I ran over a plastic bucket with my car? What should I check for?

Question

I was going about 60 mph on the freeway and a plastic bucket went through underneath my car? I did a quick visual check underneath and I found no broken things or leaks. The car is running fine (no funny noises). Do I need to bring it into a shop. I drive a Saturn VUE, 4 wheel drive.

Answer 1

I hope you checked to make sure the plastic bucket was

dead before you left it.

Answer 2

Just check for leaking like you did. But the undercarriage should be tuff enough to protect it from a plastic bucket. Plus the Vue is higher up so it probably didn't do anything.  Just keep an eye on it for a couple days but no I don't think you need to take it in.

Answer 3

Take to a shop and let them put it up on a lift for you so that you can make sure that nothing was damaged like the cv joint boots and so on.