Looks like we may have lost another GN to hail damage.
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That is a hail of a way to go...
Very true.
I agree, if it was my car I would fix it for sure.
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If it was appraised at 22k like he said it was..... must have been hailing bulldozors to total it out.
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only read the first page, but what caught my eye was that the guy who owned the shop where the car was sitting when it got the hail damage was wanting to buy the car from him, and he's the one that was telling him it was junk.. hmmm..
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just had dent wizard take a ton of dings out of mine....hail damage from long before i bought it...did an awesome job and now i dont have to look at them anymore when i finish washing or detailing it
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If they total tell him I will buy the salvage:biggrin:
I'm like Ty, unless potato's fell I can't imagine it being that bad
I'm like Ty, unless potato's fell I can't imagine it being that bad
Yeah, I'm not buying hail as a reason to total any collector car.
Wife's driver just got hammered with $3,300 damage, paintless. Hundreds of nickel sized hail got everything but the drivers door and liftgate. Another, a freind of mine got hit with 2" hail but was luckily nosed right into it and only his cab's top surfaces needs repainted, $2,200.
Seems that some people like to make a big deal of it and others buy into it. My dad got a Great deal on a hail damaged 930 turbo once. A little massage, a little paint,,,wa-la!
Wife's driver just got hammered with $3,300 damage, paintless. Hundreds of nickel sized hail got everything but the drivers door and liftgate. Another, a freind of mine got hit with 2" hail but was luckily nosed right into it and only his cab's top surfaces needs repainted, $2,200.
Seems that some people like to make a big deal of it and others buy into it. My dad got a Great deal on a hail damaged 930 turbo once. A little massage, a little paint,,,wa-la!
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If you guys could see the suv my nephew bought,a couple yrs ago,for almost nothing,you would change your mind,no dent wizard was going to fix that one,i wish i had gotten pics,but the motor ended up dying + he junked it.
That is why every time they say possibility of hail i put the cover on the car outside with padding underneith,last night i had to do it in a hurry so i just put a bunch of mats + some cardboard over the cover,it didn't look to good but i wasn't taking chances, they said some spots were getting 2" hail.
I've seen some where it was just a few here + there, his was absolutely plastered with big dents, no area of the top,was untouched ,his dents had dents.+ all the glass had been replaced also.
but on a classic,i wouldn't just junk it,once you change the hood+ deck lid, thats 2/3rd's of the damage already fixed.
That is why every time they say possibility of hail i put the cover on the car outside with padding underneith,last night i had to do it in a hurry so i just put a bunch of mats + some cardboard over the cover,it didn't look to good but i wasn't taking chances, they said some spots were getting 2" hail.
I've seen some where it was just a few here + there, his was absolutely plastered with big dents, no area of the top,was untouched ,his dents had dents.+ all the glass had been replaced also.
but on a classic,i wouldn't just junk it,once you change the hood+ deck lid, thats 2/3rd's of the damage already fixed.
PDR is the preferred method for hail repair but it does have limits. Only way to know is to take it to a reputable guy and get an estimate. Obviously if it got 4" diameter hail stones its gonna be needing more than PDR, but that type of hail is pretty uncommon. The majority of hail damaged vehicles can be repaired with PDR and if you find a good PDR guy you'll never know it happened. As stated before, even if it got huge hail, replace the hood and trunk, repair or reskin the roof, maybe a window or two, little bit of side damage, and a new paint job that it probably needed anyway. If it's a 30K mile car and worth 22K it would take massive hail to truly total it. My guess is that once the adjuster sees the appraisal they'll change their tune and write the check to fix it. A car like that is far from lost. May wind up looking nicer than it did before the storm, although not "original".
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