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Old May 23, 2008 | 07:55 PM
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Hit a deer a few days ago, hit it going about 55 en route from Richmond to Waldorf at about 1:30 in the morning. Ran right out in front of me, there wasn't another car in sight so it had to have just been suicidal. It flew up pretty high so I'm pretty sure I killed him, my car kept running fine and wasn't making any strange noises or anything after I hit it so I kept going for a little bit before I got the courage to finally pull over and look at the damage. This is what I saw:











It's getting fixed now, about 5k in damages, had to go through insurance obviously. Overall it'll wind up costing me $500 for the deductable, $150-200 for the rental car, and eventually $150 for new Fig grilles. My luck sucks. Just thought I'd share. Also, is Doctor Isotope still selling the radiator cooling plate things? Cause I'm gonna need to get a new one of those too.
Old May 23, 2008 | 08:02 PM
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ouch... at least you werent hurt.... cant say that for the deer though....
Old May 23, 2008 | 08:04 PM
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ahhh thats sucks. glad you're okay though. wrekcing aftermarket items always sucks. and yes, he still sells them on doctorisotope.com
Old May 23, 2008 | 08:36 PM
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sorry =(
Old May 23, 2008 | 09:10 PM
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ouch, sorry to hear that.
Old May 23, 2008 | 09:26 PM
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ouchie... that must have hurt... sorry to c that...
Old May 23, 2008 | 09:32 PM
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At least you're ok.

I had a deer take out my first box, so I know how you feel.
Old May 23, 2008 | 09:35 PM
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damn that must have been scary too. always sad to see a wrecked tc
Old May 23, 2008 | 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by BlckdOutTC
damn that must have been scary too. always sad to see a wrecked tc
indeed... time to invest in those deer whistles
Old May 23, 2008 | 09:49 PM
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Old May 23, 2008 | 11:08 PM
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so uhhh who won?
Old May 23, 2008 | 11:17 PM
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ouch
Old May 23, 2008 | 11:25 PM
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A beer did that to your car?

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!

Seriously....you have my sympathy.
Old May 23, 2008 | 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by bigwillystyle23
so uhhh who won?
well as bad as the car looks the deer died so i would say the tc won!
Old May 23, 2008 | 11:44 PM
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Seriously, adding rental to your policy is virtually nothing. It is very cheap and comes in very handy.
Old May 23, 2008 | 11:55 PM
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drugs are bad mmkay.................
Old May 24, 2008 | 12:06 AM
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dear done and messed your car up man lol, good thing you werent hurt.
Old May 24, 2008 | 01:50 AM
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primo chance for a carbon fiber hood now
Old May 24, 2008 | 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by paulky_2000
A beer did that to your car?

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!

Seriously....you have my sympathy.
Yep, good reason not to beer and drive.

Truly sucks though. I have seen deer that cause that much damage and hop away before too, possibly die later from internal bleeding.
Old May 24, 2008 | 03:24 AM
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ur lucky the deer didnt become a passenger, i've seen some pretty nasty things from when ppl hit deer, like ½ of it makes its way inside the car, thats bad... good thing ur ok though.

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