Just thought I'd share something that made me want to vomit this morning.

I went into my garage to finish detailing a 2007 RX-8 GT my father's dealership took in from a Mazda dealer and I see a bunch of stuff jammed in btwn the oil coolers and bumper - looked like a bunch of leaves to me at first:



So I grabbed my gloves and proceeded to pull it out. I had washed the car yesterday night so this mass of stuff was still kind of soggy. After grabbing it, it became immediately clear this wasn't a ball of leaves -___-"

Anyways I grab a plastic bag, brace myself, and pull out this soggy mass and... ta-da:

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Yeaaaap.

Makes me kind of glad I have oil cooler screens on my R3 now.

 

I had that a few months ago in my lower air dam, right in the back. I dont know why our cars are prone to eating birds.

 

yummy

 

Poor bird...

 

rotaries love to eat oil..........and birds

 

Oh man.............

 

how does that happen lol. The person mustve been driving like 120 km/h.

 

Ewwwwwwwww

 

For all of the years I've owned my 8 I've never hit a bird...

That guy must have been jumping hills or something because I never see birds fly that low.

 

Had one in my cabin filter

 

Thats still a little better than the DEER that bounced off the front of my Tundra 2 Sundays ago lol.

 

Almost ran into a seagull the other day.

 

Had a deer do a dukes of hazard hood slide on my 85 corollas couple months back, almost no damage, and RX8 a bird too, similar to OP.

 

hit a bird on my windshied while accelerating. i was going liek 120km/h at the time of hittin it
luckily it didnt crack my windshield. went back to see if i killed it. there was ntn there

 

If you are moving that fast
the birs have no time to react

 

I hit a pigeon on the 401 a few months back. Scared the hell out of me! I was doing 130 in the fast lane about 4 car lengths behind a van. The van apparently drove over a pigeon that decided to land in the middle of the lane. As the van passed over it took off.. It made it about a foot off the ground before I hit it. All I heard was a thump and saw a huge cloud of feathers behind the car!! I pulled off at the next exit but couldn't find a scratch. I got off lucky :-)

 

i once hit 3 birds in one week two on the same day separated by a few hours.

 

I've hit a couple rabbits and a prairie dog in my 8, never a bird though.

 

was making a sales call at a shop one day ... car was in because it was running a tad hot ... this is what the tech was telling me ... then he tells me to look from underneath as the car was on the lift ... sob a pair of roadrunner legs sticking down the remainder in front of the radiator ... ewww sad way for a cartoon character to meet it's end

 

I clouted a raccoon with my 8. The raccoon ended up dead and my car did not have a scratch.

 

I caught one on the left side...
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