RS - 1 Kangaroo - 0

[DVS92]

Just coming along Mt Cotton Rd tonight (near the mt cotton driver training centre for the locals) and a kangaroo was sitting in the middle of the road. Locked all 4 and swerving to miss it hit the front drivers side of the bumper which nearly sent me off into a ditch at about 60-70kph just caught it in time but geez it gets the heart pumping!!

Anyway, the car is alright thank god apart from the drivers side spotlight pushed in a bit which is surprising considering where the roo actually landed, but I guess they make them tougher than I thought.

Glenn

[RSKY]

you're very lucky. they're usually very heavy and can do some real serious damage!

[goq11k]

lucky save mate, go the RS

[DVS92]

Yeah I know, I was fearing some pretty bad damage but the steering is still all good and nothing was rubbing so at the time I was thinking it might not be too bad, which was the case in the end

[DiscostU]

glad you walked away mate, i have seen some cars after they have hit roos and there isant much left.

my mates mum had a mini and hit a big roo you couldnt tell the front from the back.

[Rstim]

I hit one last week and wasnt so lucky as it smashed my fog light glass and put two cracks in my front bar still had a piece of the roos fur in one of the cracks when i checked it in the morning. I hit it at about 90 the little bugger came from nowhere, but at least it was only a bit of cosmetic damage.

[vincentvega]

scott (sksuba) hit one on the same road a few months back. car is still in pieces. insurance company wrote it off

he collected it in the middle of the bumper, pushed fans back into the timing belts and knocked the timing out of wack.. all bad news

your very lucky to have gotten away with so little damage!

[SC00BS]

That's exactly what happend to me vv. Fortunately I was able to drive for another 600km's. Did a lot of cosmetic damage though. I'd say it's more like Kangaroo - 1, RS - 1

[DVS92]

That's exactly what happend to me vv. Fortunately I was able to drive for another 600km's. Did a lot of cosmetic damage though. I'd say it's more like Kangaroo - 1, RS - 1

Yes i think in your case that is a definate!!! i was glad that I only got it on the corner of the bumper and not flush in the middle or else it would have been a much nastier outcome

[evil_rex]

my mum him 1 in the b4 going 100kph and it left a 2inch crack in the bumper them we ran ova it snapping its legs.

[RSTurbo]

I hit one last week and wasnt so lucky as it smashed my fog light glass and put two cracks in my front bar still had a piece of the roos fur in one of the cracks when i checked it in the morning. I hit it at about 90 the little bugger came from nowhere, but at least it was only a bit of cosmetic damage.

yeah Tim i hit one just out of Launceston about this time last year doing 115km/h, and it didnt hardly do a thing! Just popped the guard liner out of alignment..and thats it. I think the reason we got off lightly is coz the skippys in Tas are exactly that...light! generally they are wallabies, not roos, and pale into insignificance compared to 'real' kangaroos.

[Rstim]

i know what you mean about the size here in tas they are smaller but can still be nasty but nowhere near like a big red roos on the mainland stand up as tall as your car and weigh 50+kg, like hitting a person.

[RSTurbo]

yeah exactly...but they can be well over 50kg...more like 100+ and 6foot tall.
very very messy

[Raz]

hit a grey forester (kangaroo) in my old car years ago on the murchason highway and it bent the rad panel and popped the bonnet aswell and stuffing the bumper. Lucky not to damage the cooler or the radiator. So there are some big suckers in Tas.

[mylegacyrs]

The wallabies arent too bad I went over one on my way to my parents in East Gippsland

[AlpineRaven]

About 2 years ago, I wrote off my old Holden JE Camira 1988 model wagon with very bad front end damage and hit the rear side of the wagon onto a tree so had front & rear left damages, walked away fine but shaky (the roo was left behind but in limb & pain - couldn't find it when I came back 5 hours later) , I managed to drive the car upto the highway (I was on country road when I hit it) just before I boilled up the engine, so it was complete write off - got $80 for scrap metal for it (I replaced to another JE Camira from the written off one because I got good interior which the new one didn't) until this year I wrote it off after T Bone on a Ford EB Fairmont then got my Liberty.

So Roo - 1, me 0 (a few misses!) - That is why I havent been up in the bush much these days now
Cheers
AP