Do you think this will polish out?

[jakerade]

Oooops

Deer jumped out of the hedge over the bonnet and clipped the offside front wing and headlight

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[kipperano]

Think you will need a bit more than autoglym there,,not good..

[ScottyUK]

Ouch .... but not the worst I've seen. You may get away with a relatively cheap fix.

Wildlife is a real fear for me. I do a fair bit of country roads at night .... on a motorbike. Single headlight means less vision and of course no crumple zone etc.

It's such a common thing to happen and I seem to read about it more and more. Closest I've had was seeing a Stag standing on the grass verge. I saw him with about a second to go until I was passed.

They should teach animals the Green Cross code and also make them wear hi-viz!

[jakerade]

Umm - maybe i can claim off English Nature! It does kinda **** you up when you see one just standing there when you drive past. I was actually thinking about 20 secs before I hit it that I better watch out for deer.

Looking on the brightside, my car is Monza Silver.

However I am not sure Audi UK will be too pleased as its one of their special "warranty fleet"

[robtt09]

Locally to me a cyclist was killed after being hit by a deer. I see them crossing in front of me more often than I like and if they hit your windscreen ....

[jakerade]

Well i reckon if we had arrived half a second earlier he would have been over the bonnet. Twas a big'un

[jakerade]

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[pitch3110]

I'm in Suffolk and you are more than welcome to borrow my Meg GA220 dual action polisher to see if it will polish out.
It's a great bit of kit and I think with scratchx you might be surprised by the results. ;-).

Pitch

[Hammy969]

Hi Jakerade

Nasty and I bet you got a hella scare.
I had the unfortunate opportunity to have similar experience with my last A3. However I hit Bambie square in the middle of the bonnet at about 50-60mph and made her fly thorough the air for a few yards. She didn't move far after that! Neither did I, everything infront of the wings had to be replaced and the bonnet and the radiator and quite a lot of other stuff which you can not see.

There is nothing you can do either and that is the frustrating bit.

Ham

[jakerade]

Thanks guys. You are definitely left with a feeling of "what could i have done to avoid it"

Pitch - luckily they are giving me another car to have a crack at today. However if you really want to put your GA220 to good use i have a Porsche in the garage that could use your attention :) On a serious note, how difficult are those things to use as i was thinking of buying one but was never sure what compounds and all that lark to use?

[pitch3110]

They are pretty easy to use with practice.
You are more than welcome to have a whirl with mine to see what you think. I have a number of compounds also to try.

The results with some work can be stunning.

Pitch