My VZ HSV and Animals

[pjbrennan]

Well, the last two occasions I have travelled up to the out-laws farm have been interesting:

- hit a kangaroo at about 40-50km/h. It was stationary and I was hoping it would move off the road. It didnt and I nudged it off to the side.

Damage: bent number plate and tooth/claw dent in front spoiler

- hit a rabbit. I thought it went under the car, but checked the next day

Damage: somehow it went into the mesh insert at the bottom of the radiator and bounced out again. Anyway, no more mesh insert and heaps of fur and blood

Just be careful travelling at night !

PAUL

[goofafidamedes]

Sounds a lot like my mate with his VY II Clubby on the way to Camperdown catching a bunny rabbit at night and having it jam in his exhaust... Cooked bunny wabbit. :shiner:

[JA SV8]

I have seen a bird stuck in the grill on a VZ last year... poor bastard, it would also have been a bastard to get out again!
Unfortunatly i have hit a few animals, posums are the smallest, and one night i hit a wombat in dads Patrol.... I would not recommend hitting one of these in a car! It was like a speed bump in the Patrol, and the wombat walked off after too!!

PS i dont like hitting animals at all, i tried to stop for the wombat, but dirt road so i skidded into it :(

[SICK SS]

i dont travel at night takes care of alot of wildlife problems

[X BC X]

i have had a run in with a dead roo carcass before....

driving at night, no streetlights, came around a corner and saw it at the last minute. instead of swerving off into the trees, i proceeded to plough over it.
small little bump, thought myself lucky.

decided to check everything out when i came to a servo,
front spoiler intact and no damage....then went to the rear.

like a fist appearing out of the air and punching me in the face, the smell hit me. jumped in the car and flew home. :spew:

next morning got her up on stands out the front, and there were the rancid guts and fur of the dead roo entwined and burnt into the undercarriage/exhaust. :spew: :spew:

a few hours with the high pressure cleaner sorted out the situation,
but explaining the blood flow down the driveway infront of passers by was another story.
:lmao:

[Daz Vx Clubbie]

Well, the last two occasions I have travelled up to the out-laws farm have been interesting:

- hit a kangaroo at about 40-50km/h. It was stationary and I was hoping it would move off the road. It didnt and I nudged it off to the side.

Damage: bent number plate and tooth/claw dent in front spoiler

- hit a rabbit. I thought it went under the car, but checked the next day

Damage: somehow it went into the mesh insert at the bottom of the radiator and bounced out again. Anyway, no more mesh insert and heaps of fur and blood

Just be careful travelling at night !

PAUL

Yeah something I have to watch quite a bit where I live atm. Just last night I was driving home and there were 4 roo's sitting on the side of the road. I saw them so I backed right off. I was lucky this time..... I've even had one jump out at me on my own driveway once and nearly cleaned him up.

[Sugaris]

i was driving home from work one morning and a vs clubby went flying past me doing about 160km hr...

anyway i kept driving along for about 2 minutes and noticed a freshly hit dingo laying in the middle of the road... then a little further up was the clubby that went flying past... the dingo had remolded the front end of that clubby...

lucky for me as i probably would have taking it out... Anyway because i had the ute i gave him a tow into town... he got it fixed... $3000 dollars later!!

his nic name at work became "Ernie" Ernie Dingo :lmao:

speed and dingo's don't mix!!

[WhiteLion]

I've had my share of wild life experiences. Luckily, no damage to my car.

Hit a roo in a work VN wagon. Didn't brake, tried to overtake hime, but copped him in the side. Small dent at F wheel arch, plus toe nail groove down the length of the car!
Hire Falcon Sedan (EF or L), Roo, corner of the front bumper turned inside-out, plus some under-bonnet damage.
Wombat, in my XY wagon. Luckily V low speed, and apparently no damage to either party.
Plus a variety of birds (including a flock of Galahs that took the bumper off a work VP wagon, but that's another story).
Now I do a fair bit of night driving between Lismore and Grafton, down the Summerland Way. Pleany of roos and wild dogs. I investigated the usefullness of a "Shoo-roo". I tracked down a comprehensive study carried out by one of the Melbourne Unis (I think). Save your money, they don't work!!
Steve

[throttlehappy]

ive got 2 stories
a while ago i was driving along to have a few birds fly right infront of me, well one didnt make it and i thought id sqwished it for sure but it was nowhere to be seen, a few weeks down the track me and my brother pulled the radiator out to replace a tank due to a slight crack. guess what was underneath :yup:

another time i coming down a hill and there was a flock of those pink and white birds :doh: cant remember the name. they decided to fly out infront too, all of them got past except one which hit just under the front badge. didnt do any damage should of heard the noise though :lol: