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#1
06-29-2007, 11:16 AM
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Have any metros hit a deer?
I live south of Spokane, WA where there are more deer than you can shake a
stick at. They come out at night (sometimes even in daylight!) and now I drive in the evening to teach a night class. I have always been scared of hitting a deer - some are huge! My son had a large Buck with a huge Rack jump out in front of him and it caved in his hood, jumped up and ran away! I am supposing that hitting a deer in a low, sloped Geo Metro might end up with the deer in the driver's or passenger's seat.... So I'd like to know if anyone has had this experience or know of such.... DoctorBill
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#2
06-29-2007, 07:09 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
Not in a Metro, but I hit one with a Hyundai Elantra a couple of years ago and it did a ton of damage. Last year my son hit one with a Hyundai Accent which is very similar to a Metro and did very little damage. Both deer ate pretty good though.
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#4
07-01-2007, 07:32 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
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You got a Deer that hit a telephone pole? I've hit 2 at once when driving a semi.....and another at a different time...again in a semi. Tore the crap out of both trucks!  Hit a coyote in the Metro, bout the size of a baby T-Rex as I recall. Two more and I'm an ACE!
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#5
07-06-2007, 11:22 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
I took on a deer 3 weeks ago going 55mph Hood was bent is all. I got lucky. The deer flew over my car and killed. Radiator didnt even leak!
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#6
07-27-2007, 11:31 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
My wife hit a deer in our 1996 metro on the intersate doing 65 mph it caught the front driver side bumper and went over the top of the car.Damage was in need of an outside mirror,wiper arms,cowl,radiator and of course a hood.I was surprised that the air bags did not deploy.The deer didnt make it but the little metro ran all the way home!
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#7
07-29-2007, 09:57 AM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
I've been SO WORRIED that the Deer would come in thru the windshield!
Looks like the FLYING WEDGE shape of the earlier Metros scoops them up and over the top...God, I hope so when my turn comes! We have more of these damned Deer around here than you can shake a stick at! Big suckers, too! Even had a Female Moose eating apples off of a tree in our yard. Talk about homely beasts.... The Deer like to pop out of the tall grass or shrubs at the side of the road and stare at you as you slam the brakes on and scream obscenities at them...then slowly walk away as if you are something too stupid and annoying to bother with. I'm all for free deer hunting licenses to everyone who wants to hunt them. The worst of all, however, are the dumb, pea brained Pheasants. Gozillions of them around here. Pheasants walk along the roadside and just as you get close to them, decide to FLY across your path - at low altitude. Bam! Out goes a headlight! Plastic headlight frames don't do well when Pheasants hit them at 55 mph. We have huge raccoons too! Big as a large dog - and into everything! Lot of skunks - makes your vehicle really aromatic when you hit one! Aahh, the wilderness.....settlers in the old West must have eaten well. DoctorBill
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#8
07-30-2007, 08:57 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
I am considering moving out in the country and would have to travel a windy road that has a lot of deer and was wondering and this may sound stupid but could a brush guard be installed on a Metro front?
I know it might look kind of lame but hey if it saved car damage if deer hit car it would be worth it. Mark
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#9
07-31-2007, 06:05 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
How would you weld a Brush Guard on a Metro? !! then again - Brush and
Deer are a tad different in mass.... If you hit a 150 lb buck at 55 mph, I doubt that anything except a FULL METAL JACKET welded as a cage inside of which is the Metro would do you any good. How about three 4 inch Chromed metal tubes in an inverted "C" shape running from under the front bumper over the top of the car and curving back down under the back bumper? You'd look like some sort of amusement park bumper car plus Roller Coaster car all rolled into one vehicle. Bet nobody'd pull out in front of YOU ! Invest in six or eight DEER WHISTLES and place them all over your car! City folk laugh at me - "Do you have enough deer whistles!?" I answer - "No. I plan on buying more. Just don't have any room left for them!" I have SIX deer whistles on my '93 Metro....! I sound like an approaching 107 mm HE Howitzer Round when I drive! I repeatedly toot the horn near roadside brush when I drive at night on the 55 mph road going to my house. Tells the Deer I'm coming....lets them get ready to jump out on the road as I just get there! I have seen vehicles that had hit deer. BAAAAD....! Once in a while mooses (plural is meese?) show up around here! Can't imagine hitting an adult ELK! Might as well hit an Elephant....... Then there was that night when I almost hit a UFO sitting in the middle of the road. No night running lights on it. Shot up into the sky and I nearly dropped my can of beer! Just kidding, folks - I never drop my beer! I've dropped a lit cigar in my lap - now that hurt the little Doctor.... DoctorBill
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#10
07-31-2007, 07:06 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
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Like I said, probably a stupid idea. I do know they have brush guards for GEO Trackers. Some of the guards are pretty solid and are designed for more than hitting brush. I always thought deer whistles were proven NOT to help at all. Maybe they do work Mark
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#11
07-31-2007, 07:48 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
I've nearly hit elk and deer, both in my Swift and on my motorcycle. An elk would total a metro/swift if hit at highway speeds while a deer would cause major damage. A large bug causes a dent in the sheet metal of a metro/swift. One night while riding my motorcycle I came around a high speed corner and saw something in the road. Managed to swerve just enough to miss it with my front wheel and graze it with my foot. It was a porcupine! Man that would have hurt! Another time while riding my motorcycle in eastern Oregon I had a pheasant come through my windshield and hit me in the chest. Scared me to death! No meese here in Central Oregon but lots of dear, elk, cows, pronghorn, porcupines, coyotes, rabbits, etc.. Deer are in my yard almost every day.
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#12
08-01-2007, 12:55 AM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
I'd just like to say that since I installed (and got it to work) my Cruise Control,
I feel safer driving at night because I don't have to constantly glance down at my speedometer! That is a big plus not to have to take one's eyes off the road. Sure as Hell, glance down and that is when a Deer will pop out! So now I can keep my eyes peeled for Deer constantly. The Cruise Control maintains speed exactly! No worries about that COP lurking somewhere with his RADAR. DoctorBill
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#13
11-14-2007, 09:27 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
well i can't really say hitting a deer but a moose i can asure you that they can go trough the winshield of a geo .
im talking about personal expirience 5 years ago april 27th driving at night with a friend and a cuz of mine cam out of nowhere i hit the moose landed in the ditch look besides me the whole top of the car was on my friend and my side not even a bump the guy lived tho so it is possible if my friend wasent there the moose would have been sitting besides me
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#14
11-14-2007, 11:11 PM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
I haven't come to close to hitting any deer with my metro yet, but I did come prettyclose to hitting a cow. I was coming back from a camping trip and turneda corner and there in the middle was a cow. So I started honking and flashing my lights while screaming at the thing to move. Finally after about two or three minutes it moved enough to get out of the way.
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#15
11-15-2007, 07:49 AM
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Re: Have any metros hit a deer?
I live in CO, - many, many deer in our area! People around here call them "big rats" becuase they eat everything in sight!
Anyway, I drive an early-morning paper route and probably see at least 50 deer by the time I'm done each day. Here's what I've discovered... I keep my brights on most of the time, and when I do see a deer up ahead, it doesn't matter if he's on the road or not, I start beeping the horn repeatedly as I'm slowing down. MOST of the time they head away from the road. Rarely, but it does happen, they turn across the road (stupid, like cats). The ones that stand their ground tend to be the larger bucks (just the ones you don't want to hit). Yesterday I came to within 4 feet of one, and almost to a complete stop before he decided that I was bigger than he was (not by much, grant you) and ran off the road. Try the horn Dr. Bill, it seems to help.
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