I hit a deer

I live on a deer path. There are a few strikes on our road every fall.

I've found a few deer whistles amongst the shattered wreckage that turns up on my curb, so I don't think they work well.

Sept-Dec, nothing works as well as slowing down.

 

My wife and I bought a brand new Sonata and argued about them. The very next day she hit a deer and ripped the front end off the car. After making 3 payments before getting to enjoy the car at all we agreed that she was out of line and that the car should have deer whistles. Not a week later a big buck was running full sprint down an embankment and heard my whistles and locked em up. Front hoofs out front sliding. He slid to a stop and stood there terrified and watched me pass. They only work when you are going atleast 35. When I pass deer doing 25 sometimes they don't even look up. Like if there isn't enough airflow or the deer doesn't hear them they don't help obviously. Good investment for 8 bucks at autozone. Pun intended.

 

If they are in rut, they are oblivious to us!

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Try using bells?
(very old joke: "Q: Why do cows in Switzerland have bells hung around their necks? A: For those occasions when their horns don't work! (…rim shot)")

 

Were these whistles plugged and disabled by insects?

Because we can't hear them, I guess we just don't know.

 

They could have worked perfectly and the car simply hit another car- never know when you're sweeping up bits well after the fact.

On the other hand I could never reconcile the claimed performance of these whistles with the lack of complaints from dog owners.

 

They are easy to replace. Plenty of videos on youtube. Can probably be done in 30-40 minutes by someone who has never done it before. The headlight assembly is held in place by three screws. The screws can be accessed by loosening the bumper cover near the light and the plastic cover under the hood near the light. Again, watch some videos first and you'll see how simple it really is. AutoZone has the plastic rivets in case you break any. About 5 bucks for a pack of 6 or something like that.

Are they Halogen or HID? Halogen if you don't have foglights.

 

as long as the deer, and it's immediate family, hasn't hired a lawyer, you should be OK.....

 

You can hear mine if you blow in them... One is much higher pitched than the other even new...

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Adjustment bolt/screw on the on the back of headlight unit can be adjusted with either socket (8mm if I remember correctly) or using a Philips screwdriver from the top down as a gear.

Headlight should point down a certain degree which should be written on the headlight itself. So you can just use that and calculate how much the beam should drop if when you’re on the level surface parked towards a wall with known distance between the car and wall. Or you can just adjust it a bit down from level.

Here they have done a testing for those whistles for moose (and deer) and came to the conclusion that they do not work.