Thread: Punch in the nose

Originally Posted by Chucaro

How big will be the damage without bull bar
Lucky you mate that you have one fitted in your Landy

wow mate you are still alive......

Know how you feel.... This happened to me back in 2005 while I was down at a property near Ravensthorpe/Hopetoun in WA.
Thing is, I was based in Albany at the time and had just taken off the ****ty ally bar and waiting for the ARB winch bar to be delivered. Had a 4 week planting job in Munglinup to do and the bar hadnt arrived from Perth in time.
this happened about 7AM in the morning on Springvale rd just as we had left the Mungy Caravan park to go to the job.
Got a big Western red on the hop (alpha male) with no chance of stopping in p***ing down rain on a dirt road. He was over 6 ft and hit him doing about 80k's.

Bumper bar didnt suffer anything worse than wearing a bit of fur and roo juice, but everything else on top just folded!!

Insurance paid out $12,000 for the job. New bonnet cost $3000!!!!

Originally Posted by cucinadio

wow mate you are still alive......

hi mate yes alive and well, very happy with my Rangie 88 3.5FI Heaps better car than my Disco 98 Tdi300

I was doing about 90Kms when I hit him. I had just dipped my lights as a truck was around the corner. Skip came out and and landed in front of me just at the same moment as I dipped the lights. You know when you dip the lights, you get a 1 or 2 sec delay before things get real clear and the eyes adjust to lesser light. Well that is when he decided to hop out.
He was not on the hop, just landed there, I took my foot off the accelerator we made eye contact then wham, and I just rolled over the top of him.

He must have done something though, had to get it flatbed-ed to a repairer. Radiator leaking water, so possible damage to Radiator, heat exchanger for air con, inter cooler. Grill RS and surround, oh and bull bar.

He measured about 41/2 to 5' from base of tail to head.

I am quite Okay touch wood (tapping head)

And the city "experts" decry bullbars! Without it the damage would have been a lot worse.

John

My thought exactly, I wonder how many city experts have had a roo come though their windscreen and then start kicking and thrashing around because it is not quite dead yet? I would hate to imagine what would happen

GF,
Does that bar have crush cans fitted? If so did they compress at all?.
Just wondering how much of a whack is needed to stuff the cans.

Originally Posted by numpty

Nasty, and commiserations. Been there and done that. Hit two roos in two cars five days apart. Wrote off the complete front end of a 180B and then took the drivers side front guard out on the Stage 1.

Will be an expensive exercise methinks.

I would not like to hit a wallaby, let alone a 'roo, in a 180B!