Jaguar killed by herd of deer!

[The Seeker]

Well, the hits just keep on coming from my soon to be X-Wife......

Last evening she calls me rather frantically saying that an entire herd of deer rammed into her Jaguar as she was driving home from work.

She's not hurt, but the poor Jag is a mess!

She said she was cruising along the very rural road leading home when she was suddenly engulfed with deer smashing into the side of the car. Heavy woods border both sides of this road so she had virtually no warning.

The passenger side front door, front fender, hood, and headlamp is destroyed. Plus there are tufts of deer stuck to it in places.

She killed one deer outright on the spot, but who knows how many others were injured?

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[Rocky]

Oh brother, what a scary incident!
No injuries to the lady it appears so that's a blessing.

 

[DaveM]

Shame man that sure is not a nice thing to happen, can the Jag be fixed ok then

 

[The Seeker]

Shame man that sure is not a nice thing to happen, can the Jag be fixed ok then

I'd rather wish the Jag was a write-off, but that's not the case. It can probably be repaired much to my dismay.

My insurance will cover the costs, minus the deductible, which I believe is $1000.00

 

[CarlS]

I am glad she was not injured. $1000 hurts right here at Christmas time. I have seen lots of folks hit one deer and maybe two; but a whole herd?

 

[dazco]

$1000 is cheap ! I have a littledent on my car estimated at more than 1/2 of that and it's just a little dent the size of a softball and a 1/2" deep ! She must have been exaggerating some? Crazy thing tho ! Imagine a bike into a herd of deer ! Oh DEAR !!!

 

[CarlS]

$1000 is cheap ! I have a littledent on my car estimated at more than 1/2 of that and it's just a little dent the size of a softball and a 1/2" deep ! She must have been exaggerating some? Crazy thing tho ! Imagine a bike into a herd of deer ! Oh DEAR !!!

Now that would NOT be fun!

 

[The Seeker]

Well, we thought the car was drivable, but when she left for work and got about a mile or so away she saw the temperature gauge climbing.

She turned around and went home from where she called me to ask me to take her to work.

When I got there you could hear the electric fan running (engine off) and scraping the radiator. It must have put a hole in the radiator cause there was a trail of anti-freeze on the driveway.

 

[CarlS]

That will surely add expense to the repair.

 

[The Seeker]

That will surely add expense to the repair.

Ya think?

I dunno.....maybe some duct tape and/or some JB Weld would work?

 

[CarlS]

What's the name of that stuff we used to pour into the radiators of tractors and trucks? That would fix you right up.

 

[The Seeker]

Bardal radiator sealer?

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[CarlS]

I used Bardal and Bars. The one I was thinking fo came in atube about the size of a small prescription bottle. It looked like copper flakes. This is the nearest thing I could find to it:

 

[donroger1]

So AJ. I am assuming that She gets the Jag........

 

[hemibee]

Bars Leak was the radiator stuff that looked like copper. You can also use white pepper to plug the leak.


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[The Seeker]

So AJ. I am assuming that She gets the Jag........

Yes....it was for her anyhow. But I keep my MINI Cooper!



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[The Seeker]

Guys....I don't think any stop leak will help when the fans are scaping the radiator.

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[DaveM]

That does not sound good at all and if the motor overheated even worse

 

[The Seeker]

No....it never completely overheated. The temp gauge rose up but never got into the red zone.



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[CarlS]

That is a very good thing!