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

Blazer

Just dropped my car into the car and it's going to cost me about €250 to fix the ABS modules etc thanks to next door a fúckin dog chasing a cat into my wheel arch and ripping the wires to pieces.:(
My own fault...the kids were knocking on the car telling me the dog was going nuts around my car and I ignored them for about 10 minutes before chasing cat+dog off :mad:

So...what damage has an animal caused to your car etc..?

david

A hen pheasant cracked a fog lamp on my Opel Astra H. About 70 euro for a new one.

djimi

There are large scuff marks along one side of my car where a bastard pigeon flew into the side of my car one day.

eg6 vtec

i broke a mirror off a dears head one night driving home from carlow, i stopped and had a look to see if the dear was ok and it just ran off, i thought i had hit it with the front of the car at 1st because there was a very big bang, had a look seen nothing then seen the p/s mirror hanging down

Mech1

Customers Jaguar v12 convertable, it shared a container on a ship from Los Angeles to Dublin with a mouse or rat!

Full engine wiring looms wrecked, all plug leads, holes in rad and heater pipes.

Took days and a couple of grand to sort it.

Jimmy Bottlehead

Was taking a trip down to family in Sligo and decided to take the dog with me.

We got to Lucan and she decided to spend the rest of the trip vomiting
Don't think I could put a price on damage from her getting sick on the seat/carpet, but not the ideal thing you want in the car.
Still, felt worse for her than the car.

kildare.17hmr

Not me thank fook but the mother in laws husband has an MG convertable which a cat decided to make the soft top into a bed to enjoy the sun, clawed it to bits over a weekend while no one was home

C4Kid

Mech1 wrote: »

Customers Jaguar v12 convertable, it shared a container on a ship from Los Angeles to Dublin with a mouse or rat!

Full engine wiring looms wrecked, all plug leads, holes in rad and heater pipes.

Took days and a couple of grand to sort it.

Would that not having been covered by the shipping company no ?

flyingsnail

Hit a pigeon on the motorway, smashed the front grill on my corsa

Wolverine_1999

Fox.. new front bumper, fog lights, grill, underside of engine protector gone. Think my front left ABS sensor is broken as well, cars keeps braking when I turn hard on that wheel by itself... 318ci

€450 later I think :mad:

Mech1

C4Kid wrote: »

Would that not having been covered by the shipping company no ?

I dont know who eventually paid for it, but we where paid by the customer.:)

pcardin

hit moose with my e34 on rainy dark autumn evening back in 1999. Car was unrepairable. Moose too.

Our man in Havana

pcardin wrote: »

hit moose with my e34 on rainy dark autumn evening back in 1999. Car was unrepairable. Moose too.

I hope you took the moose.

no1beemerfan

eg6 vtec wrote: »

i broke a mirror off a dears head one night driving home from carlow, i stopped and had a look to see if the dear was ok and it just ran off, i thought i had hit it with the front of the car at 1st because there was a very big bang, had a look seen nothing then seen the p/s mirror hanging down

Any chance you could hit my aul dear's head! Lol!

I've never hit an animal but a friend of the families had a car end up on its roof in their garden about 10 years ago. As the fella was driving along at 60 mph a bird flew out of the hedge and he thought it was going to hit his window so swerved! Lost control and went through their hedge. Wrote his car off so that was pretty expensive.

pcardin

Our man in Havana wrote: »

I hope you took the moose.

I had no choice. It was already halfway in my car.

Our man in Havana

Was he tasty?

kildare.17hmr

Wolverine_1999 wrote: »

Fox.. new front bumper, fog lights, grill, underside of engine protector gone. Think my front left ABS sensor is broken as well, cars keeps braking when I turn hard on that wheel by itself... 318ci

€450 later I think :mad:

Ya could of just bought a gun and shot him for that price if ya really wanted to kill him!

