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  On 13/03/2015 at 8:20 AM, Stagea97 said:

Shell was lucky to get back inside haha, hope she is ok :)

How were your houses guys? No tile damage or anything else?

Goodluck to everyone on their insurance claims and that it goes smoothly.

I said that to her when she called me; we saw a woman knocked unconscious be a huge hailstone a few years ago at the East Coast Nationals at WSID which was the last time it was damaged.

House looks fine; but I'll have to wait for a dry day to get up on the roof.

  On 13/03/2015 at 8:30 AM, cav33r said:

Ok damage report new windscreen massive crack on it 2-3 massive dents on roof and quite a few smaller one same goes for bonnet and boot. Now claim insurance or get my dent repairer mate for a cashie

That sucks; our repairer told me that the dents on out car are too deep for PDR this time. :/

  On 13/03/2015 at 11:00 AM, JZP said:

PDR is pretty advanced these days.

My jeep grand was hit all sides a couple of years ago. They repaired it completely with PDR for less than $5k within 5 business days.

The repair was fantastic and you couldn't tell it was ever damaged.

There are some very skilled operators in this area; we've had great success with PDR in the past. :thumbsup:

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Commiserations to Adrian and Dale too. Apparently the hail had a spread from Blackheath down to Springwood but I believe it rained monster hail down near us. NRMA which insure my Mum's Mazda2 and Maria's Volvo XC60 T6 are banked up arranging calls to the insured; arranging for them to bring their cars to a demountable assessment site that's local next week.

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The Mazda suffered large hail dents due to the thin skin. There also quite a few.

Quantity and severity on the Volvo amount to less in depth and less in number. The skin is evidently thicker - noticeably so.

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  On 13/03/2015 at 11:00 AM, JZP said:

PDR is pretty advanced these days.

My jeep grand was hit all sides a couple of years ago. They repaired it completely with PDR for less than $5k within 5 business days.

The repair was fantastic and you couldn't tell it was ever damaged.

yeah ive seen the guy we use at work get dent out that i couldnt imagine anyone being able to fix without bogging it up an re spraying so im staying hopeful until he gets the chance to go over it
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  On 13/03/2015 at 11:20 PM, cav33r said:

I spoke to my dent remover an showed him the pics. He basically said be prepared to strip out any parts of the car you want. So im not a haopy camper so far today

Awwww, that sucks.

Waiting to hear the verdict with ours...

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Just got my first quote. Its 7600 plus adjustments an the cars insured for 11k. Got one more to go i just hope the assessor is in a good mood an decides they will fix it instead of writing it off

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  On 17/03/2015 at 7:00 AM, cav33r said:

Just got my first quote. Its 7600 plus adjustments an the cars insured for 11k. Got one more to go i just hope the assessor is in a good mood an decides they will fix it instead of writing it off

With those numbers I think they will fix it.

In the old days 60% of value, written off. Now days 75%-80% and they still fix it.

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What do you reckon they will say dale? I still have to get one more quote an see what happens. Has anyone ever fought a insurance company in regards to writing a car off due to hail? Because by the look ofthe first quote im going to be right on the boarder line of being written off.

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  On 20/03/2015 at 5:08 AM, Stagea97 said:

Could always buy it back? Not sure on how that process works though

Will need to be repaired and blue slipped to get off written off register I believe??

I had a car written off and paid out 3500 but only cost 400 to buy it back... Might be worth it depending on repair costs.

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