Author Topic: Grrrr roadkill damage!!!  (Read 2512 times)

Offline Tom H

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Re: Grrrr roadkill damage!!!
« Reply #10 on: 30 April 2007, 21:39 »
I went on a company go-kart racing thingy once, and on the way home my boss had a "spirited drive" alongside a moter bike in his shine new 911. A fox tried to cross the M25 right in front of him! BOOM BOOM! He said he was doing about 145 when he hit the breaks and thinks he hit the fox somewhere around the 110-120 mark - we were in a car behind (way behind) but when we met him just before the dartford tunnel we discovered that one of the legs had come off and the fur had spontaniously caught fire upon impact! Oh yeah, and the whole thing was wedged inside the big air inlet at the front! (luckily he had the normally aspirated one so the intakes mostly for show) I pulled it out while he suported himself over the crash barrier and tried not to throw up.

We found the next day when he came in that the fox had hit so hard to had totaly buckled the spare wheel - it was lucky he hit the thing dead centre on the car, all he needed was some cosmetic repairs to the front and a new spare wheel, if it'd been slightly to the left or right could've lost both my company directors...actualy maybe it was un-lucky?!

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Re: Grrrr roadkill damage!!!
« Reply #11 on: 01 May 2007, 10:27 »
i hit a pheasant too. feathers a plenty!

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Re: Grrrr roadkill damage!!!
« Reply #12 on: 01 May 2007, 12:50 »
Wahey had a call from the stealers earlier to say my shiny new front arch trims are ready to collect. Apparently the offside one I really needed was the last one in stock at the factory.

I have to say, just recently I've been ordering a lot of parts from my local VAG garage and I think a lot of people would be suprised how cheap some items actually are direct from a dealership.
My front arch trims were £25 each incl vat, from gsf they are £28 +VAT and that's for a pattern part!!!


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Re: Grrrr roadkill damage!!!
« Reply #13 on: 01 May 2007, 13:41 »
I hit a pigeon with the old Passat. That was messy. And hit another pigeon when riding my old motorbike. The daft bast@rd hit my crash helmet and did and I had to fight to stay on the bike. Brown pants scared! :shocked:

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Re: Grrrr roadkill damage!!!
« Reply #14 on: 03 May 2007, 22:39 »
Driving to work a couple of years ago in my mk2 Gl (jade green  :sick: ) and hit a pheasant, the stupid thing went for my car im sure anyway it cracked one of my lights so i got one from a scrapper 1 week later same road same thing happened again and cracked the other light.  :angry:

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Re: Grrrr roadkill damage!!!
« Reply #15 on: 03 May 2007, 22:46 »
Driving to work a couple of years ago in my mk2 Gl (jade green  :sick: ) and hit a pheasant, the stupid thing went for my car im sure anyway it cracked one of my lights so i got one from a scrapper 1 week later same road same thing happened again and cracked the other light.  :angry:

pluck me thats a bit unplucky  :grin:
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Re: Grrrr roadkill damage!!!
« Reply #16 on: 05 May 2007, 11:55 »
I hit a stone at 90mph a while back bust my deep dish alloys! nearly hit a badger the other day. Is it worht driving fast sometimes?  :sad:
i must buy a new car!