A deer hit my son's 06 TL. He's OK, deer not so much and TL has damage to left front bumper & fender.

I haven't seen the car because he's in another state right now.

He sent me some photos and I'm hoping someone here can identify the hose that is detached. What is it and is the car OK to drive like that? Just to the Repair Shop.

Thanks

 

The hose you speak of is the air intake tubing and its resonator.

a lot of our members remove the resonator(the box looking thing) to get a deep throaty sound when accelerating.

 

that black plastic hollow tube? that is the entrance to the air intake, i'm sure its probably ok to drive like that, but who knows what else was damaged if anything.

glad to hear your son is ok. deers are a pain in the ass. many times it is THEM that hit US. its happened to me twice. good luck with the repairs, hope it's mostly cosmetic.

 

Looks mostly cosmetic Yes it's safe to drive.

 

Thanks for the responses.

So, driving with that Air Intake Tubing disconnected is OK?

 

yes, you can completly remove that box, and its still ok to drive.

 

Ouch! Sorry to see the damage. Glad your son is okay.

 

damn here on Puerto Rico we see fucking cows and horses getting on the road and they are hard as hell, on crash head on with one of those animal will totaled your car out.

So good that your son is ok and keep driving it, will do ok

 

Thanks for the info guys. It's good to know.

 

Was it bambi?

That's the least amount of damage I've seen a deer do. Glad your son is okay!

 

Agreed. You've probably seen the picture of Bambi stuffed all the way up to the firewall of some BMW....

 

WTF. Where are the pics of the deer. Good to know your sons ahight.

 

The old "I hit a deer" trick; sounds fishy to me w/ very little damage.......

 

glad your son is okay ... damn deer are overpopulated ... doesn't look like too much damage from what i can see, hopefully the repairs get the car looking back to preaccident condition

 

Yep and in person as well. A whitetail took out my buddies suburban.. The whole front end was destroyed. It did more damage than bumblebee did.

 

A deer jumped out and hit my TL when I had it....dent in driver door just below mirror and a huge amt of hair sticking out of the tire/rim...that was it. Sold it shortly after getting it fixed.

 

My Bad. I should've known you guys would want to see the dead deer photos. LOL

It happened at night on a 50 mph Highway. The deer was actually struck first by a truck going in the opposite direction and then thrown/propelled into the TL. Unlucky timing but very lucky it wasn't worse.

 

I would have gut it and taken it to the butcher to make venison steaks. Trunk tray FTW!

 

Deer meat/road kill yummy lol, naaah glad your son is ok like others members said its fine to drive the car just replace the front bumber asap

 

Om nom nom!