The most damage an animal has caused to your car etc.

Hal1 · 23-05-2012 12:42am

David09 wrote: »

Hit a horse with an old escort xr3i a couple of years ago. Bonnet, windscreen driver's door, mirror, wing and driver's side window were damaged.

The owner never paid up and I had to foot the bill.

I'd say you got a few gains out of that :pac:.

David09 · 23-05-2012 12:52am

Hal1 wrote: »

I'd say you got a few gains out of that :pac:.

Hal1 · 23-05-2012 2:05am

David09 wrote: »

Horse power (sorry it's late):o.

2 stroke · 23-05-2012 2:14am

I've never had worse than bird**** on my car but a bumblebee(or something similar) hit me on the knee and I doing 90 mph on a bike, hurt like hell.

psycho-hope · 23-05-2012 2:34am

our dog stepped on a broken bottle that one of our lovely neighbours had thrown over the wall, resulted in him severing a vein and a 1 am dash to ucd from near wicklow town, back seat of the car was covered in blood, got most of the blood out with a scrubbing brush and salty water but theres still a stain near the door on the passenger side

harry Bailey esq · 23-05-2012 2:47am

my lovely ladyfriend once deployed both airbags(the ones in the car) which i had only 'borrowed' for a mini road trip while a former housemate was on a long weekend away.i ended up dropping a few hundred to get em fixed.silly cow.

P.C. · 23-05-2012 9:22am

Not my car, but last year an elephant overturned a car in a game park in South Africa, with the occupants inside. The occupants ended up in hospital, but made it out with not too much damage. Car was a write off. Elephant walked away.

Moral of the story...
Elephants have right of way.

Dr_Colossus · 23-05-2012 1:15pm

About 20+ years ago the father parked his Ford Granada at the head of a bog road in the middle of Connemara to go fishing. Returned a number of hours later to find wild and hungry cattle surrounding the car stripping it off all it's chrome and chewing away. Somehow they had pulled all the chrome strips from around the windows, door panels, grill, aerial and parts of the bumpers off. The plastic/chrome was beyond salvation and cattle roaming common land so no ready means of identifying their owner.

Not sure what the cost of repairs would have been but car was sold as was to an undertaker and converted into a hearse. The undertaker was only interested in body and engine of the car so not overly concerned about all the missing/damaged chrome.

Admldj · 23-05-2012 2:19pm

a couple of years a ago was bringing home a Labrador puppy for the daughters birthday the pup was a bit nervous so i had her in the front of the jeep with me on the foot well, driving for about 25 mins no problem then 5 mins from home she decides to have a dose of the the trots it was absolutely EVERYWHERE, what made it worse was she started jumping around and spreading it as she went, took about a week to get the last of it out of the jeep all i can say is thank god for leather

Grolschevik · 23-05-2012 2:40pm

2 stroke wrote: »

I've never had worse than a bird **** on my car

Me too. Broke up with her the next day.

Heroditas · 23-05-2012 3:02pm

Quazzie wrote: »

I hit a dog whilst travelling at high speed. Car needed a headlight,,a wing, new bonnet, and a front bumper. total cost was €1200, but the worst part was telling the owner their 13 year old family pet was dead.

I'd say they were even more distressed when you gave them the bill for the repairs.

Where To wrote: »

Hit a crow doing a bit over the speed limit (more than twice the limit:o) in me dad's brand new mondeo when I was a youngfella.

Hit the grill, then the bonnet, windscreen and hit the roof that hard it bent the pillars.

Hold on, a crow or a cow?

dgt · 23-05-2012 3:05pm

With my old car I hit a hare at 70mph. Took a lump out of my bumper and broke it into bits... Drove around for a week with no front bumper!

Quazzie · 23-05-2012 6:14pm

Heroditas wrote: »

I'd say they were even more distressed when you gave them the bill for the repairs.

I felt too guilty about killing the dog that was a family pet older than some of their kids that I never went back.

I paid all €1200 myself.

Where To · 23-05-2012 7:25pm

Heroditas wrote: »

I'd say they were even more distressed when you gave them the bill for the repairs.

Hold on, a crow or a cow?

Was moving fairly fast and it was a long time ago, but it had wings and feathers and a beak.

Sterling Archer · 24-05-2012 12:26am

Where To wrote: »

Was moving fairly fast and it was a long time ago, but it had wings and feathers and a beak.

So this then ya

http://images.wikia.com/monster/images/f/f1/Griffin.jpg

Willard · 24-05-2012 1:14am

A friend of mine hit a sheepdog at speed & wrote off his fiesta.
Me I had a relatively new polo & had just replaced & got sprayed a brand new passenger mirror 2 days before its first nct. Took the scenic route over the hills home from Nct centre, a sheep loose on the road jumped out and snapped the new mirror clean off. the paint was barely dry, it was on the car a total of 3 days & in total had set me back €200.

notsobusy · 24-05-2012 2:19am

I was going to ask in this situation who foots the bill? I always assume its the animal owner as a lady in a polo hit one of our cows a couple of years ago and it cost 3.5k and we paid it. We were at fault which i dont have a problem with.

Sterling Archer · 24-05-2012 10:04pm

It's normally to owner afaik, i one hit a dog, when i got out to check on it it's owner came out and insisted it was ok and that i should be on my way,

I think the same applies to Trees and gates.

Sobanek · 24-05-2012 10:19pm

Hit a turkey. Cracked my reg plate surround.

bijapos · 24-05-2012 10:21pm

Mid 90's (95 iirc) i came home from France for two days holidays, reserved a car when I was in the airport in Paris to be picked up in Dublin. Got to Dublin and they didn't want to give me the car (a Golf) as it was brand new and I was a bit young; it seems they gave their 2-3 year old cars to younger people where possible and gave newer cars to "more mature" drivers.

It was getting late but they gave it to me anyway and I set off, about 6 miles after Mullingar on the road to Longford I hit a bullock and wrote the Golf off, the A pillar on the passenger side was totally flattened. The car had exactly 653 miles on the tacho, I remember it to this day!:pac:

I spent so long sorting the insurance out the next day that I never got to see the parents, kipped on a mates couch in Rathmines the next night and flew out the following morning.

Bullock died too.

Hal1 · 24-05-2012 10:25pm

Did you faire up da barbie? :P

Hit a turkey. Cracked my reg plate surround.

Bearcat · 24-05-2012 11:27pm

I had an animal that urinated on my pax seat under duress in my old jetta ....since scrapped. Could I get the smell of pee out of the car.....nope. I never forgave her.

lostboy · 25-05-2012 1:10am

2 stroke wrote: »

I've never had worse than bird**** on my car but a bumblebee(or something similar) hit me on the knee and I doing 90 mph on a bike, hurt like hell.

this has happened me, only it was a wasp, and it it made its way into my helmet at speed, good thing i was doing a damn sight less than 90mph!

have had knee bees though and they hurt

The most damage an animal has caused to your car etc.

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