Oh wow, sorry to hear!! Poor Escape (and cow)!! Hopefully your Escape's boo-boos will be fixed really fast and all will be well! Glad you weren't hurt!!! Cheers to great weekend! :beer:
Bad week, but Happy Ending (Hopefully)
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I've had a bad week. A few days ago I hit a stray black cow that was in the road on my way to work before daylight. (There were several cows in the road, thank goodness I only hit one of them.)
The Escape is pretty beaten up but I think it's going to make it. The owner of the cow settled and I got money to have it repaired right away. I have a super body shop I go to, and I know the owners and they do great work.
I believe the brush guard helped, I drove away, and am driving it now with a taped up headlight and a patched turn signal. No obvious engine or drivetrain damage, not a wobble or a drift to be felt, still runs smooth down the road. The guards supports bent, I had a little concern that they might go into the radiator, but they appear to be built to give way and bend upwards instead of pulling out of their bolts.
Most of the damage was to the body panels, darn cow also sideswiped me and got my rear door a tiny bit and a big dent in my rear quarter panel. Liked to have pulled my tail light guard off, thankfully those bend easy and it just bent back and didn't damage it.
I'm very happy it can be fixed, for a while there was talk of it being totaled and I was pretty upset with that idea. I'd like a new vehicle sure, but my Escape being lost wasn't part of my plan.
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The Escape is pretty beaten up but I think it's going to make it. The owner of the cow settled and I got money to have it repaired right away. I have a super body shop I go to, and I know the owners and they do great work.
I believe the brush guard helped, I drove away, and am driving it now with a taped up headlight and a patched turn signal. No obvious engine or drivetrain damage, not a wobble or a drift to be felt, still runs smooth down the road. The guards supports bent, I had a little concern that they might go into the radiator, but they appear to be built to give way and bend upwards instead of pulling out of their bolts.
Most of the damage was to the body panels, darn cow also sideswiped me and got my rear door a tiny bit and a big dent in my rear quarter panel. Liked to have pulled my tail light guard off, thankfully those bend easy and it just bent back and didn't damage it.
I'm very happy it can be fixed, for a while there was talk of it being totaled and I was pretty upset with that idea. I'd like a new vehicle sure, but my Escape being lost wasn't part of my plan.
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