by Shdwdrgn » Sun May 08, 2016 4:50 am
Damn it all to hell, this is just not my year. Tonight coming home from a friend's house we hit a deer out on the highway. I'll get some pics tomorrow morning, but the damage was amazing superficial (unless you're a deer). The deer was killed on impact, hit on the front but mostly on the driver's side. So now the left quarter-panel also needs replaced, plus the hood. The left headlight is completely gone, I'll have to check to see what kind of framework was supposed to be behind it. Other than the body panels, none of the metal behind the headlight is bent. A lot of the force was taken by the bumper and pushbar, but neither of them were bent in the slightest (that I can see).
So now I'll have to pull the left quarter out of the door, which only opens about half way, and then start assessing what I need to buy to get the headlight repaired. Amazingly the fog light wasn't damaged at all, so I as able to turn them on for the trip home so people could actually see my left side. It was a long trip, too, almost an hour and a half drive, and we had *just* left our friend's house.
Doesn't seem like we have any injuries though, I slammed on the brakes as fast as I could and had dropped to maybe around 30 when we hit. Just really annoyed now that there's even more damage to my poor truck, but at least I haven't started doing body repairs from the first accident, so I can get all the painting done at one time and save some money there.
GT5/G80, 265/70-16, PCMforLess + personal tuning, quad headlights
Self-made steel front bumper / pushbar / skid / CAI / lightbar