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well im pretty pissed of today as i was reversing out of my garage (how unlucky is this) my garage decided it would be a good idea to just fold and come crashing down right onto of my skyline...as my car was in reverse it kept going so scratching it deeply from the end of the roof (near rear window) all the way til it hit my sunroof which was in a tilted position and that wedged itself into one of the groove of the garage and pretty much ripped out one of the rails...might i add this is an electric roller door, so then i stopped the car jumped out put the garage on manual, and drove my car foward to release it from my sunroof then it just went stright onto my roof and wedged my car inbetween..i was like f**k couldnt move it as it was out of the rails luckily my mate had rang me whom was around the cornor, came over and helped me get my car out, finally did that and the grabbed my neighbour whom is a handyman and he helped fix my garage so now its pretty much ok bit bent but ok...but my car omg the roof is just scratched to shit, im just so cut after you get it running mechanically fine something like that happens pure bad luck so that just tops of the rest of my shitty ass week.....any one have any idea what i would be looking at to get the roof resprayed?

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oh f**k , my dad had that happen but not to that extreme, he was backing out and sat on the remote to the roller door.

landed on the boot, lucky he had these thick rubber strips on the door, and the door realised there was a car there and went back up.

seen in XXX bodykits window on Cheltenham road Keysborough. '$750 respray any car' .. somthing like that

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damn that sucks man. almost happened to me the day i got my R34. mate sat on the remote and garage started to close car was half way in but trailer was behind me. good thing car was running so had to boot it out.

thats just unlucky though. hope it hasnt taken paint of that it will start to rust.

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at the momet its looks ok...dont think any paint came off..but a couple of deep scratches which are roof length long rest is scrapage....its just i couldnt beleive how it happened, i cant even explain normally my garage would just go back up but didnt do that so i guess it buckeld

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do you have house insurance? a friend had some gear stolen out of his wifes car and the house insurance covered it due to the car being on the property when the stuff was stolen. excess may be cheaper then paying for it outta your own pocket.

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do you have house insurance? a friend had some gear stolen out of his wifes car and the house insurance covered it due to the car being on the property when the stuff was stolen. excess may be cheaper then paying for it outta your own pocket.

Thats a good call Ron..

Coz just say my car was parked in your driveway and your tree fell on it

you Home insurance would cover it..

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eh dont think house insurance will cover it...cuz my old man said someone reversed into..dunno why, but if i say it came down onto my roof how could i possibly prove it wasnt my fault like i didnt accidently hit the button you know

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^^^^ Doesn't matter dude, your insurance will still cover it, well if your insurance company is a good one it will. Exact same thing happened to a mate of mine in Taylors hill the other week, High wind screwed his garage (panel roller) and he didn't know. Opened door up started to drive out and the thing let go and crashed onto his car! His house insurance covered it.

Can't hurt to call them to see

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