A new Avalanche

Shaners · January 20, 2002

My friend picked up his new 2500 8.1L Avalanche last night. The dealer is about 15-20 miles from his house and he was enjoying his new truck on the ride home and about 3 miles from home... A DEER.

He zigged and the deer zagged and somehow they came together in the middle of the road. He said he clobbered the deer hard and there was nothing he could do. He was so mad that he never stopped and finished the trip home.

He pulled the new Av in the garage and never looked at the damage. After about 15 minutes he regained his composure enough to go down and look at his new pride and joy to see what he did to her on her maiden voyage.

To his amazement he said there is no damage!!! Deer hair everywhere but no damage!!! There was deer hair in between the bumper and even in the wheel well and stuck in the rim!!

I guess the cladding is good for something... I did tell him to take in to get it checked out though.

That would really suck!!!

I just thoght I'd share this story...

pacodiablo · January 20, 2002

deer piss me off, they are so stupid when they dart out right in front of u!!

Kansas Kid · January 20, 2002

Did he hit it with the front end or the back end of the truck? Either way it kind of sounds like he more or less ran the deer over, based on the hair in the wheel well, rim, and bumper. I've been in a truck when we hit a deer like that, thought he knocked the crud out of it, but all that really happened was we clipped its legs with the tire and ran it over. Makes it seem like one heck of a collison, but nothing really happens. The cladding may be good stuff, but if that deer had hit any of the body panels it would have crumpled the surrounding sheet metal like paper.

Irregardless, I think he should consider himself lucky.

Shaners · January 20, 2002

KK,

He said he hit it with the front... (more than likely ran over it too).

The cladding could hide some damage so I told him to have it checked out since there is so much hair on his new truck, and the insurance will take care of the damage if it is hidden. It's better off to find it now then to find it in three years...

He did go back a few hours later but couldn't find the deer, so it either hobbled off into the woods, or someone else took it.

Kansas Kid · January 20, 2002

Yeah, he definetly needs to go get it checked out. As thin as the sheetmetal is on these new trucks, I'd be really worried about damage under the cladding. You can dent these new trucks up just by leaning on them wrong, let alone hitting a deer though. And like you said, better to find it out now then somewhere down the road.

antig24 · January 20, 2002

i'm glad there's no noticable damage

Greg · January 21, 2002

more deer hunting = fewer deer collisions

It's a whole lot more effective to control the deer population with bows and firearms rather than cars and trucks.

LarryE · January 21, 2002

actually not hunting deer would make the population go down.. its the whole evolution concept..

but what fun would that be

I say you havent' reached for man hood till you have deer meat in the freezer and a trophy head on the wall

NewbieZ71 · January 21, 2002

actually not hunting deer would make the population go down.. its the whole evolution concept..

but what fun would that be

I say you havent' reached for man hood till you have deer meat in the freezer and a trophy head on the wall

Yes it would but wouldnt that be sort of cruel and inhumane? Starve to death? Disease? etc......

B$ · January 21, 2002

Well, I think it was more then luck, I had a F250 slide into me and tear his mirror off and put one of those fun concave dents in the corner of his bumper, while I just had to snap on a new $25 plastic panel.