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Re: CRASHHHH!!!! (archive)
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Posted by SteveO. on May 27, 2001 at 00:46:50:

In Reply to: CRASHHHH!!!! posted by Andy on May 26, 2001 at 17:49:04:

Did close to the same thing with my bimmer. Now you have to picture that my 735i sits pretty low and has a Racing Dynamics body kit (the bottom of the spoiler sits probably 6 inches off the ground). Getting on to the highway, starting to nicely accelerate when all of the sudden a rabbit runs across my path. I instictively hit the brakes hard, causing the front end to drop a bit (probably only 4 inches off the ground now) and BAMM. All I saw out of my rear view mirrow was a cloud of fur. Pulled over to find the spoiler drooping and both fog lights dangling.

Took it into the body shop and I think it was $3,500 US to repair (had to replace the entire bumper assembly - probably some previous owner caused damage was found as associated to this incident). When I told my friends that a rabbit did that amount of damage to my car, they naturally assume it was a Volkswagen, not a bunny.

Steve O.
88 735i



Picture the scene....6.30 am Sunday last and i'm surfin'the clean cobalt surface of a tarmacadam ocean...the CDs singing. The sun is clinging to the edges of the world ahead of me... wrenching itself from its solar hibernation...throwing daggers of light across the surface's of the monolithic boulders which form the mausoleum like temple, known internationally as Stonhenge, seen just ahead of me...beyond the long piercing silver hood of my 735. (the 735 i've owned just 6 short weeks) BANNNGGGG...IIIYERRRRWHATTTTHEEFUCCCCCCCCcccccc...the soft slight tan and snowy hindquarters of a dog sized rabbit tap some bizzare last message across the now blood streaked silver hood of my 735. Close your proud 7 series eyes and imagine my predicament. The insurers have written the car off. The damage totals £3600 english pounds. I am to be beaten by a suicidal rabbit...like hell. The car is allready half way through repairs..just one thing you sympathetic sniggerers may be able to help with...I am being charged £300 for a headlamp adjuster kit...do I need this, can I live without it?? Andy, Bath, England. 1991 735 - 140k




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