Discovery 2017

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  • Blackbeltbob
    Member Since: 01 Dec 2017
    Location: Ayrshire
    Posts: 73
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Lux Corris Grey

    D5 V deer

    hit a deer last weekend at 70 ish mph.
    estimate is 4k so far.
    Sad Sad

    1st Oct 2018 12:23 pm
  • SHARKYSHARKS
    Member Since: 11 Oct 2017
    Location: Oldham
    Posts: 153
    United Kingdom 
    2018 Discovery Td6 HSE Lux Carpathian Grey

    Ouch I feel your pain Bob Shocked
    1st Oct 2018 12:27 pm
  • Blackbeltbob
    Member Since: 01 Dec 2017
    Location: Ayrshire
    Posts: 73
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Lux Corris Grey

    thanks.
    its been a faff with Land Rover and the insurance company - part of which I caused tbf - but at least I get a C3 for a fortnight Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter
    1st Oct 2018 12:52 pm
  • Blackfly
    Member Since: 15 Jun 2017
    Location: Up North
    Posts: 466
    Canada 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Indus Silver

    Could have been worse lucky it wasn’t a moose!



    F50, Fourtack, LR3 and now..............D5 HSE TDV6
    1st Oct 2018 1:00 pm
  • JonM
    Member Since: 30 Jun 2016
    Location: North Yorkshire
    Posts: 574
    United Kingdom 
    2022 Discovery SDV6 HSE Carpathian Grey

    At least you got some free venison. Thumbs Up
    MY2022 D5 HSE D300 - with extra nice bits added
    MY2019 D5 HSE 3.0 SDV6 - sold to a dealer for a crazy price!
    1st Oct 2018 1:07 pm
  • Blackbeltbob
    Member Since: 01 Dec 2017
    Location: Ayrshire
    Posts: 73
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Lux Corris Grey

    it was in convenient sized chunks after I had driven over it
    1st Oct 2018 1:27 pm
  • Dangerdave
    Member Since: 15 Feb 2017
    Location: UK
    Posts: 600
    United Kingdom 

    Presume it was a Roe Deer?

    I do a bit of stalking and the last Red Deer Stag I shot weighed in at nearly 17 stone. I wouldn’t want to hit that at speed.
    1st Oct 2018 1:47 pm
  • DSL
    Member Since: 23 Jun 2016
    Location: No longer in the D4 :-(
    Posts: 134
    United Kingdom 

    Oh deer!

    Well someone was going to say that. Whistle

    As DD sez, looks like a tiddler. I often see red deer at the side of the road on the A9 at 5am. They are scary big beasties and would easily come over the bonnet and in through the windscreen to say hello.
    1st Oct 2018 5:06 pm
  • Dangerdave
    Member Since: 15 Feb 2017
    Location: UK
    Posts: 600
    United Kingdom 

    Your right Del. I knew a girl who lived in Glencoe, she was driving home very early one morning and hit a red deer stag. The head came through the windscreen and the antlers impailed into the front passenger seat back. Luckily no one was sitting there.

    Also her husband had one of these fancy carbon racing bicycles. He hit another one at full pelt and it snapped the bike in half. He was okay surprisingly.

    Worse place for Deer on the road that I’ve ever seen was actually the Fort William to Mallaig Road on a winters night - hundreds of them.
    1st Oct 2018 5:26 pm
  • DSL
    Member Since: 23 Jun 2016
    Location: No longer in the D4 :-(
    Posts: 134
    United Kingdom 

    I see them on that duelled bit of the A9 after Drumochter, very scary when visibility isn’t that good at stupid o’clock. A rep I had work for me had hit a horse when he and his wife & kids were in the car, it came over the bonnet and through the window, and was still alive and kicking, literally. They were lucky to survive that.
    1st Oct 2018 6:45 pm
  • Dangerdave
    Member Since: 15 Feb 2017
    Location: UK
    Posts: 600
    United Kingdom 

    The A9 at Drumochter was always bad. In the mid 80’s I saw literally hundreds of them another 200’ higher than the roadway, for mile after mile one winter. Never seen them like that again.
    1st Oct 2018 6:59 pm
  • Blackbeltbob
    Member Since: 01 Dec 2017
    Location: Ayrshire
    Posts: 73
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Lux Corris Grey

    Quick update - there is no update Sad

    Still not got the car back - apparently they are waiting on a piece of the wiring loom.
    So still in the C3 manual piece of poop.
    22nd Oct 2018 12:49 pm
  • Blackbeltbob
    Member Since: 01 Dec 2017
    Location: Ayrshire
    Posts: 73
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Lux Corris Grey

    Another update.

    Still no car Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad

    Apparently 8 - 12 weeks is an acceptable lead time for this type of part - my arse it is - however I can go no further in my complaining it seems. I just need to accept my fate.

    C3 has gone and made way for a wonderful Orange Honda Jazz Auto Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter

    I miss my car.
    12th Nov 2018 1:30 pm
  • Dangerdave
    Member Since: 15 Feb 2017
    Location: UK
    Posts: 600
    United Kingdom 

    Not good, but what can you do?
    12th Nov 2018 1:55 pm
  • DSL
    Member Since: 23 Jun 2016
    Location: No longer in the D4 :-(
    Posts: 134
    United Kingdom 

    Blackbeltbob wrote:
    C3 has gone and made way for a wonderful Orange Honda Jazz Auto Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter


    Hope you look after the Jazz better than you did the D5. Whistle Whistle

    Thumbs Up
    12th Nov 2018 2:20 pm
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