Modern cars are great

"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben) 07/25/2018 at 21:17 • Filed to: None

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my stepdad walloped a big ass  buck on his way home from work today. This was the resulting damage. Not bad at all.

Aremmes > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 21:25

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It should not surprise you that a moose-rated Volvo can survive a collision with a deer. Like, that was in the product planning feature list and all.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 21:47

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He was lucky, those headlight assemblies aren’t cheap.

Your boy, BJR > Aremmes 07/25/2018 at 21:53

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Well now I know- moose tested: not just some marketing bullshit to make it seem more Swedish.

boredalways > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 22:05

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Glad he's ok

Svend > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 22:14

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Oh Deer, looks like he gave it a grilling.

Volvo have always been safety conscious .

((*of gets deflected and runs off)). 

Spaceball-Two > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 22:15

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Didn’t he kill a Viggen the same way?

Your boy, BJR > Spaceball-Two 07/25/2018 at 22:23

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That was my actual dad.

Spaceball-Two > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 22:25

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Oh ok

ranwhenparked > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 22:27

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Sometimes you get lucky and hit one just right. I smacked a deer at 45ish mph in a Mustang, and all it did was bend a plastic strut behind the grille. Straightened it out by hand, and everything looked fine.

On the other hand, I hit one broadside in a Cadillac Fleetwood and demolished everything forward of the firewall, save the bumper and passenger fender. The intestines were mashed into the radiator, which didn’t smell great. No frame damage obviously, so that was still repairable. A few years later, in the same car,  one jumped over the road and clipped the driver side fender with one of its back hooves, left a golf ball sized ding. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 22:47

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He was lucky, modern cars are often totally destroyed by a deer, must have only glanced it. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Your boy, BJR 07/25/2018 at 22:50

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Well moose are quite tall, they generally fall on the roof above the windshield, or also into the windshield and really fuck things up. Volvos are strong in that area for a reason, also why the Saabs technically didn’t need a rollbar for rally when they entered.