At least I made out better than the deer! Probably did over $4K damage. She hit the front passenger side corner. Need new bumper, grille, hood, headlight lens, possibly whole assembly, right front fender, and that was pushed back and damaged the edge of the front passenger door.

I am so depressed. Now I have to find a good body shop. I just worry to much about this car. I took a back road to avoid route 78, and the flying stones from all the truck traffic and I end up hitting a deer.

 

FYI the headlight is about $650 alone

 

Sorry to this man. That really really sucks. I'm assuming you'll only have to play the deductible though (provided you have insurance ).

 

A REAL pain. I did this with my '00 SE back on Dec 16, 2003. I saw several deer in the road at night and stopped so they could make their way to the woods on either side of the road. Then traffic came rolling up from the other direction. I blinked my high beams very quickly to alert oncoming traffic, then quickly turned my headlights off so they would not blind oncoming traffic, preventing them from seeing the deer.

But the driver in the lead car never slowed and hit a big deer full force, knocking it into the air. It came down on the hood of my stopped Maxima. While we were waiting for the police, I asked her if she saw me flash a warning with my lights. She said she was on her cell phone, and didn't notice my signal or see the deer.

I took my baby to the body shop the next day (Dec 17), and my car was fixed and ready on Jan 16, 2004. We both had State Farm, so State Farm paid the full $3,400 for my Maxima, including deductable.

I still remember the time I hit a deer full force in my wife's truck at 2AM on a deserted stretch of interstate. I was on cruise control at 74 MPH, and the deer leaped out from behind a bridge abutment just as we were going under the bridge. That was in 1993, before many trucks had ABS, and I left almost two hundred feet of rubber on the road. One front tire and wheel was pushed right through where the axle originally was. The truck had lost radiator, etc, so was immobile, and we were totally in the dark. We tried to walk up to the road that crossed the interstate on that bridge, but got stuck in a swamp, where I lost my best Timberland mocs. And things only got worse after that. But this is a Maxima board, so . . .

 

My wife backed into my max in the driveway when it was 2 weeks old. Had the bumper, headlight cover, and quarter panel replaced. Cost the insurance company about $5k.

 

Deer in the Nothern Virginia area are a problem too. I have had a deer hit me instead of me hitting a deer. Years back I was driving down in ashburn one night and the stupid thing ran into the side of the car up near the quarter panel.

 

Deer are not smart - they often run into cars. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do about it.

As I was leaving Yosemite Nat'l Park a few years ago it became dark. As I approached a turn out overlooking a valley in my bright yellow rented Mustang convertable, I saw two bucks sparring on their hind legs. I stopped about 25 yards away so I wouldn't scare them and have them hit the car.

Well, one got run off by the other - and it ran straight into the rear quarter panel of the car. Scared the hell out of my wife. It put a little ding in the car from the antlers, and left a bunch of fur. Fortunately Hertz didn't see the ding on their brand-new car - it had 100 miles when I picked it up.

 

Well thank God that you are alive and I'm glad you weren't hurt but

 

That suck man...

in for pics as well...

 

Sorry to hear...let's see some pics though

 

I wouldn't worry about flying pebbles. the sharper your slope on the glass the better it's able to defect. hence, your odds are better than any SUVs. :-)

look on the bright side, at least you'll be eating free meat for the next 6 months.

 

Lol still waiting for pics.....and the deers side of the story ; ) haha

 

Pics yet? Curious to see how the Maxima would hold up with that kind of weight. Though we don't see too many deers here in AZ!

 

Plenty in the mountains.

 

Even if you got the deer's side of the story, we will all be biased against it. You know we're all on the Max's side....

 

have the body shop put the stillen front lip on, might as well get something out of it

 

ouch. In for pics. Sorry to hear though

 

second this and that sounds way bad just surprised this hasnt happened to me yet i live in the woods with the deer for crying out loud! but i never see them when im driving my max (knocks on wood) but hope things work out for you

 

I had a deer actually hit me once. Ran out of the woods and plowed into the side of my passenger side door on my 540i. That was a site.

 

my wife hit a ****ing rabbit and we had to replace the bumper cover. LAME

 

At least you are ok. I hate driving out in the middle of nowhere at night. I'm always afraid this will happen to me.

 

Damn that really sucks man. I hope everything goes well and comes out like new!

 

any pics

 

damnn that sucks big time..i hope it doesnt cost too much

 

These deer 'incidents' are expensive. I did over $4K damage when I hit one with our truck, and over $3K when a car coming the other way knocked a deer into the air and it came down on the hood of my stopped Maxima.

 

pics?