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My poor 1988 240 sedan. Driving home tonight, I hit a deer. I was going about 45mph, driver coming in other direction left his highbeams on (nice fellow) and deer ran acrross in front of his (or her, dont want to be sexist) car, made it about halfway across the front of mine before i clipped it.
Damage: Lost grille, front passanger headlight assembly, dinged radiatior, slightly creased hood (just in the very front) and now poor baby is leaking TONS of what I think is transmission fluid. I drove it about 1/4 mile to get it to a parking lot after doing a quick fluid level check - everything still looked within the proper range. It looks like it is bleeding, since the fluid is a nice bright red color. I think the metal line that carries the transmission fluid is cracked, since I could see where it was coming from under the car, behind the engine compartment. All this after having just gotten it tuned up after 150k miles.
Questions: Any estimates on how much this is going to set me back? I'm interested in trading to a manual station wagon, would this be the time to do that? Secretly, though, I think I may not be able to part with the sedan, since it did a hell of a job protecting me & my pregnant wife on the way home....
Anyway, any guesses or sympathy welcome. And, it sure is nice to drive a car that doesnt implode when you hit stuff.
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