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Driving along a quiet motorway, near home, at 1am.....mellow mood so not caning it, just cruising at an indicated 75.
In lane one, no other traffic around.......tum te tum te tum te.....DEER! Smack. It was that quick, didn't even have a chance to lift off, let alone have time to brake.
Fortunately, it was a small roe deer, those ones about the size of a Labrador dog. Deer basically explodes, nothing recognisable left, apart from devastation of blood and guts. Radiator immediately obliterated, coolant everywhere. Recovery home.
Post mortum reveals damage not too bad, and obviously I'm thankful that I wasn't injured, and that the car wasn't knocked into some hideous spin, or worse. I was able to just brake and come to a safe stop. I now have a new radiator, condensor and radiator fan ready to go on, and the damage to the metal front panelwork was fairly easily straightened out. I've even managed to save the plastic bumper, by heating up the huge creases with a blowtorch and popping them back out. A bit of paint has flaked off, but it's patched up well enough to go back on and make the car driveable. I'm so skint, it will have to do!
Pic below - that's after all Bambi's guts have been pressure washed off!
In lane one, no other traffic around.......tum te tum te tum te.....DEER! Smack. It was that quick, didn't even have a chance to lift off, let alone have time to brake.
Fortunately, it was a small roe deer, those ones about the size of a Labrador dog. Deer basically explodes, nothing recognisable left, apart from devastation of blood and guts. Radiator immediately obliterated, coolant everywhere. Recovery home.
Post mortum reveals damage not too bad, and obviously I'm thankful that I wasn't injured, and that the car wasn't knocked into some hideous spin, or worse. I was able to just brake and come to a safe stop. I now have a new radiator, condensor and radiator fan ready to go on, and the damage to the metal front panelwork was fairly easily straightened out. I've even managed to save the plastic bumper, by heating up the huge creases with a blowtorch and popping them back out. A bit of paint has flaked off, but it's patched up well enough to go back on and make the car driveable. I'm so skint, it will have to do!
Pic below - that's after all Bambi's guts have been pressure washed off!
castex said:
Frio3535 said:
Joining the A9, went up onto some grass on the slip, lost control, span 180° degree across the duel carriageway and into the wire railings at 50mph. Written off, gutted. Car had only done low 50's mileage and will be missed.
castex said:
On the phone, having sex or massively pissed?
Worse ways to go......http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/son-o...
vinnie01 said:
Did you purchase it back and rebuild it or was there alot of unseen damage?
no, it went through Copart and sold to a euro buyer for £23K. It would of been bodged back together as the online buyer wouldn't of been aware ofthe actual damage or cost to repair
the repair list was huge major things were a dinked chassis, cracked roof,bonnet,door,front and rear wings, busted side window and front screen and surround, the passenger door pushed onto the dash plastics and damage occured all the way across to the drivers side
a £12K magnesium bonded in panel behind the dash was split.
Was quite gutting as only a few in the UK, and it was a real minter
Edited by Viper on Sunday 20th September 17:58
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