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Nasho run, decided to take the lead on the way back up to Sydney on the return leg. A few turns in and BAM! out of nowhere this bunch of errant Deer jump out in front of me, one bouncing off the bonnet and making quite a dent on my ego/skyline. Had dropped back to about 80clicks but it still put a hurt on..

Not sure if its going to cost more to just fix myself or pay the excess and claim it on insurance..radiator was hissing and popping all the way home so obviously that needs to be replaced, new bonnet of course.

anything else i could have missed? do i go to a panel beaters or mechanics?

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not sure if should post the poor bugger i hit. was just sitting there dazed after it pulled itself off the road, did ring the Po Po to come take care of it..

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Ouch!, take it to the panel beaters and they fix it up. Looking at your photo and you saying that the radiator was hissing I would dare say you would have damage to your radiator support., bit hard to tell without seeing it in person but looks like your grille will need to be replaced, couple of your retaining tags on your headlights may be broken also so get the guy doing the quote to have a good look at them. Front bar have any damage from the accident?

Weirdly the front bar seems undamaged but with the excess being only 800 and all that other stuff needing to be done i might be better off going the insurance route.

thanks Terry, im starting late on monday so will hit a few local panelbeaters up. .also someone on Facebook has a bonnet for me, it is black though so will check Skyline spares as well for matching colours.

no idea how much it would be to fit a new radiator, should i go for one of the more expensive 'race' spec ones for all the upcoming track work?

found this on ebay...tempting for 800 clams..

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yeah weirdly it didnt go above halfway on the temp gauge and the aircon was working fine, plenty of coolant in the ...er, coolant tank thingy though it was definitely leaking the green stuff all the way home..otherwise though the engine sounded and acted fine.

weird chemical smell notwithstanding.

oh and this bonnet is in brissie in SAU's own classifieds thread..$500 yay looks like i found my new bonnet, dont know why he says race only.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/373096-r33-series-2-carbon-over-fibreglass-bonnet/

Holy crap! That was one hell of a shot not to hit anything but the bonnet. It's good that it didn't go into the windscreen and you got out of it uninjured.

From what it looks like it'll be bonnet, radiator support and radiator plus the a new pair of pants to replace the ones that got sharted.

yeah will grab a shot of the engine bay on my way to work, obviously im walking for the foreseeable. Looks pretty fine though other than bent support and radiator. LOL at new pants, it happened too quick for me to even get scared..

Royal national Park, entrance is just off the Princess highway/acacia drive.

Kirrawee to Stanwell tops.

hit the dear on the way back just a few kms from stanwell Park.

oh and heres some 'action footage'

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had a deer jump out at me while cornering hard on the throttle (knew the road like back of my hand) on my built Fireblade back in the day, close call.

also once had a brown snake attempt a strike as I raced past him....

yeah weirdly it didnt go above halfway on the temp gauge and the aircon was working fine, plenty of coolant in the ...er, coolant tank thingy though it was definitely leaking the green stuff all the way home..otherwise though the engine sounded and acted fine.

weird chemical smell notwithstanding.

oh and this bonnet is in brissie in SAU's own classifieds thread..$500 yay looks like i found my new bonnet, dont know why he says race only.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/373096-r33-series-2-carbon-over-fibreglass-bonnet/

Non ADR aprroved bonnet means it doesn't have any steel framework within it.

There are some approved ones on the market, but I think cops might still defect it, even if it's engineered.

yeah according to the seller a Blitz sticker might save me from a defect notices as they are the only ADR approved CF bonnets for this model, might try it out for a while at least until i get hassled/cop a canary.

R33 needs all the help it can get as its a heavy beast..

Tangles, CSB man, CSB :)

the f**king snake, for real? i would have paid to see that..

I almost hit a deer aswell last week when i went down for a late night run, luckly i spotted it out quick and had a good 2 meters from the deer after heavy braking. The damage looks harsh mate hope you can sort it all out soon.

Last year my cousin hit a joey he was lucky enough to get away with just a craked front bar.

I wonder how a carbon bonnet would look in comparison to yours after the same impact.

I've been considering one for a while now but don't like to raw look of them on a black car.

And most I've seen painted black have ripples in them from the sun.

$500 for that one is awesome, and would look hot painted silver too.

Check your premium won't go up if you decide to go through insurance.

Even though it was a deer and not your fault insurance companies may assume you were speeding.

You know how they choose to analyse to their advantage.

$800 excess isn't worth it anyway for just a bonnet and radiator.

And if you change insurance companies within the next 3 years you'll have to declare the claim.

Furthermore if you have a non ADR bonnet and have another accident, they may decline the claim based on road worthiness.

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