boxes to lay down so I could look underneath the Jeep. What I saw was the black garbage bag wrapped around my drive shaft going from the front U-joint to the rear differential. I saw oil leaking from the differential. Thats not good. I managed to tear/cut the bag off the drive shaft till I was at the point when the drive shaft went into the differential. I started to remove that bit of plastic and oil just started to run out. I decided to leave the plastic bag in place to keep it from leaking oil so badly. I put one of the boxes under it to soak up the oil.

Well we walked to get some lunch, Karl had to get back to work soon. After we got back to the office I called my insurance because I had free towing. They came and pick up the Jeep and I and went to an auto repair place down the street from where I lived.

I told them what happened and they said they would check it out. They call me back later and told me that the plastic bag had gone inside the differential when they opened it up to look at it. They never saw anything like this before. That plastic bag cost me $176 in repairs.

Picked up my Jeep Saturday and all was good.

JefferyS