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997 Turbo - 1, Fox - 0

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glamdring

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Well okay, not quite nil for the fox ....

On way my way home this morning (I had literally just hung up the phone talking to Geoff, in fact, who was getting his Turbo S Paintshield-ed), when a lovely young fox decided to run out from the side of the A15 and headbutted the side of my car. Absolutely zero time to react, and I was doing about 85mph so you can imagine there was a bit of an impact.

I groaned, pulled over to the side of the road and this is what I saw.

It's not major bad - basically the fox's head has connected with the mudflap bit in front of the rear right wheel, and fox's head/body has got shunted away from the rest of the car. But the mudflap bit has had one of the connectors inside sheared off, so it's now hanging semi-loose on the side of the car.

Given the insurance excess and how easy this looks to fix, does anyone know where I can acquire one of these pieces, what this piece is actually called, and if it's do-able by me rather than paying an OPC to do it. It certainly looks do-able by me now that I've clambered under the car when I'm home. Anybody got any experience of fixing this maybe?

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Magic, thanks Gary.

I've just gone out and removed the sill as I don't think the it's a good idea to drive it with that flapping about. Seven torx fittings and a bit of elbow grease has got it off. Turbo looks like a 4x4 now with improved ground clearance :)

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Yeah unfortunately it's not just the clips, it's snapped the bracket off at the back where it bolts into the rear mudguard. May as well see if Cambridge OPC can fit it back for me if it's only £150-ish for the part.
 
Just as well you were going so slowly otherwise it might have really caused some damage............I am impressed that you were able to tell it was a young one though.[;)] I reckon it's a PC job too really Matt.
 
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