toxin440

I'm not another person that can raise their hand when it comes to hitting some stupid animal on the road..... friday night i was driving home down one of those dark texas roads and a raccoon runs out in front of me, i brake h ard and try to swerve but the smart bastard TURNS AROUND and tries to go back from where he came from, at least he's dead now (thats what he gets for messing up my ride)

damamge was pretty bad, here is a pic:



whole front bumper and everything else will neeed to be replaced, my rental you ask? a beautiful beige crown victoria, *GAG* \

damn raccoons

tiggerlee

Woah! That must've been one big coon!

NgoRX8

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^ Yea, looks like it ripped that front air dam off.

bbrx8

I feel your pain. Damn near the same thing that happened to my 8. same side even. The total damage ended up being about $1200. they had to replace the air dam, as well as the bumper cover. the plastic on the inner fender broke off and was rubbing my tire. I was also with you in the ugly rental car department. i had a maroonish looking four door taurus. UGLY!

bbrx8

Lucky it didnt get the oil cooler

juikster

Man, good thing it wasn't a full size skunk....not only frontend damage but a big decontamination issue as well. sorry about your car. that basturd must have been a big one

Chrisbert

When they replaced the bumper cover, did they have to do any repainting? I assume they paint the cover at the shop, but did they have to blend it with the body?

JRichter

Ouch. Friend of mine hit a raccoon in his 350Z and it did about the same amount of damage. It broke part of the bracket on the costly xenon headlight so the whole thing had to be replaced. He actually benefited from the hit because he got to put the newer looking 2006 bumper on his '05 car.

toxin440

I got a callback from mazda today (freeman mazda in irving) and they told me there was some damage to my a/c condenser too, he said round figure of estimate is about 2000+ dollars in damage!

DOH!

SilverEIGHT

Really sorry to here this. My wife feeds the little bastards off our back porch. I think I'd have made a cap!

toxin440

hmmm id get a gun if these car-wrecking bastards were on MY backporch.... of course I'm in texas so we love our guns.... mmmm GUNS!

Mugatu

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from the looks of the tire behind where you hit the raccoon, it looks like you splattered the **** out of it. nice job.

toxin440

no no -- thats mud from our front driveway -- i actually didnt see much blood (maybe thats because my 8 is black and it was pitch black at night in the middle of the road... the only blood or chunks i saw, was one bit of chunk and some fur on my front grille....

truemagellen

if you weren't talking on the phone and spacing out on meth maybe you wouldn't have hit the little bugger

toxin440

you go to hell... you go to hell and you die!


no phone, no booze, no drugs (never even tried any ugh!) and not even any radio blasting! So

truemagellen

you forgot no sex yah puritan

TRZ750

Sorry for you, but be glad you were in a good car like a RX8. My brother was killed trying to avoid a animal in the road when in a older VW Bug. The car flipped and he was thrown out. The older VWs had a funny semi solid rear end and one side could launch the car. He only had it for two days and didn't know about the funny handling. (This was in the 50's).

toxin440

heh who said anything about being a puritan? I just meant at the time of the incident i wasn't driving like some of the crazy bastards I see on the road all the time... i.e. i was ACTUALLY concentrating on driving 100%. I've passed people before that are shaving, reading books, putting on makeup, getting dressed, and all kinds of crap while they were driving. SCARY