I Dis-Like Kangaroos

[Froudey]

Well Froudey hit a god damn roo. will post pics up tomorrow.

i was coming back from newy after a short day trip and 5:30 this arvo driving between Merriwa and Dunedoo outta no were BANG a bloody roo. rang insurance and will go from there so maybe i will have a nice new shiny shiny front end for the all ford day on the 31st.

it damaged the xr6's inner lights smashed, grille area smashed, drivers head light all the tabs are broken, bonnet is kafucted and condenser is dented but no leaks. so now i got to pay an excess of 550 but i suppose it isn't all bad if i got to pay that as the front ends are pricy..

Originally Posted by Froudey

as you can see it looks like very minor damage but it has bent the A/C Condensor, bent and bowed the bonnet, damaged the inner highbeam lenses, cracked the assembly behind the lights itself, busted the passanger side bar blinker the bar is buggered the grille area was destroyed the ford badge has gone and that is about it. got a couple of quotes went to one panel beater he didn't give me the impression didn't seem keen as it didn't seem like he noticed all the broken bits, but the second i went to now he gave me the impression he wanted to do the job, the car was parked on some shitty gravel out the front of his work shoop get got down and looked underneath and looked behind the bar etc explain the bonnet frame was bent and bowed. He explained that he would replace most of the front apart from the low beams as they seemd intact. told me he would have to respray the guards a tad to blend all the new paint work in.

so yeah next week she should be going to get repaired.

so MY car is getting fixed and should be ready next week, by john lile smash repairs in Dubbo. You remember them mainly Jay and his 1968 XT Falcon that was featured in "Street Fords Present POWER special"

So it will be done right the first time, they all ready have the front end bare considering i only dropped it off wednesday morn.

[ebxr8240]

Is the Roo o/k ??

[gcg2503]

midget kangaroo?

[Froudey]

Roo is dead and it was only a baby

[gcg2503]

As long as you are Ok mate that's all that matters. Didnt think it was a big roo as they basically can write off a car!

Dont tell the tree huggers you killed a Joey as they will hang you in the centre of town

[Geez Louise]

Ouch...I am feeling your pain. I know exactly what it is like to hit a roo...looks like your car was hit in a similar spot to ours...We needed to replace, bonnet, grille, spotlights.

Hope you get it fixed quickly and yes, the main thing is that you are okay. Cars can be replaced...but you can't.

[motorcycles4eva]

they're rock solid the roo's aren't they..
lucky you're ok mate.. did you have a bbq with the roo meat??

[BFZ Wagon]

At least you are ok. That's the main thing. Cars and their parts can be replaced. It looks like you got off fairly well actually, with not a lot of damage. It could have been a lot worse. Roo's tend to make a make a huge mess of a front end (especially the big ones) and sometimes they can even end up hitting the windscreen or going through it!
At least you'll get a shiny new front out of it.

[Elks]

Originally Posted by Geez Louise

Ouch...I am feeling your pain. I know exactly what it is like to hit a roo...looks like your car was hit in a similar spot to ours...We needed to replace, bonnet, grille, spotlights.

Hope you get it fixed quickly and yes, the main thing is that you are okay. Cars can be replaced...but you can't.

what she said..

the old work SSV after an incident with a roo

[mik]

inconsiderate buggers those Roos!, how fast where you goin at the time ?, good thing your insured,...... glad your ok

[alecrain]

Originally Posted by gcg2503

As long as you are Ok mate that's all that matters. Didnt think it was a big roo as they basically can write off a car!

Dont tell the tree huggers you killed a Joey as they will hang you in the centre of town

He didn't kill the joey, the roo killed it self on his car!

[csv8]

Try hitting an emu !!!! see feathers fly !!!

[james22]

haha lol. done that, the bastard rolled 15million times, then his legs sprang outta nowhere and he was gone at 100clicks... bloody amazing

[Jason[98.EL]]

Sorry to see your car look that way

i remember when i hit a roo it hit so low on the car that we thought we hit a wambat

it done a heapmore damage to the car than what you received but the bright side is that you walked away I have seen/heard of to many people injured when hitting a roo

Jason

[jcxr]

My daughter came home a bit peeved last night as she had JUST missed a 'roo near our house.

