Re: [doc] Re: Hit a Deer :-(

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

Cheers mate

It was only a small deer, and I was damn lucky it went under rather than 
over. I fully expected the front spoiler to be broken, but that appears 
to have bounced too. I actually found myself thinking how lucky I wasn't 
in the Xantia!!! (although that has enormous bumpers which are mounted 
on big rubber bushes - bloke ran into the back of me in his MX5 last 
year. Caused a couple of scratches to a £20 part (Citroen had the sence 
to make the corners of their bumpers seperate from the rest!) but caused 
more than £700 damage to his front wing. Also a tribute to the Xantia's 
brakes.)

In all honesty, the bang the animal made was probably no worse than what 
I do when I'm thumping the grill back into place, it just sounded really 
bad in the cockpit!

Martin
Vin#1458

funkymcfly wrote:

> Considering the speed you were going your car got off lightly! Even 30mph can be nasty with an animal like a deer. Someone here at work hit a deer with their Alfa GTV and it needed extensive work (new bonnet, and some straightening of the bulkhead at the front of the chassis)... a tribute to good engineering, even after 20 years eh!
>
> More happy to hear you're alright than the car though... 
>
> Dan
> Vin#5284