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hey
on my way home tonight i almost ran ova a rabbit at 100 kmh. he woulda gone straight under the passenger wheel. i was just wondering wat damage it coulda do to my car. im still at stock height if that will change any thing.

me217

only real damage i can see from hitting a rabbit, is maybe getting a bone thru your tyre, a little panel damage if u hit him with ur bumper, and then just blood and guts up under ur car

nothing too bad, not like hitting a roo

left over fur stuck on the exhaust

i got the bull bar to protect the bumper. well most of it. but im guessin hittin a roo would do alot more damage. and the fur on the exhaust would smell alittle lol


me217

wheel allignment?

thats already out lol spose thats something i should get done. thanks for reminding me

me217

i hit a roo at 110kph a number of years ago drivin up north would of beed about 2 in the morn, he stuck his head out i hit it with the corner of my arb bar , i kept drivin and no damage

wow lucky u. i almost hit a roo at about 60km/h ova 100 km/h in a early model astra. that was scary. he stood higher then the car and stepped right out in front of me. i need to get a real bar. not just a toy alloy one.

me217

I hit a rabit in a camry once with the passenger side front tyre, heard a thud then silence for about 10 seconds then a quick repetative thump thump thump thump for about another ten seconds and then nothing. When I got home there was blood all under the car and a little fur, was not pretty.

my zuk has hit all sorts of small animals and no damage.. even a bird right into the left indicator - and no damage - it was a magpie too..

Wouldnt fancy a zuk's chances against a roo though!

in my jimny with arb bar i had a 30kph head on with a festiva, bent plate for me was all, and in my vit with an arb bar i cleaned up a roo at 90kph, just had to adjust one of the ipf's.

May I ask how you came to have a head on?

me217 wrote:hey
on my way home tonight i almost ran ova a rabbit at 100 kmh. he woulda gone straight under the passenger wheel. i was just wondering wat damage it coulda do to my car. im still at stock height if that will change any thing.

me217

You are joking, right.

joeblow wrote:in my jimny with arb bar i had a 30kph head on with a festiva, bent plate for me was all, and in my vit with an arb bar i cleaned up a roo at 90kph, just had to adjust one of the ipf's.

got cut-off in wet wheather, you can guess the rest. underwear change was in order afterwards.

me217 wrote:hey
on my way home tonight i almost ran ova a rabbit at 100 kmh. he woulda gone straight under the passenger wheel. i was just wondering wat damage it coulda do to my car. im still at stock height if that will change any thing.

me217

I wouldn't even bother slowing down for a rabbit. I hit one doing about 120kph in a barina and all i had to do was peel it off the front grill, didnt even leave a scratch roos are a different story though

I witnessed a guy in a Samurai in the US have a collision with a cow. The Zuk was doing about 60mph, it was pitch black at night, the cow was doing about 2km/h it also was pitch black and it wandered out into the road right in front of the zuk.

End result: 1 dead cow, 1 dead Zuk, 2 very lucky occupants with minimal injuries. The Zuk hit so hard he concertinaed the bonnet back into the windscreen, broke the weber carby clean off the engine block leaving an imprint in the cow, pushed the engine back a couple of inches, shortnede the door openings by about an inch, bent the chassis rails.

After 3 days of wor in the campground and a quick run from Moab down into Colorado for a new front clip he finished the week off at the Jeep Safari with us.

Worse thhing was he got hit with a $2000 fine for hitting the cow as they are allowed to roam free range and it is up to drivers to look out for them. But we did get a huge piece of cow for a bbq from the owner

grimbo wrote: Worse thhing was he got hit with a $2000 fine for hitting the cow as they are allowed to roam free range and it is up to drivers to look out for them.

that must be the dumbest idea i have ever heard. how are you supposed to see a black cow at night?

ZUKPOWER wrote:

grimbo wrote: Worse thhing was he got hit with a $2000 fine for hitting the cow as they are allowed to roam free range and it is up to drivers to look out for them.

that must be the dumbest idea i have ever heard. how are you supposed to see a black cow at night?

who knows but that is the law, there are plenty of signs up

grimbo wrote:

ZUKPOWER wrote:

grimbo wrote: Worse thhing was he got hit with a $2000 fine for hitting the cow as they are allowed to roam free range and it is up to drivers to look out for them.

that must be the dumbest idea i have ever heard. how are you supposed to see a black cow at night?

who knows but that is the law, there are plenty of signs up

Same thing applies here.