[Froudey]

I had my sister in the car and when i spung around to go check the roo out, it was dead i was going to chuck in the boot and take it out the parents for dog meat but the sister woulnd't have a bar of it

Any way my car is getting fixed and should be ready next week, by john lile smash repairs in Dubbo. You remember them mainly Jay and his 1968 XT Falcon that was featured in Issue 4 and again in "Street Fords Present POWER special"

So it will be done right the first time, they all ready have the front end bare considering i only dropped it off wednesday morn. and hopefully it will be ready to rock and roll for the AFD coming up

[alter_EGOXR]

glad to hear your okay mate! and that doesnt look to bad...i tend to find that when the sun goes down, the roos seem to get more "adventurous"...anyways post up some pics when you get your ride back!!

[DJM83]

Good to hear your ok mate.

Speaking of roos, my partners old man test drives cars for a living. Heading down the hume to return a new VRX magna a roo jumped out in front and wrecked the frontend but it was still driveable. Not sure what mitsu said when he returned the test car :

[05b8050]

i had a really clean XE fairmont fuel injected 6 5speed great car was red and had simmonds B45s pollished hit a COW at 85 kms an hour it was a foggy morn just outside ballarat black cow black road was layin asleep in the middle of the road rooted the front bent the chassis the rear doors struggled to open kinked the roof went over it then down a ditch cut my head whenthe car came to a stop i was in the passenger seat still holdin the gear stick in my hand sheered it off guess i forgot my seat belt that day was lucky

[ieatsports_cars]

gees your lucky !

[greenfoam]

So long as you ended up better off than the kangaroo you really cant complain. He's dead and you only have a minor ding. I never get upset about the car at times like that. It's only plastic/metal/paint and isn't alive. But I do get excited when I miss one

[AC]

Consider yourself lucky, You got off really lite.
Most people are not lucky enough to drive away.

Apparently a NRMA study done a few years ago found that the Central West has the highest rate of write offs due to Roo strikes than another other region in the state.

One of my mates is a towie out that way, so i hear about theses things.
And get to see some interesting wrecks...
If Roos aren't killing cars, then the drivers are. And themselves sometimes unfortunately.

[XDV800]

It'll buff... sorry won't go there.
Roos don't do as much damage as a pig!
Spend $6000 on Ebay and you'll have the front replicated in no time...

[Watto_Cobra]

I've hit four roos, three within site of my house, lucky they were low speed, not the kinda damage you copped. Hope it comes up like new for you.

I was asleep in the passenger seat when my brother hit a wombat in a TE Cortina. Woke me up quick smart. Luckily he'd swerved enough to run over only it's head, only damage was a cup washer on the shock turned inside-out.

[Spanrz]

You were lucky there that the roo didn't bounce or go through the windscreen.

Without sounding mundane, I've hit a wombat. Some scary stuff there.

Didn't see him in bad fog (less than 100 metres vision) at 2am.
Luckily I hit him with the center of the vehicle. Otherwise it would have shot me into trees either side of the road.

It is sad when things like this happen, but it's a case of "it's you or the animal".

[Geez Louise]

It's amazing too how time seems to slow down when you are about to hit something and you know there is nothing you can do to stop it...well that how it was for us when we hit our oversized mouse...could see it hopping, couldn't swerve, braked hard and gave our tyres sever flat spots..But what else can you do??

[InfernoSR]

I hate Kangaroo's!!

kangaroo heading into Moree from Narrabri...


Dislike Holdens even more...

Holden ute in Narrabri...

[Bushbasher]

Lucky you didn't have more damage. Here's my NF after I hit a mid sized roo at 100kpm. You can just see it on the road in the top left of the pic in the background.



There was a set of Lightforce 240s' on the front that took the full force and just exploded into fragments on impact and soaked up most of the force. The rest doesn't look too bad but it was still enough to write off the car. Bonnet, bumber, radiator support panel pushed back 1". Car was still perfectly drivable but cost of repair was more than market value. I was told $5k to replace the radiator support panel .

Bushbasher

[Mr Hardware]

Bugger fellas, they're some un-nice pics to add to the dis-like of kangaroos.
I had my first kangaroo experience whilst driving last week, thankfully a new set of QFM pads to go along with my twin-pot calipers managed to do the trick. Scared me however.

Also, Froudey, Leave it as is! Looks tough that way...

[TURBOTAXI]

This was a $5000 repair on my XR6T, bugger came out of nowhere