$#*@& animals!!

[Clay'87IS]

Coming back from San Jose with Melissa...we're on a road thats 55mph but its raining and dark and I'm talking so I'm doin 47-50, and some animal (med. size dog, big raccoon, something!) jumped out RIGHT in front of me...so close that Mel didnt even see it and I cought a glimpse and didnt even have time to hit the brakes, it was just a good sized blur. So we turned around on the next road and came back to look for it...didnt find it so I drove to the nearest gas station to check and see if it hurt anything (I didnt think it did)....I get out and my front vailance has a HUGE hole in it...the driver side fog is fucked (it was already messed up but damn it hangs now) and all the stuff that was minor cracked was ripped off. So we leave there -I'm pissed as hell- and we turn onto my road and I go to shift from 2nd to 3rd and the tranny locks and I'm stuck in 2nd. The Gear shifter is in the neutral position, but it wont move around like its in neutral, you can definately tell its locked in. So I pull into a neighborhood thats right there and by now I'm beyond furious and I call my dad...he comes and looks around (he has even less of an Idea of what hes doing than I do and I dont know shit). I can leave the clutch in and its fine...but when I let out it stalls (locked into gear) and when I start to go now it's in first gear....but theres no way it was in first when it locked up the first time cause I was doing 35-40 and it wasnt revving like crazy. So I drive it the rest of the way home (a mile and a half or so) in first gear doin 15 or so....and now its parked becide the driveway.

And I'm depressed. I'll try to get some pics of the front vailance tomorrow.

[rayz]

sorry to hear. im confused as to how the tranny locked up from hitting an animal. I just lost a front spoiler to an animal jumping infront of me too, on sunday. hope things get werk out.

[Clay'87IS]

Me too, I have no idea what happened to it. It was a goodsized animal...maybe it knocked something out of line down there?

[randomtask37]

be happy u didnt swerve for it. dont be concerned about broken parts... they can be fixed faster than broken legs.

[Clay'87IS]

True. I didnt even have enough time to hit the brakes, just enough for 'Oh F***' to run through my head.

[AdamF 88iS]

10,000points!

I feel for you man, the night after I got my M3 I nailed a racoon and cracked my bumper and oil cooler.

Damn creatures.

[e30Matt]

Welcome to my world. Only I hit a deer.

[bimmerphile]

Damn, I was hoping this was a bestiality thread. shit.

[808BMW]

Damn, I was hoping this was a bestiality thread. shit.

:tsk:

[rs4pro3]

You could of knocked a tranny mount loose, My 88 325is had a crooked tranny mount when I got it and had some driveline vibrations and would not shift easily.

[natorious]

the biggest animal i have ever hit is a squirrel so far and the euro lip spoiler combined with being dopped like 3" in the front on my corrado just booted the thing about 6 feet in the air it was too low to go underneath.... didnt even kill it... it ran away...

[David325is]

Oh dang Clay!! I need to come by your house and see the damage. Your front valence has taken a beating in the last month. Sucks about the tranny too. I would like to look at it before you take it somewhere.

[Clay'87IS]

Feel free to go take a look, its sitting outside in the rain :( . This sucks, goodbye summer mod plans-hello repair bills.

On a lighter note, what front end should I get to replace it? The same OEM one, or a different one?

[E30godz]

I remembering telling Stu when i first saw his iS lip and splitter combined with GC's (really low up front) that he should start painting on a "kill count" on the splitter, similiar to WWII planes..but for animals ; )

maybe yall should look into that.

[Clay'87IS]

I figured I'd be okay though...I've hit squrrells before and, though they're small, I figured I was pretty invincible at stock 4x4 ride height.