Grrrr roadkill damage!!!

[tobz.]

I was driving home from the cambridge meet last night and had a dirty great big hare run out on me.
Was doing about 80 at the time so there was no time to try and avoid it..................WHACK!!!!
Turned my sounds down and there a horrible rubbing/grinding sound going on at the front, had to drive about a mile until I could pull over safely.
Get out to find my arch trim flapping about in the breeze, it had been rubbing on the tyre and had burnt a massive hole in it  On further examination it turns out I was very lucky, the hare had just glanced off the bottom corner of my bumper so the bumper/foglight/chin spoiler etc had all survived. The arch trim had popped off its rivets all the way round to the back so there was no damage to the wing either.

I've just been on the phone to my local stealer and incredibly I was able to order a fresh new pair of front arch trims!!! I thought everybody had been saying these went obsolete a long time ago???

[KittyMk1]

yes your very lucky! dont know about the wheel arch trims though

[boneybradley]

I hope you took it home and stewed the b*stard 

and yeah you were lucky with so little damage....i caught a crow with my windscreen a couple of years ago and it came through and splatted my dash with it's gut's

[tobz.]

yes your very lucky! dont know about the wheel arch trims though

pretty sure people have had hassle getting them in the past, the guy at Vindis said he was showing one in stock at the factory. Providing the computer isn't lying I may have just purchased the last one!!!

I would have gone back Bradley just to make sure it was doubly dead but when I looked in my mirror there was just a plume of fur/guts etc in the air that the car behind me then emerged through!!! Thought I better keep going.

[billy_vw]

yes your very lucky! dont know about the wheel arch trims though

a few years ago, a deer decided to walk out infront of my mates scirocco and writ the car off.

[SpearMintTom]

lol I was round a mates at the weekend and was bombing it round some old country lanes, went round a bend and there was the fattest f*cking pheasant standing in the road straight at me, tyre was lined right up and took it's neck/head off with my grill LOL

all i could see was a bloody great *poof* of feathers in my rear view mirror - stopped over to check and i had it's head sticking out of my grill next to the VW badge! LOL was comical & digusting..

[mattneck(Beavis)]

lol I was round a mates at the weekend and was bombing it round some old country lanes, went round a bend and there was the fattest f*cking pheasant standing in the road straight at me, tyre was lined right up and took it's neck/head off with my grill LOL

all i could see was a bloody great *poof* of feathers in my rear view mirror - stopped over to check and i had it's head sticking out of my grill next to the VW badge! LOL was comical & digusting..

Pics or stfu! 

[kniterider]

yeah your lucky mate!! i hit a pheasant at about 80 in one of my old smokey 16v... bumper ok but did headlight, grill and front panel and knocked the rad back off its mountings (mind you half alive pheasant was still in there when i pulled over.. minus a wing and leg... so i had to pull it out and throw it in the d**e...lol) luckily i had a donor mk2 16v also so i just swapped the bits over in about 45mins.... you had a lucky escape though!!!

 

[Stu.750]

splatted a pheasant myself driving a 1360 mini i had , hit it half screen half roof at about 90 cut it clean in half , half came in half went over covered me n my mate in blood feathers n sh!t


   lucky it didnt take out the bumper tho

[bomp]

If you're ever unfortunate enough to hit a horse or pony, duck under the dash if you got time.

I saw a mini many years ago totaly blitzed from hitting a pony.  I had to wrestle the poor bugger to the floor (twist its head) then lay on its neck because he kept running into the traffic.  A WPC turned up and it died shortly after that. (She sobbed saying she used to have a pony, arghh bless).

Can't remember what happened to the ocupants of the car though, don't think I wanted to look to be honest.