well i was drivin home tonight and out of nowhere a deer comes running from the field.[ohcrap] i crammed the brakes, came to a complete stop, and probably missed it by about an inch. if i had been in any other of the cars i have owned, i probably would have hit it. i love the svts brakes.

Damn wildlife. Good thing we have great brakes.

Yes good brakes overall. Wildlife is fine, we are the aliens.

With tint on your whindshield,i think the deer would dead ^^

Yeah, and i would have take it for dinner.

Glad you didn't hit it.

i thought this was gonna be a bad thread........

I thought I was going to be reading about a broken SVT - glad to hear its all ok

haha, Sub-title, still one more SVT on the road.

Woo Hoo for ABS and bad ass stopping power!

These braking system have gotten me outta trouble on several occasions, that's for sure.

These braking system have gotten me outta trouble on several occasions, that's for sure.

yea this wasnt the first time the brakes got me out of a collision. around here i have dodged so many deer i cant even keep count.

I was just thinking the same thing today, I do love my brakes. Cant wait to upgrade them this spring, make them a bit better.

come to the u.p you have to get use to deer, they are all over, and prolyl once a mont i see a deer running around town, or one gettng hit in town, its funny

come to the u.p you have to get use to deer, they are all over, and prolyl once a mont i see a deer running around town, or one gettng hit in town, its funny

i think rural ohio has to be the worst for deer. i have hit one with my fathers mystique back about a year ago. they just seem to love headlights. doesnt matter if you lay on the horn or not the just wanna run right in the path of your car

I thought I was going to be reading about a broken SVT - glad to hear its all ok

yea it was pretty close to bein that kind of thread. but the svt brakes came through in the end. why do deer run into the headlights that they should be running away from???

lol yea deer aint the brightest id have to say the deer population up here if 5 times the population of the u.p, if not more lol, yay for huntings!

lol yea deer aint the brightest id have to say the deer population up here if 5 times the population of the u.p, if not more lol, yay for huntings!

yea!!! there are too many deer around here. im not tryin to be a nazi but kill them all!! (i am a histoy major)

ok i spelled history wrong, i am a little drunk. my bad.[dunno]

We don't have deer in Ohio! LOL J/K! What I think is funny, is the guys during hunting season go out in the middle of the woods and freeze their butts off and see maybe one deer the whole time, when all they have to do is drive up and down a back road in a nice warm vehicle and they can hit all the deer they want. [rofl] I drive truck for a living, and I splattered two so far this winter. It's so funny to watch them fly off the front of the truck. Ofcourse, they sure do alot of damage.

come to the u.p you have to get use to deer, they are all over, and prolyl once a mont i see a deer running around town, or one gettng hit in town, its funny


It's actually dangerous for people in little car.[paranoid]

yea!!! there are too many deer around here. im not tryin to be a nazi but kill them all!! (i am a histoy major)

Rodents with antlers. [gunfire] .........................[target]

I thought thais was also gonna be a bad thread...I only saw deer come close to my car a couple times thankfully and none hit it thankfully...

I haven't ever had a problem with deer. I live in a nice developed area.

On why deer freeze in headlights, i read, is because something in their brain goes into somewhat of a trance and they just stare without any instinct telling them to move. On that, i would guess that the best way to get one to move would be to slam the brakes, lay on the horn, and turn off lights (you could probaly leave the fogs on or atleast the parking lights). That should work...
Oh yeah, praying wouldnt hurt. lol

Thats just my $.02

Haha, praying might work. Darn deer. LoL

The svt brakes have saved me so many times. P'cola Drivers suck. Thank you SVT for awesome brakes.

Drivers in general suck man, not just in Pensacola.

yah these Baer brakes are the shit ;) lol jj I never felt stock SVT brakes...my car has always had the kit on it.

Deer almost ruined our Windstar, ALMOST my Focus on a few occasions, my friends Ram Daytona, and a beautiful Scirocco that a guy in my neighborhood had, which couldn't be repaired :( Makes a good case for hunting and living in the city. Those deer whistle things are about as effective as an electric turbo too right?

yes, that would be an accurate gesture I believe.

why do deer run into the headlights that they should be running away from???

People dump on/make fun of deer for freezing in front of approaching headlights, but from my experience, human behavior is often just as cosmically - and often fatally - dumb in the face of a sudden life-threatening crisis.

I've personally seen, and heard of many more, morons who lose control of their vehicles (dumb-assed in itself - a whole other topic) and instead of applying opposite lock or doing something, ANYTHING but going down without a fight, they throw up their hands, cover their eyes and passively meet their fate, abandoning the tools for their salvation which lie immediately at hand. So here we are, each with our 1500cc of yogurt-like mass that passes for a brain, our powers of speech, and two perfectly good opposable thumbs, and for all the hundreds of millions of years of evolution it took to get us this far, in the face of crisis all many of us can manage to do is scream and flail spastically, riding our express elevators straight to hell. And the coroner's slab.

This freeze/flip out reaction is counter-survival for sure, but unfortunately is as natural to deer as it is to humans, but lacking the training for survival in a technological world, not to mention having no hands, let alone opposable thumbs, and a paltry 200cc or so devoted to their central processing units, deer should be cut a little slack for not always instantly knowing how to handle it when roaring metal beasts between two to fifty tons, with fiendishly glowing eyes and unearthly velocity, are suddenly upon them.

Moreover, the most deer get hit by vehicles during hunting season, when they are already super-freaked-out running away from hunters and their guns. Freezing is what animals often do when they feel cornered, having to choose between running away from one approaching menace or the other. It is a subset of the fight/flight response built into every animal. Freezing is what happens when the creature sees danger in either fighting or running; escaping one menace means going right into the claws, teeth, bullets, hood ornament of another. So the poor deer locks up with indecision, thereby choosing his funeral.

As for us drivers, we control our mechanisms, we have far greater capacity to understand our surroundings, and we possess far better tools for insuring our survival. So what's our excuse? DOH!! [scratch] Who better deserves our derision? The poor micro-cephalic animal who is neither equipped nor ever signed up for this technological world we foul-smelling naked bipeds have created, or we who are supposed to be so much smarter, with our vastly bigger brains as well as every other advantage, often doing little if any better at surviving when faced with similar do-or-die circumstances.

[giggle] [slap] [goofydrunk]

simple explaination, they freeze to turn on their camoflage. Unfortunately their not in Kansas anymore Dorothy.

lol I liked that post...and if you were drunk writing that good god man that's awesome :D

Wow, that was a long explenation just to say they're hiding. LoL

Oh deer. Someone had to say it.

hahaha!!
Yes good brakes overall. Wildlife is fine, we are the aliens.

No they didn't aus.spec. That was un-called for. HAha, j/k

Mmmm, venison.

Ewwww, not the choice way of getting it. Though it WOULD be tenderized already. . . .