Thanksgiving eve in 2018 in rural south carolina, i found a hole in the heard , but the hole was not wide enough to clear. it took 4.5 months to get my car back from the dealership in pinehurst, nc. it was awaiting part for a steering wheel trim ring. when i finally got it home, USAA sent me to two other collision centers 4 more times until it was fixed properly with all panels lineing up perfectly. fast forward .....i received and internet quote of $42-47,500--black book sight unseen a couple months back. last week, another internet reached out to me with a $41k offer and if i would consider, they would appraise it. so they video appraised and told me how great every thing looked. 10 minutes later, they called me back with an offer of $31,000. i thanked them. $9.000 .00 loss. I have a deposit with Criswell for a new C8 (next june). so sell this for cheap, trade it in for cheap....i hate to be taken! My last resort was my son. he is a pick up truck guy, like i used to be. but he said they would gladly take it if i gave it to him, so that is what i will do i guess. i would feel better about it if he was overjoyed and not his wife. he said he would rather have a new truck. if she will trade in her Lexus for a new truck, i will pay that too. the deer strike was at 25k miles. and at at 50k miles now, it has always been great fun. we broke it in 9 days camping in west va--3500 miles in one week! it is my daily driver and it's also our choice for camping in the mountains. my ford van is equipped for long trips, but we would rather take the vette and sleep in a tiny tent than take our camper van i have very mixed emotions of giving that car to my son. if he don't take care of it or trades it off, before i die, i will be upset!

 

I feel your pain. I had my '19 Stingray for five days. Late at nite I encountered 10/12 Deer crossing the country road in front of me. I stopped the car, hit my brites. And, let them pass in front of me. Just as I was about to get going, Bambi comes out of the woods and walks into the driver's side rear view mirror. He immediately turns and bounds away leaving the mirror twisted, almost upside down. I proceed further down the road looking for a street light to survey the damage. To my surprise the only damage was a very badly twisted mirror. I twisted the mirror back into place, no other damage at all. The mirror works fine. I don t believe in miracles. But, that was a miracle.

 

Plenty of deer in this area - you certainly have to be on the lookout for them as you drive down country roads.

 

I don't see how you are being taken. That car must have a heavy carfax hit on it. Put yourself on the opposite side of it, would you buy your car unless it was heavily discounted?

 

I hit a deer at 75 mph with my 2015 resulting in $12K of damage. The car was never the same. I bit the bullet and traded it for a 17 at a significant loss. I consider myself to be lucky to have made it out unharmed.

 

This is exactly why I try to avoid driving a vette at night. Here in NW Iowa you never know when they'll pop up. It's bad enough during the day. Good luck with your decision.

 

I have hit deer in both my C5 Z06 and my C7 Z06. A frustrating experience. It happens very quick as they leap out of the woods and commit suicide by Z06.

 

I ran over an entire deer corpse. Like driving over a rolled up carpet at 35mph. No damage but the metal plate under the car "shaved" off some flesh and it landed on my exhaust system.....car smelled horrible for a week.....

 

Even better true deer story; driving my '92 Miata on a hilly country road here in western WA state at a blazing 25 mph with the top down on a wondrous May day, see a deer cantering across the road a few hundred feet ahead, then a doe leaped out in front of me, attempted to leap the car, caught its two front legs on rhe nose and tumbled, yup, into my passenger seat. She was screaming/bleeding with two broken front legs in the seat. I was able to pull off and lift her out of the car. Sat with her on the side of the road until the local police showed up and he was happy to take her. I left then with only a dented car nose, a couple of bruises on my arm/shoulder but was pretty shaken......

 

Similar to my deer encounter with my C5 Z06. The deer leaped out the woods and I hit it at speed. The nose scooped up the deer and it went through the windshield, becoming my passenger (lucky it did not end up in my lap). The woman in the car behind me stopped. It is good she did as she was deliriously upset and incoherent. An experience, certainly.

There was also the near deer experience when a pickup ahead of me on the freeway in the left lane hit a deer, spewing bits all over my Trans Am WS6. No damage but it took a great deal of work to get the car even basically clean.

My favorite deer is the one which succeeded in jumping over my MR2, leaving only a minute dent in the roof rail.

Live in the woods, encounter deer. A lot.

 

In Maryland you have to watch out for roaming TVs.


I picked up my 1990 Charcoal Metallic Corvette from the dealer and headed home. I was stopped at an intersection with cars in front and behind. A Chevy Love truck came around the corner in front of me and a large projection TV rolled out of it's bed and slid down the road . . . . . . right into my front end. While I was thinking how I was going to kill the driver, the passenger ran up and said he was a Chevy dealership owner and he would fix my car like new. That saved his life. True to his word I could not tell that the car was right off the dealer's floor.

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