This reminds me of quite a few years ago when i bought a red rover 216 (don't know what possessed me to buy it but i did) anyway 1st day i had it i hit a pheasant (dead pheasant and cracked number plate). A couple of weeks late i hit a Ginger cat (no damage to the car apart from a lot of ginger fur around the front end of the car and a cat coming out from under the car doing about 100mph)and lastly i nearly hit another cat which ran out in front of me, the reason it was running was a big black Labrador was chasing it...Yes you know what's coming next..the dog went straight under my front wheels...believe me not a pretty site...thats when i realised it was time to get rid of the rover asap !!!!!
On the same road as well just to rub salt into the wounds
This time when it hit the car it bounced up in the air rather gracefully
Pulled over to look at the damage remember previous it had smashed my lower grill on my pug to pieces same speed around 60 to 70.
But to my surprise its simply broke the vw chrome badge in the grill the theiving bird has robbed it . One guy on the VAG forum said he must be a big fan of 80's rap ie.... public enemy or beastie boys £27 for a new badge.
Reviews on the passat front end is far stronger than the pug's just have to watch for those theiving pigeons
Unbelievable rappy! Must mean that you're a bird magnet!
Glad it's a reasonably cheap fix matey!
1996 406 1.8LX Got a bad case of hydro lock!
1996 406 Executive 2.0 Turbo XU10J2TE No longer hangin' on in there
1997 Honda CB500V
2003 Volvo V40 1.8 GDi SE killed by a nutter in a beemer 5 series
2008 Mondeo 2.0 TDCi Titanium X
"Always look on the bright side of life, dedo, dedo dedodedo"
The bumper on the 406 doesnt hold well in impacts with animals. The slightest tip will crack the bottom bracket but at least you can just change the bracket rather that the entire bumper.
Passats are 'rounder' at the front so perhaps it deflects the rat with wings away rather than runs through it like the merciless 406. If I was a pidgeon I'd stay well clear of 406's. But Im not a pidgeon, Im a man
2000 D9 Coupé 2.0 SE EW10J4 Scarlet Red - 5 litres of oil gone in 500 miles!!! Time for a new coupe me thinks
I have to admit to taking out a wood pigeon with mine, stupid bugger just sat in the middle of the road, i slowed down it eventually took off into my bumper. Cue comedy moment of my friend who was following driving through a cloud of feathers laughing his a$$ off. In this case it was Pug 1 Pigeon 0, even managed to drive around for the next few days with some feathers still wedged in the bumper. Think I still have a photo of it somewhere, must just have been lucky where I hit it.
98 1.8 LX 406 Saloon - Dead
05 2.0 HDi 407 Saloon - Slightly more alive
People keep telling me I'm far too patronising - That means I treat them as if they were stupid...
