Hail....arrggh!

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NewOwner FL

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Well, the car is 8 weeks old and Florida decided to dump some jawbreaker sized hail on us this morning!



I am sitting in my office hearing it fall and I am freaking out :nervous2:



I am scared to go look at it later on...:soscared:



Has anyone been through this before? Is there a therapy group I can join for support?
 
A friend of mine had his company car go through a hail storm a few years ago in Indy. It was a white Grand Prix (or something similar). He took me out to show it to me when I stopped by his office one day, and it looked like a freakin' golf ball! I laughed so hard I was crying.

Good news was that he had the option of buying it from the company (which he did), turned in the insurance claim on it which was for full value (more expensive to fix than the car was worth), pocketed the money and drove his 'golf ball' for a few more years with the money from insurance in his pocket!



*I know this doens't help your situation, I just had to tell the story of the car that looked like a golf ball. ;)
 
thanks compressornsc



Thats a funny story! I need a little comic relief today as I have no fingernails left!



FWIW, a co-worker of mine has a 10-week old Mustang and she is freaking out too! :eek:



So, on my way home tonight I am stopping by the ATM and taking out $250. Then I am going to a fine used car lot and purchasing a 1986 Ford Escort with 250,000 miles on it. Let the hail come now ;)
 
kompressornsc said:
A friend of mine had his company car go through a hail storm a few years ago in Indy. It was a white Grand Prix (or something similar). He took me out to show it to me when I stopped by his office one day, and it looked like a freakin' golf ball! I laughed so hard I was crying.

Good news was that he had the option of buying it from the company (which he did), turned in the insurance claim on it which was for full value (more expensive to fix than the car was worth), pocketed the money and drove his 'golf ball' for a few more years with the money from insurance in his pocket!
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I have a friend that went through the same thing with his Eclipse. He ended up buying 2 junkyard fenders and a hood and then the paintless dent guy fixed the roof. They paid him about $5k for the car, he bought it back for $250 and then spend $700 on paint and parts. Yay for older cars and junkyards!



Problem is, with a brand new car, they probably won't total it. Then you have the risk of an improper repair job :(
 
NewOwner FL said:
sQuashed



I dont know yet...I will have to wait until my lunch hour.



I don't want to look!! :sadpace:
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These moments must be killing you:nervous2: :nervous2:

All I can do now is wish you the best of luck when you go outside !!!
 
Sorry to hear that, Hopefully the hail didn't have the density to cause damage. I have family in the Sun City area, I wonder if they got hit as well.



Let us know the outcome.
 
Thanks sQuashed and General Lee sir for your well wishes!



General, here is a link to our local fish wrap with the storm outlook. Sun City should be ok as they are pretty well southeast of where it is sitting right now. Hopefully by the time it gets to them it will be empty of all the bad stuff.



http://update.sptimes.com/#AN_qokwb
 
I've had two cars clobbered by hail. My brother's new truck was creamed. Just the price you pay for living in north Texas, I guess.
 
Drove thru a Hail storm in Southeast Alabama a couple of years ago. Probably the scariest time for me and my truck.



Thankfully nothing happened but a Tornado did go over head.



I thought I remeber someone saying something about dry ice for getting dents out awhile back. Not sure though.



Steve
 
The rain hasn't let up! :sosad



I couldn't go out and look at it at lunch...I'm a basket case now.



I'm submitting my requisition to the president for carports today ;)



2:45 until I can check on my baby out there all alone in the parking lot.
 
Ok...we didn't do too bad actually. There is one hit on the roof that is about the size of a silver dollar and then about ten nickel sized hits on the hood. Probably enough to hurt the wallet, but not enough to make me cry like a little girl :bawling: (I already did that earlier when the storm was at its worst!!)



I may take some pics tomorrow if the sun is out and let you all see the wonders of frozen poo flying through the air.



If anyone has had to deal with insurance on this, I would really appreciate hearing of your experiences.



Also, are there any DIY methods of getting this stuff out? We have a plunger...:idea
 
Ahhh, sorry you ended up with some damage. I don't have any experience dealing with insurance on hail issues, but it is a common thing so you shouldn't have any problems.



I remember an old friend of mine telling me the best way to remove hail dings is to find a shop that will remove them from the inside out instead of trying to pop them out from the outside surface. Ask some different shops in your area and see what they say.
 
This is the hail story forum? 2 or 3 years ago we had a localized doozie here--they were golf-ball size. I was at work--and everyone got dinged. I have about 150-200 hail dents on my car, which is old. We had a whole range of cars damaged...one guy with a new Honda Civic had $5000 worth which insurance paid, another guy got his car totaled for about $3000 (and as in the above story, pocketed the money and is still driving the car). Some local car dealers got hit and had "hail sales".



The funny thing was a lot of traveling hail dent places showed up in the area, one of which was using a local gas station that I frequent as a base of operations. I was asking the station owner about it and he said he always uses a PDR guy for door dings...but the PDR guy couldn't handle a car with hundreds of dents, and that these hail dent repair places watch the weather channel and follow the bad storms around. Several of the places were from the Texas area (:wavey Scott), this one was from St. Louis...they camped out at that station for a couple of months doing the work in their little tents (so you couldn't see what they were actually doing). My mother got caught in the same storm, they quoted us each about $2000 to fix our cars, although I don't know anyone that actually used one of those services (the gas station owner said they were going to fix his Lexus SUV before they left--he said the work was excellent and you would never know...)



PS I might have a picture somewhere...
 
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