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Title: Help!!!!!!
Post by: Alexk20 on 20 July 2016, 19:26

Just had a lovely bit of heavy hail, and now the roof and bonnet have a new effect on them any idea what the best thing is to do. Insurance or pay myself

http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/Stu77896/slideshow/

Title: Re: Help!!!!!!
Post by: kalimon on 20 July 2016, 19:51

Just looks like water from your pictures.
My eyes are sh!te though to be fair :sad:

Title: Re: Help!!!!!!
Post by: Alexk20 on 20 July 2016, 20:01

Yeah I know really hard to get a good picture roof and bonnet covered in 5p sized dents very annoying!!

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Post by: JoeGTI on 20 July 2016, 20:04

Wow, hailstones in July, WTF?!

I've seen that happen before and you are going to need a good PDR (Paintless dent removal) guy to sort it out. A good one should be able to fix it 100% but it will be time consuming... is the roof / bonnet literally covered in them?

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Post by: monkeyhanger on 20 July 2016, 20:16

There was a huge hail storm at the port of Emden in July 2013, when all of the first MK7 GTDs and GTIs were just starting to come through - there were thousands or wrecked VWs sat dockside awaiting their lift to the UK and Scandinavian ports.

Title: Re: Help!!!!!!
Post by: Alexk20 on 20 July 2016, 20:18

Yeah literally covered in them about every 6" can't believe it my neighbours car is terrible!!
This is it after one hour
http://i1376.photobucket.com/albums/ah27/Stu77896/image_zpsdroloi2j.jpeg

Title: Re: Help!!!!!!
Post by: monkeyhanger on 20 July 2016, 20:33

If I were you, i'd get a quote for repair from a dent removal specialist. If it's significantly more than the excess on your insurance policy and you've got protected no claims then i'd be going through the insurance. Your insurance will probably go up a little, but not much as it wasn't caused by a driving accident.

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Post by: Bungleaio on 20 July 2016, 20:36

There was a storm local to me at the end of june a few years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0nrucoNXLo

It's quite a regular phenomenon apparently, there are teams of dent repairers that move around to wherever has had a storm.

If it's happened to you then it will have happened to your neighbours so I would just go through your insurance company, they won't penalise you too much other than losing your excess.

Title: Re: Help!!!!!!
Post by: Alexk20 on 20 July 2016, 20:46

Think I will end up going through the insurance, our no claims are protected so not the end of the world crazy weather was 30oC and bright sunshine 10 mins before!!

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Post by: JoeGTI on 20 July 2016, 20:51

That's mental... I'd always associate hail with freezing conditions not the 25-30 degree sun we've had the last week.

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Post by: Booth11 on 20 July 2016, 21:04

That's awful, really feel for you. Insurance should sort it.

We had a massive hail storm here after a hot day a couple weekends ago, started just as I was walking back to my car.  Never seen hailstones that size before, bouncing off every panel they were, but was coming down so hard you couldn't tell if they were causing damage.  Driving home in it, I was crapping myself and expecting the worst so was utterly amazed to see no dents at all. 

Hope you get it sorted ok.

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Post by: Tory on 20 July 2016, 23:52

This happened in a few places out your way. My company car parks residents are now covered in pin prick dents! For once in my life I'm glad I was in Grimsby

Title: Re: Help!!!!!!
Post by: Alexk20 on 21 July 2016, 22:59

Well there is a bit of good news! Rang the insurance today and the car will be going away to be repaired next Friday will just have to make due with the corsa courtesy car!!!