[AT] Some background to your tire/ rim issue.

[Ralph Goff]

On 1/9/2019 5:29 PM, Phil Auten wrote:
>
> Wow, some of you guys and family members have been really lucky. I've 
> been lucky in that I've never hit one (oops, now I'm jinxed) but have 
> seen the results and it ain't pretty. Glad to hear nobody has been 
> seriously hurt.
>
> Phil in TX
>
So far it has been the deer hitting me, not the other way around. About 
40 years ago a buck came up out of the highway ditch not far ahead. I 
left a bit of rubber on the pavement and the buck bounced his head off 
the right front fender of the old IH pickup. No harm done and the truck 
still looks good.

Last fall cruising home on the grid at night and this crazed deer comes 
tearing up the steep bank of the ditch (and that is a steep climb) and 
launches itself at the side of my Chevy Blazer making a terrible bang 
scaring me half to death. I didn't stop til I got to the yard to examine 
the vehicle. Could not find any damage, just a scuff mark in the dried 
mud on the rear driver side door. Its like they are playing chicken. Any 
animal with half a brain might think "run away from the noisy fast 
moving bright lights coming at me". But no, not the white tail deer. 
They are dead set on going straight on course with no diversions for 
anything.

Ralph in Sask.




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