Kin pheasants!
Kin pheasants!
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phelix

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4,654 posts

275 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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pheasant vs E60 wing mirror. pheasant makes the ultimate sacrifice but takes lower mirror cover (£100) and mirror glass (£300) with it.

leeson660

429 posts

191 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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They are big heavy birds!

We hit one at about 100 leptons on our way up to Bristol in my boss's Vito, nearly came right through the wind screen it was a massive impact he did well to keep cool and keep the Merc straight and not hit the brakes.

I was still pulling glass out of my body 2 weeks later smile

ecain63

10,646 posts

201 months

Wednesday 4th April 2012
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I remember hitting a pheasant whilst hooning my old 205 GTi6 track car in scotland a few years back. Hit it at some naughty speed too. Wrote off the front bumper, cooler and cracked the Viper induction kit id just fitted @ £250 notes. Bloody pheasant picked itslef up and hobbled off into the bushes.

On that note me and my co-driver hit a seagull at 175mph whilst testing our Grp N Escort Cosworth in 2004. That went through the front grill and destroyed most of the hoses and light plastics under the bonnet as well as strving the engine of coolant and fuel. And it bloody stank to high heaven. Took us 3 months to repair all the damage.

Cannot black-cat this though: 140mph, 100lb deer and BMW do not mix!


nick lewis

37 posts

246 months

Wednesday 4th April 2012
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DriverNo1

178 posts

180 months

Thursday 5th April 2012
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Sorry to hear about your M5 mate. One of my all time favorite cars too. I've never hit a pheasant myself but they sure can do a lot of damage. There seems to be an invasion of them just now shoot

gaz1234

5,233 posts

245 months