Was driving my wife to the airport early yesterday morning. Our home is about 30 feet above the main road and deer like to cross there after coming down the slope from our house. I saw the doe jump into the road, hit the brakes, and slowed from 35mph to about 15mph before hitting her flank with the left headlamp assembly. She got up and limped away, possibly with some broken ribs, the legs looked fine.
Pulled over down the road where i could get under a streetlamp and looked at the damage. In that light it looked like it was simply the front bumper, which popped out below the headlight assembly to the front quarter panel. I slipped it back in and kept driving to the airport. Didn't have time to take a close look yesterday but did a bit of an inspection in the garage earlier today and found:
Pulled over down the road where i could get under a streetlamp and looked at the damage. In that light it looked like it was simply the front bumper, which popped out below the headlight assembly to the front quarter panel. I slipped it back in and kept driving to the airport. Didn't have time to take a close look yesterday but did a bit of an inspection in the garage earlier today and found:
- Small, 1/4" crack in the nosecone
- Scratches on the bumper below the headlight assembly and next to the nosecone
- The corner where the bumper mates with the quarter panel has a hole with a screw, that hole is now a slot
- Headlight assembly bracket (make of plastic) snapped
- Lens cover inside headlight dislodged
- Might be some broken clips where bumper attaches since it sits proud of fog light assembly and has more give than the passenger side
- Hood sits a bit high at the very front, might be able to adjust