Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

Bubba1235

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Friday afternoon evening with 85 degrees so the wife and I take the convertible out. Coming home right at dusk on a two lane state highway that due to budget cuts hasn't been mowed since July. The weeds and grass are litterly 3 to 4 foot tall right up to the edge of the black top. Anyhow, running along at about 45 - 50 because I know the deer are thick this time of year. Didn't help, three come out of the weeds right in front of me. I braked and swerved and missed two but couldn't avoid the third one. Looking at it this morning I'd guess $3000 to $5000 damage. Front facia, air dam, carbon fiber hood, gazilion dollar head light assembly, drivers side fender, drivers side door panel.

Now I get to call the insuranace people and do battle. Of the the 10's of thousands of miles I drive each year I probably drive this car between 500 and 600 miles total. Yeah, I'm bummed, the car will never be "original" again. :( :( :(
 

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Re: Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

What kind of car is it?
 

TilliamWe

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Yeah Bubba, head into your claim with the attitude that it'll be a battle and I am SURE that everything will go smoothly. Regarding original, sorry, it's a used car, no matter how few miles on it. When you wreck them, they get repaired. It's life, that's just the way things happen.
 

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Re: Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

This thread is unless without pics. :D
 

Summer Fun

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Bubba, I'm just joshing with ya. :)

I wrecked my 1962 ford falcon 2yrs ago & I'm still p*ssed off about it. :mad:

It looked just like this one.

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Re: Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

Wrecked our kia now it's not a vet but the insurance company used all new parts. Will say it was a deer strike and cost nothing out of pocket. Mainly because the deer died, was hot out and I just got off a 12 hr shift or would have been bambi bugers.
 

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Bubba, I feel your pain. I just got my truck in July, it my first car. I saved up forever and as a graduation present my dad gave me some money for it. In November, I pulled off to the side of the road to check out some stuff on the curb, ladders, I think, and some moron (drunk, high, texting, who knows?) veered off the road and smashed into my front end caused 8 grand in damages and it bent my frame so I have uneven tire wear and have to replace my front tires prematurely. The worst part was insurance barely paid for anything.

Best of luck sorting everything out, it's really a pain. However, I'm surprised no one said this and you likely don't want to hear it, I know I didn't.

at least everyone is ALIVE and well

and as, well, for shooting deer, I'm going hunting later today ;)
 

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Re: Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

I bet you're not nearly as upset with the crash as the deer was...:rolleyes:
 

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I forgot to mention, I have those little deer guards on my truck, mounted in the grill (completely invisible) and deer and even bear RUN from them... We have a huge deer problem here in NJ, they finally allow us to hunt them to keep the population in check...

and I hate deer because deer mean ticks... and ticks mean lyme disease...
 

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Re: Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

Bubba, I feel your pain. I just got my truck in July, it my first car. I saved up forever and as a graduation present my dad gave me some money for it. In November, I pulled off to the side of the road to check out some stuff on the curb, ladders, I think, and some moron (drunk, high, texting, who knows?) veered off the road and smashed into my front end caused 8 grand in damages and it bent my frame so I have uneven tire wear and have to replace my front tires prematurely. The worst part was insurance barely paid for anything.

With a bent frame, insurance should have totalled it, paid up and gone after the other guys insurance....
 

zopperman

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With a bent frame, insurance should have totalled it, paid up and gone after the other guys insurance....

There's a lot they should have done :mad: my dad is still fighting with them a year later after they proceeded to deem it my fault (I was literally parked) and drop me...
 

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Wound up hitting a buck with a cavvy a few years back. Both airbags deployed. Let me tell ya those suckers scared me more than the deer. Owned the car a total of 3 months before the wreck.

Cop and dec officer wanted to know if I wanted the rack. Turns out was an old timer with 23 points on him. BIG azz deer. Took three guys to load him. I asked if I could mount the deers azz so everytime I thought about the accident I could kick it where it counted.

With your insurance make sure it gets put in as no fault. Progressive fought me till the end (when I switched companies) that I was at fault and jacked my insurance sky high.

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Bubba don't forgot its a holiday weekend for most places (columbus day in us and thanksgiving in canada) so a lot of places might be closed.

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Re: Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

Yeah, Monday I'll be ready for the arguing. No one around over the weekend.

Again this is the exact wrong attitude to have. You are just setting yourself up for aggravation. Oh well, you'll learn. (Or maybe you won't)
Did SLPs come with carbon fiber hoods?

Whoever said a bent frame means a vehicle should have been totalled doesn't know anything about body repair. Bent frames are repaired everyday and successfully. Zopper if your vehicle wears tire unevenly, the shop you chose did a faulty repair. Not your insurance company's fault, the shop's fault.
 

zopperman

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Re: Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

Again this is the exact wrong attitude to have. You are just setting yourself up for aggravation. Oh well, you'll learn. (Or maybe you won't)
Did SLPs come with carbon fiber hoods?

Whoever said a bent frame means a vehicle should have been totalled doesn't know anything about body repair. Bent frames are repaired everyday and successfully. Zopper if your vehicle wears tire unevenly, the shop you chose did a faulty repair. Not your insurance company's fault, the shop's fault.

I dont want to hi jack bubbas thread, but I had two different STS shops look at it.. and they said it was a bent frame and there was basically nothing I could do except replace the tire every few thousand miles. ANy chance you could PM me with some more info or something if you think it might be fixable? I know pretty much nothing about car suspension systems and steering, but they said that the tie rod had 2 inches of play when they went to do the alignment... I think that the bent frame issue didn't surface till I noticed teh weird tire wear... DO you think I should pursue it?
 

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dont know if the insurance co's are the same south of the border, but i had an incidence about three months ago.....i had to say the deer hit me.....i didnt hit the deer!!!!
 

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You wished you had hit all the deer? There goes that political career!!:D

Sorry Bubba trying to make you laugh, I hate to tell you this but you have to post pics of it, Forum etiquette and a future in the political sector we have blackmail material on you now!!

I am sorry for the car though I can't imagine, I would be sick too, thankfully you and the wife were not injured though....
 

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Re: Destroyed the front of my favorite car last night.

I really like the SLP Engineering Package.......... from what you have described....... I bet it is closer to 10K in damage :(
 
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