Hail Damage

[Knightmayre]

Took it to The Dent Shed as they're just up the road from me in Airport West. (1800 042 450)

Much nicer people than the place CommInsure made us take her car.

[steveos]

My GTR is going in this morning for repair only a 2 month wait haha

[JZP]

Just got my 4-month old car (Jeep Grand Cherokee) back from Dents and Dings in Campbellfield (RACV endorsed mob). I'm really surprised how well the car came up. I couldn't see any evidence of hail damage, except the trim around the top of the door, which they have on back order for about 8 weeks.

They repaired every panel with 20+ dents on each (including the roof which had heaps more) within one week.

The repair cost wasn't even $5k (which the insurance company covers)!!

Super impressed & would go back any day.

[IOWNU]

As if you let them repair your brand new car?

I would have pushed for them to write it off and got a brand new replacement with no kms on the clock. (At least that is the policy with AAMI, not sure about RACV).

[KURAUN]

they wont write off a car that has less than $5k worth of damage to a purchase price of roughly $35k, even market valve its cheaper for them to repair it and that's what insurance companies try to do save money

[JZP]

  On 03/03/2012 at 4:21 AM, IOWNU said:

As if you let them repair your brand new car?

I would have pushed for them to write it off and got a brand new replacement with no kms on the clock. (At least that is the policy with AAMI, not sure about RACV).

Yep, RACV have a New car replacement clause for cars that are written off within 12 months.

Having seen how good the repairs are, it's hard to argue for a replacement car. In the olden days, sure the car would have been written off, but with the techniques they use today that are so economical (no bog, no paint) - it's really at the insurers discretion whether they write off the car.

I'm sure it would be a different game if the car was totalled in an accident. I'm still astounded that they can fix every panel for so little.

[paulr33]

fyi my ECR33 with 245k on the clock went for $3200

[paulr33]

fyi my 33 is back as YZO427 and registered

i wonder who has it