Hit Deer Need Advice

[dpAtlanta]

Thank God your damage did not look like this:

Yours appears to be a TAD more fixable...!!!!!

To make things worse, the deer in this photo did not have insurance, and the driver of the Dodge did not have "Uninsured Motorist" coverage.







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[SuperDave150]

20 years ago a body shop guy told me $1,500 a corner as a rule of thumb.
That was 20 years ago. Also, LED lights & other fancy things can be 2-3 times as much as the old school stuff. This is not your father’s Bronco.

 

[PetePerkins]

Looking At the photos……..I suggest popping the hood and loosen the bolts holding the fender, ( look for other bolt on points as well)then see if you can simply readjust the panel. Impact simply shifted the panels. The piece of bumper plastic that is cracked……replace or simply move on. Good luck.

Yeah looks like something that I would tackle myself. The grill, bumper and fenders are incredibly easy to remove. Start there and see what's underneath. That cracked plastic tow hook surround can be ordered at the dealer.

 

[Brian_B]

My wife has hit 3 critters in the past 5 years. Didn’t budge my insurance rates at all.

Until we added the 16 yr old. Now it costs more than the car payments

 

[Blackcat]

Clean off the hair and loosen some bolts to see if that helps as mentioned before. Unless you’re friends with a body shop, it’s going to be well above $500.

 

[dejones64]

Owned it a month, hit deer about 40mph, at night. This was $10,000. Still drivable. Repaired hood. Replaced whole fender, whole door, grill, headlight, louver parts, lower skirt under grill. Bumper, steering, etc was fine.

Today a year later. Bunch of lights and grill guard.

 

[M Redwood]

u got bucked.....

 

[mrbell63]

Cross posted to reddit r/FordBronco

Looking for some more visibility and thoughts


Truck is 3 weeks old. Go figure, going to vote, and he runs into me at 45 diagonal into the front fender/tire/modular bumper. Fender is misaligned, curious what people think will be the overall damage on this (I have $500 deductible). Pictures below. Passenger is not damaged but here for perspective vs drivers side. also pushed in the grill after the picture was taken from the top.

Do you guys think this alignment on the fender can be fixed, no paint damage or dents. Go through insurance (should be comprehensive) or it can be fixed for less than my deductible or close to it.

Deer lost.

me too Halloween mornings, ins estimate is $7200.00 but it counts as a comprehensive claim so a lower deductible.
Good luck!

 

[whreed]

What lights do you have in the bumper?

 

[helifino16]

My advice is to not hit deer...

@whreed - Your new Indian name is "Hunts with a Bronco". Use it well.

 

[MaximuNashville]

Just came to say that I had a deer hit me 2 years ago (was literally stopped by the time he made contact) and it didn’t affect my insurance here in TN at all. Probably a different term but it was explained as one of those ‘act of god’ things. Paid my deductible and had it auto-magically fixed for me. Never showed up on the carfax interestingly enough, lost a little faith in that process as a result but

 

[jtgensler]

You're gonna have a couple grand in it. The auto body ship is gonna just replace that whole fender most likely & then have to paint it & blend. Bumper stuff looks minimal.

I hit a deer in July & it was 6500 for a door skin, fender & mirror, plus paint & labor.

 

[SeptuagenerianSasquatch]

You got very lucky, other than the deer was lost. Not even any meat. alas.

There's a thread on the other site about deer alert whistles. The consensus there is that they work. Anybody have experience with those things? And how fast do you have to be going for the whistles to generate enough sound?

 

[Bdisco]

deer suck! Between the wife an myself we have taken out 3 of them. $25k worth of damage total. Uncountable near misses.
Best of luck!

 

[4Fords]

Cross posted to reddit r/FordBronco

Looking for some more visibility and thoughts


Truck is 3 weeks old. Go figure, going to vote, and he runs into me at 45 diagonal into the front fender/tire/modular bumper. Fender is misaligned, curious what people think will be the overall damage on this (I have $500 deductible). Pictures below. Passenger is not damaged but here for perspective vs drivers side. also pushed in the grill after the picture was taken from the top.

Do you guys think this alignment on the fender can be fixed, no paint damage or dents. Go through insurance (should be comprehensive) or it can be fixed for less than my deductible or close to it.

Deer lost.

My wife rear ended someone coming around a curve and there was a stopped vehicle. So slow there probably would have been no damage if not for aftermarket nudge bar bending back putting dent in the plastic bumper and cracking grill. Those 3 parts were $1200. After sensor work with all that stuff in bumper-12k! Good luck-get it done right.

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