Plug

I've seen a broken front bumper, busted radiator and AC condenser along with a bent bumper bar. It was an unmarked Garda car after they hit a cat they said:eek:

-Corkie-

I hit a stag one night near Oxford, I think the bill was nearly 10k on a brand new Scania.

unklerosco

Was heading down towards tallaght from up by the hellfire club a few years back. Some bloke along that road has a few horses, they got out of the stables and tore up the road. Car infront of me hit one, which went over the car and into my van and another hit the side of my van. Their car was written off, passanger was injured but not too bad. Front of my van was damaged and side door was bust. No idea what happened to the horses...

pcardin

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Was he tasty?

Like a drunken beef

Pottler

42 pigeons shat down the side of my van yesterday(at least it looked like the sh1t from 42 pigeons)-the feckers perch on the roof rack. I also bought a brand new van and the old fella asked me to stop cattle with it(I had it about an hour, despite whinging, old lad was adamant-"block the feckin gap, now"). 1 bullock broke for freedom and jumped the bonnet without much showjumping skills, landed on the wing and bonnet and made bits of them. Old lad thought it was funny, I didn't, really.

Plug

-Corkie- wrote: »

I hit a stag one night near Oxford, I think the bill was nearly 10k on a brand new Scania.

And Corkie wins the thread.

gerdee

My mum was driving my sis's vw polo and she hit a labrador. 3k for the repairs.

A guy I used to work with hit a few crows early one morning on the Dublin-Limerick road (before the motorways). He thought no more of it. Later, he passed a guard with a speed gun and as he was passing she just slowly lowered the gun and stared at the car. Transpired one of the crows was spread across the front of his car. So in that instance, it proababy saved him money. By his own admission he was well above the speed limit

worc

-Corkie- wrote: »

I hit a stag one night near Oxford, I think the bill was nearly 10k on a brand new Scania.

Ouch - I hit a stag, or technically the stag hit me. He came running out of the ditch and actually dipped his antlers into the front right of the car ... put antler dents into the bonnet and took off the side mirror. He was half on the front of the car but when I pulled over he had run off no bother on him...was doing 80kph.

Car wasn't worth much so got mirror in scrappage place and car lived with the war wounds.

Quazzie

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.

-Corkie-

worc wrote: »

Ouch - I hit a stag, or technically the stag hit me. He came running out of the ditch and actually dipped his antlers into the front right of the car ... put antler dents into the bonnet and took off the side mirror. He was half on the front of the car but when I pulled over he had run off no bother on him...was doing 80kph.

Car wasn't worth much so got mirror in scrappage place and car lived with the war wounds.

This cnut was huge. His antlers even smashed the bottom of the windscreen I will never get that image out of my head.. Actually ot but thats how I got with my now wife...

Long story..:D

Northern Monkey

Some bird left dents all over my bonnet one night :pac:

worc

Northern Monkey wrote: »

Some bird left dents all over my bonnet one night :pac:

Your real name isn't Georgie Burgess by any chance is it?

Budawanny

I got keyed by a dunk Badger in letterfrack

worc

-Corkie- wrote: »

This cnut was huge. His antlers even smashed the bottom of the windscreen I will never get that image out of my head.. Actually ot but thats how I got with my now wife...

Long story..:D

Yeah you officially win the thread - you got a wife out of it also! Jaysus...:eek:

Northern Monkey

Budawanny wrote: »

I got keyed by a dunk Badger in letterfrack

Long time lurker first time poster?

Budawanny

Northern Monkey wrote: »

Long time lurker first time poster?

Ya apols, the picture popped into my head.

Sterling Archer

mate of mine hit a Labrador, and bent the chassis among other things....

Wisesmurf

just spent the last hour searching for damage after I hit a badger on the m50 today.

Appears to be just a broken splitter and guts everywhere. Sounded way worse at the time. Had a spare splitter so stuck it on and cleaned the underside of the car.

Lets hope noting crops up down the line as a result...

Poor little guy.

