So, some of you will remember this thread... http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....light=Deer+Hit

For those of you that don't, here's the cliffs:

I hit a deer at 72 MPH.... Carnage ensued...
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Anyway - Insurance totaled the car, but because it is older than 10 years old- the insurance company does not report the vehicle as salvage or rebuilder, so I kept the car and it has a Clear title and will be able to be reinsured

I was paid $1700 after my deductible ($500) -- paid $1000 to have it fixed/painted (did the teardown of the front clip myself) and bought a clip off of a car for $250 that I ended up not using... (maybe will make some from scrapping the metal - and got a rear end disk conversion and a few more SE parts too)

So - here are the pics of the process and what she looks like now (made a few minor changes) - not too bad I don't think...Nice to be back in the car!

 

Here are a whole bunch more pictures of the deer hit and the car tore down...

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l1...ns/Deer%20Hit/

 

WOW!!
Your paint makes me Jealous thats one nice paint job who painted it?

 

wow man. brought back from the dead!

 

Clean! Did the deer's insurance pay for it or did you get stuck with the bill?

 

wow, i'm glad everything worked out for you in the end. too bad it took eight and a half months, though...

 

A local shop did it - unfortunately they only shot the hood, right fender, bumper and grill... I was going to paint the entire car, but decided against it in light of purchasing a F250 that I now drive and are going to sell the max and buy the wifey a new car in under a year....



Yah, the cost of repair from the insurance company was near $3K - I only paid $1250 including some extra SE parts... They just did it as a favor to me as I knew the shop owner from being an insurance adjuster. I got all the parts at body shop cost (cheaper than cleaning up the used parts I bought b4 talking to the shop ) and they did it when they could squeeze it in....

Unfortunately we had a major hail storm in the spring (car was inside the shop) and they just now are getting caught up!!! I didn't get the car tore down until January

 

Wow you took that deers head clean off

 

Ooooo Shiny. Good to see some ppl still love their 3rd gens

 

I was originally going to just get it fixed and sell it - but after having it for a week or so, I bet we keep it just as an extra car and one I can tinker with They are nice cars and were ahead of their time I think... Next is changing the rear lights to SE lights and new tint to shade the interior from the sun!!! (and black it out even more )

 

nice..................

 

my black leather would have gone perfect with the new black paint but its long gone.... :/

That wasn't a very bad hit at all. Buffed right out didn't it?

~Alex

 

Yeah, the leather would have been perfect... but oh well - would have been a pain to try to change the entire interior

I wouldn't say it buffed right now lol nah -- it looked worse with all the exterior pieces on.. they took the brunt of the hit.. only support piece that was damaged was the radiator support/headlamp mounting area..

used the original bumper reinforcement and the right side apron assy didn't budge...