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Old 06-11-2006, 06:53 PM
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Default Hit a pigeon at 75mph!

Well pissed off, wish i stayed at home earlier
It was walking on the dual carriage way so i went to the left to avoid it and he went the same fcking way
Heres the damage( your probably expecting more but this is enough for me)


The black grill protecting the rad has been completly ripped off so thats just been placed there and luckily its staying put for now, it must have gone through the grill and into the rad as theres bits of bird burnt on it and it bloody reeks
Hoping the rad is ok as it was making a fizzing sound with abit of steam coming from it initially, then it stopped doing that after a while and i havent lost any water and i cant see any on the drive so im hoping its ok

Can the bumper be repaird? dont tell me i need a whole new one
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I know how you feel mate, hit a flock of the bastards, smashed me grill and fog light.

Old 06-11-2006, 07:12 PM
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Mine was cleared of most the mess before i took the pic.
Its worse when you have owned a car for 2 years and never put one scratch on it and then this

So do you think that my bumper can be repaired?
Old 06-11-2006, 07:13 PM
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My mate hit one in his 2i years back now, it was wedged in the slot in the bumper they have, a massive cloud of feathers erupted from the front of his car as I was following him in my 3i at the time!

Was funny as fuck! Pigeon was about 2 inches wide by the time we'd fished it out!
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Was it fudge who got a pheasants head or something stuck in the front end of his car and tried to ebay it

Bumper looks repairable and the fizzing was probably just pigeon blood or something with the heat
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Maybe, some fiber glassing and a skim of filler may do the trick.....

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Thanks for the storys, ive got abit of a smile on

Smudgerz, i know nothing about bodywork but im taking it to my garage for my mate to look at the rad, i think its ok but just want to be sure, and he knows about bodywork aswell so he will tell me what i can do with it hopefully

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Should be fine, will be able to blow that in no probs
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Unlucky mate

you got of lightly indeed

my dad hit one in his tigra years back

smashed the headlight foglight grille in bumper and scrapped all bumper

think it was pigeon or a blackbird whatever it was did some damage

was only doing about 50
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Heres my one, dried like ketchup in the morning:



I know what you mean about the smell
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