Budawanny

Hit a reindeer in Sweden, not as exciting or dangerous as that
Lads run in with a moose. More like smashing your bumper off a sheep I suppose.
The sami put it out of its misery thankfully

TestTransmission

Came very close to smashing into skippy on a Australian highway, brakes just about stopped in time.

Our man in Havana

The bastards are always in pairs. You miss the first one and his mate gets you.

Hal1

We hit a dog years ago in an escort. He went straight under the os rear, but he rolled and was fine according to the owner. Just missing a bit of hair :pac:.

Markcheese

My brother in law,(Aussie) used to drive some woeful bangers.when my sister and him moved over to oz he decided to get something decent cos my sister would be driving it too .... Two weeks later he was going to sydney early for a job interview...a herd / flock/ group/ mob of suicide skippys wrote off his car, he didn't get to the interview either....

colm_mcm

I cracked the windscreen on my brava on the motorway at max speed
Low flying bird :eek:

Big Nasty

Must have been a good ten years ago now I was belting across the Dublin Mountains in the E36 Coupe I had at the time. Was doing close to seventy coming around a long bend when this huge bloody stag appears out of nowhere and just stops dead in the middle of the road. Was about 6am in July and fully bright so no excuses of being stunned by the headlights. Tried my best to slow down and swerved to the far side of the road. Hit the stag at speed and somehow just managed to clip and spin him so he went tumbling. Got a dent in the bonnet and wing and a broken headlight for my trouble. I reckon if I was going slower he wouldn't have flipped like that and done lots of damage if that makes sense. No idea how much it cost to repair but it wasn't big money.

ants09

Knew a manager of a BMW garage and he took a loan of a 7 Series

While driving home he hit a rabbit and decided to stop and being kind hearted as he was he put the rabbit into his back seat to bring to a vet.

Long story short rabbit wakes up and goes a wee bit mental in the car and the guy panics and rights off the car in a accident :eek:

L1011

My bumper got fairly damaged, albeit oddly enough not cosmetically (its some hangers that are buggered, one of the headlights moves easily now for instance) by hitting a hare or very, very large rabbit.

Got out of the car to see how badly injured it was and finish it off with the fire extinguisher if it was in bits but alive - the bugger had hopped off.

Blazer

christ..looking at the above stories I got off lightly
Final cost was reduced to €150 thank god..

Where To

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.

MugMugs

I took a wee dog out of it in my Mothers Sciecento years ago. That was fine. Dog had a broken leg and the reg plate was cracked..... until the next day that is.

Sitting in KFC drive through with the missus at the time when I said to her "Jaysus theres some almight stink, isn't there" Then the car overheated.

Basically dog hit car. Radiator pushed into electric fan. Fan tried to turn next day and was blocked by the radiator.... so it kept trying to turn until it burnt itself out.... then taking the car out with it.

On a brighter note, I got my civic back the next day so I was finished with the mothers fecking FIAT anyway

ValerieR

Not about the financial aspect of the story, more the funny one ...

6am in the morning, on a country road, about 20 years ago. The sun is shining, the roads are dry and I am flying down the road with my little Renault 5.
2 ducks in the hedge got scared and flew off. Only they were still too low when I passed by, one hit the car, on the very top of the windscreen with an awful bang.
In the mirror, it looked like I had hit a pillow : feathers everywhere !
I stopped to inspect the potential damage. Luckily enough, nothing to deplore, only lots of feathers glued on my aerial.
So, here I was, in a job-interview suit, at 6 in the morning, finding myself plucking my car aerial ! ... :eek:

Chavways

Were were in France on holidays a few years back.There was 5 of us in my fathers old Mercedes estate.We were driving along and a duck came out from the bushes and hit us.We didn't stop to check for it(probably should have) and just kept driving.

For the next 10 minutes people were flashing us and beeping at us.We pulled over and the duck was welded to the front grille of the car.It wasn't a nice sight.There was chunks of the grille and radiator broken off.

Our man in Havana

Free food is the upside of these incidents.

David09

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.