I hit a deer!

[deevergote]

Well... part of one. Snapped my lip in two

I was going like 70 on the highway, and this giant chunk of carrion appeared from underneath the car in front of me. I couldn't avoid it, so I just had to take it... I got a nasty "WHACK" (when the lip broke) and then a sickening "shhhhhHHHUNK" as the thing slathered my underside with deer innards...

I'm so glad I'm no lower than I am! 92accordDX would've lost his bumper!


What really sucks now is that I have to remove the two remaining parts of the lip... and I'm sure there are some funky chunks stuck to it. When I got home, my car smelled like burning blood (ever cook a steak and forget to turn the fire off when you take the steak out of the frying pan? yeah...)

[Tone-us]

any pics of the damage? I wanna see the damage.

[wed3k]

w00t, lets see the damage!

[icedplaya123]

That sucks mike you cars gonna look naked w/o a lip i'm glad that your ok, just put it this way it coulda been alot worse!!

[brownaznkid]

Re: I hit a deer!

Originally posted by deevergote
What really sucks now is that I have to remove the two remaining parts of the lip... and I'm sure there are some funky chunks stuck to it. When I got home, my car smelled like burning blood (ever cook a steak and forget to turn the fire off when you take the steak out of the frying pan? yeah...)

yummy, lol

tough break man (no pun intended) at least it was just the lip and not the full bumper

[ACCORDianate]

At least you're OK. I hit a coyote last Dec 23 and it cracked the hell out of my front bumper cover, destroyed passenger side bumper light, destroyed a foglight, broke the passenger headlight bracket, and the passenger corner light was hanging on by the wiring only. It also dented the passenger side horn and bent the radiator (had to be replaced 3 months later).

Just by hitting a 35# animal it can do a lot of damage. Even if you went mostly over a deer carcass check for other damages underneath.

[JDMcb7]

Ouch man, deer are no fun. Glad to hear the damage wasn't too extensive.

[excalibur02]

damn papa deev lol. j/k yea it sucks to hit a deer. around last year same thing happened to me. and u guys that know me know how low my car is. i hit a dead deer just like u. it was like a foot long and my car was low. i hit the damn thing at nite didnt see it. all i heard was scrape and then the smell was there.

it was so fukin nasty. i pulled over and found little bones and furry hair all over my exhaust pipe. it was a rainy day so i went to near by puddles that are big and just washed it off driving back and forth.

shiznit was nasty.
and the lip yea u can get another from certifit only 20 bux u know that. and this time cut the sides off and make it fit better lol

mauricio

glad to hear ur fine tho

[deevergote]

Originally posted by excalibur02
damn papa deev lol. j/k yea it sucks to hit a deer. around last year same thing happened to me. and u guys that know me know how low my car is. i hit a dead deer just like u. it was like a foot long and my car was low. i hit the damn thing at nite didnt see it. all i heard was scrape and then the smell was there.

it was so fukin nasty. i pulled over and found little bones and furry hair all over my exhaust pipe. it was a rainy day so i went to near by puddles that are big and just washed it off driving back and forth.

shiznit was nasty.
and the lip yea u can get another from certifit only 20 bux u know that. and this time cut the sides off and make it fit better lol

mauricio

glad to hear ur fine tho

So you know what it's about!

And yeah, Sean said a new lip would be my Christmas present, so we're gonna go grab one soon... I wonder if a lip from any other models would fit? Eh, I'll prolly just do the 5th gen again. And yeah, I'll make it fit better this time (like97Lude's, his looks damn near perfect).

[AccordWarrior]

Hey Deever...

2 words...

BRAKES...STEERING

those are good things!

j/k man.

Well, since you've done it once it shouldn't be that hard to do it again, just sucks that you have to go through the trouble.

As far as other lips, I believe Huy had a Civic one, I think a 88-91? MX-6 lip might fit, but its a 2 piece unit. I can't think of any other interchanges off the top of my head. I know a kid that used black lawn edging, looked really good, almost looked like a mugen lip. Cheap and kinda cheesy, sure, but effective, you bet.

[deevergote]

70mph with traffic on my left and a wall on my right... and someone behind me. Steering and brakes were worthless at the time. I wish I realized that the trail of entrails that appeared a second before the chunk was a good warning... still, I may have hit it if I tried to change lanes... hitting it with one of my new wheels... THAT could've sent me into traffic for sure! I'm just glad it was dead center!

I'll have to ask huy if he has pics of the Civic lip. That could be cool.