Hi All

I've been unfortunate enough to hit a pheasant Thinking I would arrive at my destination with entrails and few feathers stuck to the grill I was surprised to see...

The small drivers side of the bottom grill missing, the drivers fog light rattling loose and the body coloured bit that surrounds it missing, the bit that covers the headlight washer for the xenons missing and now when I use the screen wash it doesn't extend and just floods inside the bumper with water!

I managed to find the grill bit on my return journey and have popped the fog light back in place though the washer still just floods inside the bumper and few bits of plastic have come from inside (looks like they belong to the fog light/washer assembly.

I'm thinking of sorting it myself and was wondering can I get the fog light surrounds in the body colour or do I need to get it sprayed? Also is the bit that covers the light washer available to buy, it looks like it may have snapped where it attaches. Also, if I can't repair the washer unit, are they readily available (and not too expensive)?

Thanks,

Steven

The fog light surrounds need to be painted. The part numbers are (1z0 807 367 a ) left and (1z0 807 368 a ) right.

The fog light surrounds need to be painted. The part numbers are (1z0 807 367 a ) left and (1z0 807 368 a ) right.

Thanks Chloe, is the drivers side the left or the right, I can never work out if it's the left as you look at it from the front or the right from the back?

The drivers side is the right.

Hi All

I've been unfortunate enough to hit a pheasant Thinking I would arrive at my destination with entrails and few feathers stuck to the grill I was surprised to see...

The small drivers side of the bottom grill missing, the drivers fog light rattling loose and the body coloured bit that surrounds it missing, the bit that covers the headlight washer for the xenons missing and now when I use the screen wash it doesn't extend and just floods inside the bumper with water!

I managed to find the grill bit on my return journey and have popped the fog light back in place though the washer still just floods inside the bumper and few bits of plastic have come from inside (looks like they belong to the fog light/washer assembly.

I'm thinking of sorting it myself and was wondering can I get the fog light surrounds in the body colour or do I need to get it sprayed? Also is the bit that covers the light washer available to buy, it looks like it may have snapped where it attaches. Also, if I can't repair the washer unit, are they readily available (and not too expensive)?

Thanks,

Steven

Bad luck. Happened to me last year and the dealer charged me about £170 to put it all right.

This what mine looked like:

Bad luck. Happened to me last year and the dealer charged me about £170 to put it all right.

This what mine looked like:

That's exactly what mine looks like. I'm surprised the price is so low, I was expecting more. I'll pop into a garage tomorrow for a quote, before almost certainly making matters worse by trying to fix it myself!

Hi StvP,

Bad luck, but **** happens:( and if you had been "driving" an aeroplane it is most likely that the damage would have been much greater.:faint:

My brother once was driving ( ie. "flying" at "slightly" illegal speed:) ) his SAAB99 when he hit a seagull. The bird slid along the bonnet until it hit the fresh air intake flap in front of the windscreen. Result? Half the bird disapered up the windscreen and over the roof. The other half went down into the ventilation system. Seagulls eat fish and when you split them in half it really smells that way too!:Yikes: He spent an entire weekend dismantling the entire ventilation system and cleaning it.

I hate threads like this, makes me nervous.

Every morning (Normally without fail) on my way to work, there is a fresh dead deer at the side of the rode, and I always think to myself, how did the car fair up?

Something I read on here ages ago always makes me chuckle, someone hit a badger which smashed their sump to bits and thought that it had been wearing a crash helmet to do that amount of damge. Sick I know, but every time I see a dead badger I think of that and chuckle to myself.

Hope you get the car fixed OK, I also hope you collected the pheasant and had it for tea, cant waste it!

I hate threads like this, makes me nervous.

Every morning (Normally without fail) on my way to work, there is a fresh dead deer at the side of the rode, and I always think to myself, how did the car fair up?

Something I read on here ages ago always makes me chuckle, someone hit a badger which smashed their sump to bits and thought that it had been wearing a crash helmet to do that amount of damge. Sick I know, but every time I see a dead badger I think of that and chuckle to myself.

Hope you get the car fixed OK, I also hope you collected the pheasant and had it for tea, cant waste it!

I hit a Badger many, many years ago in a Cooper S - it wrote the car off as it pushed the power unit back into the bulkhead so much it shortened the wheelbase by nearly 2 inches! I'm just glad it wasn't a deer though - I think these may have been posted before [not by me] but this is what a deer does to a BMW!?!

Cheers all!

I tried to get some quotes today but the speciaist was closed and theres no Skoda garage around here.

I wasn't "flying" too much certainly not more than +10mph, honest! It can be a fun road especially after dark when the big deers start wandering around the middle of it. I used to know a guy who was forever hitting deer. Quite handily he was a meat inspector, not sure what annoyed him most totalling his car or finding everyone he hit had TB and was therefore inedible!

I've never hit badger, ouch! Once hit a sugarbeet that fell of a lorry though, now that was scary!

If you find hitting deer and badgers a revarding hobby, try reindeer or elks!

Reindeer will most certainly total your car, with a certain risk of injury to the driver, but elks are for the more advanced, often weighing in at more than 1000 pounds they tend to totally wrecking the car even at speeds below the speed limit, and as a bonus they regurarely manage to kill the offending driver.:rotz:

But the most hazardous wildlife you can encounter on our roads during summer is "Fritz und Helga" driving their undermotorized campervan, "wohnmobil", with asthmatic non turbo diesel engine. Pottering along the highway at speeds below 30mph when speed limit is 50mph or more, making absolutely no effort to facilitate overtaking, they often stop abruptly, with no prior warning whatsoever. Fritz rushing out of the "motorized caravan" while shouting: "Helga wo bist das kamera? Ich kann mehrere reintiere darüber sehen!" They both usually keep standing in the road totally amazed and blocking the road. One usually have two options, hitting them with the car risking damage to the paintwork, or pressing the button for your ( very illegal:thumbup: ) Italian made airhorn. ( Yes Officer, I know it is illegal but I only use it to scare wildlife off the road. Certaily Officer I do promise you I will never use it to scare innocent pedestrians. Thank you Sir, that is most understanding of you. ) So when you are sliding past the "krauts" with airhorn at full blast playing "Rule Britannia!", camera flying in one direction, krauts in another and all the reindeer in four other directions, you can't hear him but you read Fritz's lips yelling: "Verdamte Norweger!". One is, I believe, supposed not to hit or run over them. Strange however, as some years back they would give you a medal if you did just that.....:confused: But never mind, I just cant grasp it, yelling at me like that!? Jerry lost the bloody war, didn't they??

You were saying?

Another win for the car!

What is it with people these days? Don't people understand that loandig luggage like that without using the proper roofbars, will tend to ruin the paintwork?:confused: :D

Guess that Mitsubishi Colt doesnt really bother about that....

@Deer-BMW

Boy, he must have hit it at lightspeed... :eek: