As above, i was driving to work this morning on a fast a-road when a suicidal pigeon jumped out on me. At first i thought it had just hit my car and exploded into a ball of feathers but after stopping at work and looking into the bonnet scoop ive realised that wasnt the case!

So Ive pulled the mangled carcass out and picked all the feathers out of the intercooler but is there anything else i need to do? Just worried it may have done some damage i cant see

 

Notify the family

 

what did it splat? right onto the intercooler?

o and p.s.

before anyone else says, what was the last thing to go through its mind? it's ****,,,,,,,

 

I actually burst out laughing at this! Used to work at Eurotunnel for several years and always came across lorries with sparrows, pigeons ect stuck on their grills but never heard of this!

 

Funky Pigeon.splat

It always gets me with birds, why fly at car level?

 

Luckily it got caught between two of the fins in the scoop so just feathers on the intercooler - although only half the pigeon was left. I have no idea where the other half went!

 

you do realise a choppa is a motorbike or helicopter?

 

My car tried to eat a deer last week and yes I've had all the oh dear jokes.

 

Was you on your way to a Stag Do?

 

Came across (shush!) two love-struck pheasants at speed in the middle of the road one evening. Slammed on the brakes and missed the first but the second one probably never knew what hit it.

£600 all in for the new grille, bonnet repair and front end respray.

A bird strike ain't cheep!

 

This made me chuckle

 

I'm still curious as to where the other half of the pigeon is though ... do let us know if you find it.

 

Feel your pain, on my 3rd front splitter this year already due to kamikaze wildlife!

 

Had a bird hit the roof of the car just above the windscreen on the drivers side whilst I was proceeding up the M4 early one morning.....hell of a bang but didn't see where the bird went

 

I once hit a pheasant in my Xantia.....found the rear half, perfectly cooked, stuck to the rad, a week later when I went to fix the busted headlight mounting.

 

You obviously weren't going fast enough!, I once hit a rabbit at over 130mph when I opened the bonnet up all that was left was a few bits of fur & rabbit pellets all over the engine bay!

 

Mystery solved....the bird was cut in half by the bonnet scoop half in the engine the other half bounced across the roof and left a trail of guts all the way onto my spoiler. Feel sorry for the lad who had to clean it off at the car wash but he did see the funny side

#spatchcock

 

This then proves that the spoiler is taking airflow from the front of the car, and hence is functioning fine