If you gotta run over a carcass...

techietaichi · 05-29-2015, 12:34 AM

I just came across a couple of damage pics I forgot about and wanted to share. So a few months ago while going into work I'm speeding along when god damn, I spot a carcass in the road. I couldn't lane change as there was a car along side me(I was in the fast/left lane), couldn't apply brakes or I'd have taken one in the ass (another car was like 2 lengths behind me), so the only alternative was hit the thing and hope for the best..."Thud, thud"...whew! Yeah, whew my ass.

I want to say it was a medium sized dog, but I'll never be sure. All I know was me, Brian and Mike over at Schneller BMW(one of the great indie shops in my area) was pulling fur away from what was left of the under cover/skid plate. That thing nearly tore off half of it. Long story longer, I bought a new one for $140 I think and the dealership cleaned up the underside and installed that piece for $20! Just for the record, Tulley BMW in NH does not suck. Anyway, the moral of this story is, if you gotta run over a carcass, make sure it's a squirrel.

thkfast · 05-29-2015, 02:08 AM

Great story. I feel for ya. The day I picked up my 335is I ended up following too close to a semi...wait for it...he straddled one of those aluminum ladders they use to climb up a travel trailer and I had no where to go. Clank, clunk, pow, boing, wham.

Rats.

Bad bad bad.

bloppitybloop · 05-29-2015, 07:10 AM

So did you save any of the animal to eat?

slimxb8 · 05-29-2015, 07:32 AM

Reminded me back in the day I had a lowered Civic, interstate at night in the middile of BFE... I see in the middle of my lane a trail of heavy blood look up and deer right in the center of my lane. too late to do anything but clinch up. Car 3 inches off ground... deer at least 11 inches, I bet I fillet-ed his ass good. No damage that I found, but the dogs sure were sniffing around when I pulled in. Did find some blood on the door and skirts the next day.

techietaichi · 05-29-2015, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by reckedhim

So did you save any of the animal to eat?

Nah, was probably rotten anyways, but I did contemplate saving the fur so my granny could knit a beanie to commemorate the event. Hahaha, I freaking had enough.

Wilt · 05-29-2015, 10:31 PM

You drove over a CARcass, I drove over a TRUCKass back in the 70s in a low British sports car...pickup truck in front of me dropped its spare tire right into my path at 60mph in heavy highway traffic so, like you, I could not change lanes. Tore up my front steering linkage mighty well, right at a time when spare parts were not coming due to a factory labor strike.

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techietaichi Major 294 Rep 1,311 Posts Drives: 2006 325i Pre-LCI & 2010 X3 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Massghanistan, USA iTrader: (1)	If you gotta run over a carcass... I just came across a couple of damage pics I forgot about and wanted to share. So a few months ago while going into work I'm speeding along when god damn, I spot a carcass in the road. I couldn't lane change as there was a car along side me(I was in the fast/left lane), couldn't apply brakes or I'd have taken one in the ass (another car was like 2 lengths behind me), so the only alternative was hit the thing and hope for the best..."Thud, thud"...whew! Yeah, whew my ass. I want to say it was a medium sized dog, but I'll never be sure. All I know was me, Brian and Mike over at Schneller BMW(one of the great indie shops in my area) was pulling fur away from what was left of the under cover/skid plate. That thing nearly tore off half of it. Long story longer, I bought a new one for $140 I think and the dealership cleaned up the underside and installed that piece for $20! Just for the record, Tulley BMW in NH does not suck. Anyway, the moral of this story is, if you gotta run over a carcass, make sure it's a squirrel. __________________
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thkfast Major 261 Rep 1,029 Posts Drives: 2015 F82 M4 Sakhir Orange DCT Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cedar Rapids, IA iTrader: (1)	Great story. I feel for ya. The day I picked up my 335is I ended up following too close to a semi...wait for it...he straddled one of those aluminum ladders they use to climb up a travel trailer and I had no where to go. Clank, clunk, pow, boing, wham. Rats. Bad bad bad. __________________ "The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity with which others attempt to prove him wrong." 2015 F82 M4 - Sakhir Orange Metallic 2013 E92 M3 / 2013 E92 335is / 2010 E90 335i / 2007 E90 335i
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slimxb8 First Lieutenant 51 Rep 308 Posts Drives: 2007 328i Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Chicago iTrader: (0) Garage List 2007 BMW 328i [0.00]	Reminded me back in the day I had a lowered Civic, interstate at night in the middile of BFE... I see in the middle of my lane a trail of heavy blood look up and deer right in the center of my lane. too late to do anything but clinch up. Car 3 inches off ground... deer at least 11 inches, I bet I fillet-ed his ass good. No damage that I found, but the dogs sure were sniffing around when I pulled in. Did find some blood on the door and skirts the next day.
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Wilt Major 228 Rep 1,047 Posts Drives: 2011 328i Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: SF Bay area iTrader: (0)	You drove over a CARcass, I drove over a TRUCKass back in the 70s in a low British sports car...pickup truck in front of me dropped its spare tire right into my path at 60mph in heavy highway traffic so, like you, I could not change lanes. Tore up my front steering linkage mighty well, right at a time when spare parts were not coming due to a factory labor strike.
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