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Nuts.... How did it get into such a small area without damaging any part of the front end?

 

Holy crap, i vote this for the best animal related thread ever LOL

 

whoa man i am still puzzled at how ur buddy hit a raccoon and all the sudden it ends up inside ur engine area....????

 

woah, i've seen a lot, but this is the first

 

My thoughts exactly..

 

holy, this is a first. i am curious how your friend can hit it and it ended up INSIDE the engine bay. seems like front lip cracked?

 

Damn, never seen this before. About how fast was your buddy driving? Surprised it didn't die, but it must have something broken. Haha, the picture with the racoon sticking only its head out of the engine bay is amusing =]

 

wow.....this is pretty crazy....never seen such things like this before

 

ROFL! did animal control get the raccoon out or did you?

 

I remember last yr, a 2GS guy had fire ants... course everyone thought that was pretty funny... BUT a raccoon??? gonna keep um? sell um to some of our southern members for stew?

hehe CL mascot FTW!!!

 

Wow. if not for the pics i dunno if i would have believed it..how far did he drive with the little critter on board??????????

 

There was little damage to the front area of the bumper. Mainly the lower grille and the outside temp. sensor. The sensor and the piece used to attach the sensor was broken, but some glue will fix it. Otherwise the sensor works perfectly fine.

The lip was cracked prior to hitting it, thats the cost of riding low. lol

He was going around 30MPH or so when the raccoon jumped out. I believe something was broken or something was going on because it didn't run off like a normal animal would.

Unfortunately they never came and we could never get into contact with them because they were closed. We had to remove the bumper to try to free it. My friend released it back into the woods.

He drove a good mile or 2 before he got home. When he was hosing it off, he noticed hair and jumped back. His lil boy says "daddy whats wrong?" lol

 

haha so ultimately how did it get INSIDE the car, through the lower grille mesh?

 

I'm thinking the impact flapped the grill up and in allowing the raccoon up inside and then it flapped down again. It appears that it's not fully clipped in at the bottom in the first two pics.