I think I can buff it out...

[Randy_270]

My wife smoked a deer 3 miles from home this morning. She is ok, a little sore. It's a good thing I wasn't working today and was able to go bring her our car so she could get to work.

 

[byathread]

Yeah, you can buff that right out... [emoji23] anything structural or just cosmetic/parts?

 

[Expedition Dave]

Dang, glad she is ok!! Obviously the airbags did not deploy, right?

Out of morbid curiosity what happened to the deer?

 

[Randy_270]

The actual crash bar is untouched. Purely cosmetic and some mechanical. It pushed in the rad and broke the one elbow and dumped all the coolant.

 

[Randy_270]

No air bags deployed. The deer was still alive, its front and back legs on the side she hit were destroyed. I had to end the deer's suffering.

 

[5280tunage]

Glad everyone is okay (minus the deer of course). My mother in law did this twice in her f150, once jack knifing her boat... No fun.

 

[Expedition Dave]

No air bags deployed. The deer was still alive, its front and back legs on the side she hit were destroyed. I had to end the deer's suffering.

Good on you. I hate to see an animal suffering...

 

[MxRacer965]

I hit one of those sh*ts in August. Ended up being $14K in damages. A good chunk of that for me though was the active shutters and the grill. Those two parts alone were > $5K of the cost. Mine is a platinum so you may find it ends up being in the $10K range if you don’t have the same.

 

[2018ExpyPlatinum]

Man that sucks. Sorry to hear that, but most important your wife is ok.

Good luck with the repairs and keep us up to date.

 

[Randy_270]

I’m really glad my wife was driving the Expedition and not her car, otherwise she would have written off the car and possibly be seriously injured. She still has whiplash but that’s much better than being hospitalized from having the deer land inside the car. The deer was a large buck, probably one of the biggest ones we’ve seen.

Yeah my wife and I both don’t like to see animals suffering either. It just seems cruel to leave it.

As for the Expedition, it’s a limited so no active grill shutters, but everything on the front end will have to be replaced other than the hood, drivers side fog light and the drivers side fender. Even the driver side headlight is broken. And for the mechanical damage, the rad, some of the hoses and elbows, the intercooler, possibly the cooling fans, and the air intake tube are what I can see damaged.