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Yep. Its true. hit a frieken kangaroo out on inkpen road just before/past bakers hill. first roo ive hit since the go kart incident so damn lucky though. goin bout 60 km/h (i knew somethin bad was gonna happen, so i kept speed down). roo jumped out, i broke, copped him juuuuuust on the left side of my front bumper. didnt hurt my car much aside from some fur imbedded in the bumper, but the roo had a very bad day! haha im not even on my L's yet, and already i experience this stuff? dang! (14 days and countin WOOO)

thats my story. whats yours? share your animal-hitting stories (people are animals, but for the sake of lawsuits, DON'T say a word)

edit: Watch your language.

collectd a few in my sedan. cost me 2 bumpers and a rear drivers doors (big dent as the thing bolted into it!) did one better in a nissan sedan- that one tokk the front off the car and $3.5k later did it again! sold that car as it liked roos too much.

Hit two at once one evening coming back home from a long trip through the bush, driving down a tar road in a State Forests pine plantation.

Probably doing 110 when I saw them, hit the brakes (probably a bit too hard) but kept my nerve and didn't swerve. Both had just landed when I collected them. Only damage was too the front apron, which I ended up removing that weeek anyway!

Just missed a roo yesterday. Out on a club trip going about 80km's, veered left to miss a car., line up for the narrow bridge, then Skippy jumps out from the left. Good thing is he kept going. If I hit him the Brumby would have been toast.

i was driving back from adelaide last year in me VY SS commodore, cruising bout 110, mayb a tad faster, little baby jumped out in front hit the front left of the car, didnt even have a chance to brake, tore off the front of the car..

$3000 later and the cars ok, its amazing what a little animal can do when driving at speed...


dave

hit a few roos over the years......
yah! for a sturdy bar out front...not much damage...
front bonnet dent, and never fixed it, and
part of the number plate is wrapped under the bar tho;)

mostly avoided now at night, by having corner lights to light the sides...
having just beams on is simply inviting roos to jump in front.

I to have hit many a roo. Glade that you and the car are relatively unscaved.

living up the hills(until recently) ive come so close to collecting a few myself.
invest in a $5 roo whistler to keep em away tho i swear they work hey.

When dad was a wee bit younger, he had an old holden, and he made up this big a$$ farm gate for the front.

One day him and a mate of his were out on one of the country roads and he saw rain clouds ahead.

Now anyone knows you dont stop when you mix rain and blacksoil in the same sentence...and what was he on........blacksoil.

He told his mate to keep an eye out for animals......

About 10km's from bitumen, (doing in the vacinity of fast) his mate calls out PIIIGS.

Dad curses and puts his foot down cos he wasnt stopping.

He looked over at the pigs, and they were heading in his direction.

He got every single pig (about 15). His bullbar was more related to a banana after that, but if he hadnt have had it on, they would have been sitting in mud for a loong time.

Must have been really small pigs.

Mike.

They were all lined up like dominoes

The scratchings so far -
Countless rabbits
6 pigeons
3 roos
1 goat
1 duck
And a Brahman bull.
And the only one that put a dent in the car was the Duck! Flew in between the spotties and top bar of the bullbar and hit the bonnet.
The missus also hit a roo last week in the hilux. No damage though. I think the bullbars have paid for themselves already.

Hit a kookaburra a couple of years ago. Driving out to Boonah, the kookaburra was eating at a bit of road kill on the road. Saw me approach, started to fly up, didn't quite clear the top of the bullbar, got him with the spotlights.
They always say you are what you eat, that must be true.

You are what you eat , in the Kooaburra's case , DEAD !.

Mike.

Was a passenger in my ol mans Prado a few years back, an a fat roo jumped out in front. Dad sped up, cause he is mad, and the roo went under, hit the bash plate, was knocked sideways into the right hand side Hub, and was extruded through the blade-style mag wheel!!! All we saw was a stream of guts and fur billowing from the side of the car. lol. Made a damn mess of the under body and side of the car, but was funny at the time. It completely munted the roo, as all that was left intact was a leg and tail stuck in the brake calliper, and on the axle.
The stench that caught us later was horrific though lol.

PHATnob wrote:Was a passenger in my ol mans Prado a few years back, an a fat roo jumped out in front. Dad sped up, cause he is mad, and the roo went under, hit the bash plate, was knocked sideways into the right hand side Hub, and was extruded through the blade-style mag wheel!!! All we saw was a stream of guts and fur billowing from the side of the car. lol. Made a damn mess of the under body and side of the car, but was funny at the time. It completely munted the roo, as all that was left intact was a leg and tail stuck in the brake calliper, and on the axle.
The stench that caught us later was horrific though lol.

Mmmmmmm Baked Roo minced. :P

hahahahahahahahahahaa awwww poor prado.

couple months back in my dads courier, on our way to perth just headin past the army camp on the bypass. goin bout 120km/h as you do, jumpin along on the stupid fat tyres. all of a sudden, 4ft roo jumps out from the bush. couldnt brake, couldnt swerve, so dad aimed it up to the pillar of the bullbar.... aaaaand SPLAT!! blood on the windscreen and stuck between its teeth (the grille). reckon if it didnt hit the pillar, it probably would have fucked us up haha yaay i almost died! fun stuff

PHATnob wrote:Was a passenger in my ol mans Prado a few years back, an a fat roo jumped out in front. Dad sped up, cause he is mad, and the roo went under, hit the bash plate, was knocked sideways into the right hand side Hub, and was extruded through the blade-style mag wheel!!! All we saw was a stream of guts and fur billowing from the side of the car. lol. Made a damn mess of the under body and side of the car, but was funny at the time. It completely munted the roo, as all that was left intact was a leg and tail stuck in the brake calliper, and on the axle.
The stench that caught us later was horrific though lol.

I love it, imagine if you were going the other way with the window open....eeewww.

Jordan.