Probably one of the most dangerous roadkill issues in Vic are flocks of galahs on the side of the road. Had a brown stain moment once when we hit a flock at about 130km/h. Couldn't see a farkin' thing through the windscreen.

was following my brother in his Zuk which had a roof rack on. He hit a Galah whilst doing a 100. The Galah went between the roof and the roof rack, bounced down the length of the roof and exploded out the end in a puff of grey and pink feathers.

I have also hit a fox which resulted in an explosion of red and white fur all over the front of my Zuk. Not pretty and not much fun to clean up.

Many many years ago my Dad was driving along Nepean Highway crossing the paterson River bridge and ran into a flock of sheep with his Falcon XY GT. Now that was a mess

rats make a cool 'pop' noise when you run over them
back in 2000 i was crossing from qld to nt with my grandparents in there 100series when we hit a swarm of bugs and birds. by the time we pulled up in alice springs the car was plastered with dead bugs and there were little birds jammed in all sorts of places

Hit a pregnant racehorse at 100kph near Stawell on our way from Adelaide to Melbourne years back. It was a black horse and was running down the middle of our lane towards us ... because of glare from oncoming cars, we never saw it till we hit.

Some idiot had opened the gate and let it out. $30k damage to Dad's VQ Caprice and almost took us both out. The A pillars were crushed down to steering wheel / dash level, the B pillar on the drivers side to head restraint level, and we were all crouched up underneath. A highway cop pulled up only seconds after the accident (before we'd gotten out of the car) and wouldn't let bystanders assist because he expected at least the driver to be dead. Neither of us actually was injured beyond whiplash and glass cuts but Dad was pretty cut up and won't drive distances at night any more.

I just won't drive in the country at night without a few Lightforce spotties to clear the way

hit plenty of rabbits and foxes and a few roos. got a couple dents in the side of the zook from crazy roos running into the side of me at nite thinking i am invisible.

hit a taxi in the rear left quaterpanel when he cut infront of me, took of the back bumper of his camry cracked rear windscreen and bent chassis a little bit.
all i had was a cracked park light, 3mm C section steel as a bumper will do that.

my mate just hit a roo 2 nights ago in his sierra he was doing about 70-80ks and the roo came out from the side and he hit it that hard it snaped the stock sierra bullbar in 3 places, stufed the grill the flare and the front quater panel on the pasengers side, he said the bake end come around from the impaked almost roled it so he was lucky.

cheers scott

i hit a roo at 100k's and it only bent my rod holders around and 2 the 2 blue cases off my new lightforce spoties (when they where new) an no damage and i felt the 2 bumps under the diffs and the was just alot of blodd and guts under my car when i got home and my girlfreinds dad hit a cow the othere night in his truck the truck went over it then managed to get under one side of the trailer fliping the b double over and making a big mess clossing the high way shuting it down for a night

whats the stock bullbar look like?

me217

its the one which you leave the stock bumper on and it comes up with a hope on each end made from aloy, it snaped the hope of and the main part bit in the middle and also snaped the main part as well.there pritty week realy this one is stuffed now all it did was leave a bull bar inprint in his front end lol but it was like 7 foot roo

This thread is heading towards the ghay side of tech..... seems a bit more chitty chat to me....

The original question was fair enough but now I think we're just comparing pencils.

Carry on

Steve.

Gwagensteve wrote:This thread is heading towards the ghay side of tech..... seems a bit more chitty chat to me....

The original question was fair enough but now I think we're just comparing pencils.

Carry on

Steve.

Haha

Well… A while ago I was driving an ex girlfriend and her mates to their netball game.
Had the top off (the zook, not the girlfriend), hit a pigeon top lefthand side off windscreen, bounced off the GF's head, went under the targa bar and hit her friend smack in the face.

No damage to the zook, I just got a slap for laughing too much!