Encountered a kamikazi pheasant on the way in to work this morning...

Totally wrecked the driver's side xenon headlight unit, bust the wiper arm and damaged the sidelight unit and electrical connection for the sidelight.

Now need to get the bits replaced in a big hurry, as car needed for work next week. Having to use SWMBO's ST220, it's too fast for me and it's got a manual gearbox (clutch in...then change gear...crunch, grind, stall, !!).


Got pics of the mess, but can't seem to upload them.

Am going to PM Cam-Tech-Craig, to see if I can get the required bits off him. I hope you can help sir!!

Did same in my Disco 2 Headlight, Headlight washer and Trim below headlight over £100 but on a FF going to hurt! Mine was a blue one!

If it's going to cost you a fortune - possible insurance claim?

Pheasants are ALWAYS Kamikaze, especially the Males

Around here in mid Wales there are that many of them they hunt in packs

The worst thing about the things is that they always take off at the last minute - if they stayed on the ground they would either run clear, or meet their maker quicly under the tyres of a c2.5 ton vehicle.

I had one total the windscreen in my Defender just before Christmas - had the screen replaced as an insurance job (£50 excess |) then wrote the poor Defender off on black ice at 3am Boxing day morning ( at least the new windscreen stayed in one piece - pics will follow i.d.c.

Then got my FF

Best of luck  2006 (56 Reg) 4.4 V8 Vogue In Bonatti Grey (Gorgeous!!)

^ sooo true Ray, I seem to get the Badgers that wonder on the brow of the hills....you can guess who wins ....thump....thump....

ouch, ebay might be your friend here, or Dan  If it dont work.......burn it!

If the IId tool cant fix it.......burn the FF.

If the FF cant be fixed......buy a Land Cruiser!

If the LC cant be fixed..............................................BUY a horse !!

@welshdragon maybe we should use you for the cull.......

 If it dont work.......burn it!

If the IId tool cant fix it.......burn the FF.

If the FF cant be fixed......buy a Land Cruiser!

If the LC cant be fixed..............................................BUY a horse !!

Hell, that's bad, hope the pheasants ok???

Pheasants OK, it's the pheasant plucker who isn't!!!  2006 (56 Reg) 4.4 V8 Vogue In Bonatti Grey (Gorgeous!!)

Hmm, think I've managed to get one photo on.




Don't think the pheasant is ok after that impact!!

Hi I have the parts you need located Washington just out of Newcastle, If you don't get sorted give me a shout,
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that's nasty

Sooo what you having for tea tonight then.....pheasant any chance  If it dont work.......burn it!

If the IId tool cant fix it.......burn the FF.

If the FF cant be fixed......buy a Land Cruiser!

If the LC cant be fixed..............................................BUY a horse !!

Mick-ne, many thanks for the offer, Cam-Tech-Craig is getting me sorted, so should be okay, but will keep you in mind if there's any complications.

Welshdragon, wouldn't mind a nice bit of pheasant for tea, but there was -all left of it once I'd extricated its arsehole from the light!!

Poor pheasant! Couldn't you have avoided it???

It was a case of 'Kamikazi Chicken' on the pheasant's part. As it happened on a very narrow section of a B-road, there was no way I could have swerved to avoid it. The weird thing was that at first it was flying as if it was going to pass me (like the bit in 'Top Gun' when the fighter planes go past each other), then at almost the last second it veered straight at me, folded in its wings and hit smack bang (and what a bang!!) head-on into my headlight. I had to pull over 100 yards up the road where there was a little layby and extricate the bird from my light housing!!

Totally bizarre behaviour!! Don't know what the bird was thinking prior to the impact, but I do know that the last thing that went through its mind.....was its arsehole.

Suicide bomber? Ian