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Garage Door Medic Member Since: 02 Feb 2014 Location: North West of UK Posts: 197 |
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Sat Jul 04 2015 8:04pm |
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whippetman Member Since: 12 Jun 2010 Location: on the level Posts: 500 |
Guess insurance will claim it was caused by an act of God.
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Sat Jul 04 2015 8:10pm |
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MikeG Member Since: 25 Jun 2015 Location: North Lincs Posts: 72 |
a good dent company will be able to minimise, maybe not completely remove, the damage. Insurers wont want to know id think and its not worth claiming. |
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Sat Jul 04 2015 8:43pm |
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Lost for Words Member Since: 15 Jan 2015 Location: Warminster, Wiltshire Posts: 1477 |
Whether it's worth caliming is down to your circumstances, but I would think hail damage should be covered on a comprehansive policy. You need to have a good look through your policy wording and exclusions.
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Sun Jul 05 2015 8:56am |
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BKHK Member Since: 05 May 2008 Location: Perth Posts: 1940 |
Hail damage like that is covered here as hailstones that size are not exceptional. The last big one in about 2009 wrote off thousands of cars. |
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Sun Jul 05 2015 11:43am |
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MikeG Member Since: 25 Jun 2015 Location: North Lincs Posts: 72 |
maybe insurers will cover it. is it worth the hike in premium next time around if they can be fixed with Dent Devils etc? EVen so, not nice to see the pride and joy at the mercy of the weather. |
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Sun Jul 05 2015 1:42pm |
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Ady 555 Site Moderator Member Since: 12 Dec 2010 Location: Good old yorkshire Posts: 8738 |
Don't bother with your insurance, have a go at this......
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Sun Jul 05 2015 5:16pm |
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SVR575 Member Since: 16 Apr 2008 Location: uk & Europe Posts: 1827 |
well the heat removed the paint , the spray rusted where the dent was and now i have a hole in the body work. SVR 2018 in Santorini Black. |
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Mon Jul 06 2015 11:17am |
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peanutbob Member Since: 04 Jul 2011 Location: UK Posts: 585 |
The forecast over the weekend was for giant hailstones locally...this didn't occur thankfully. But I was considering beforehand to cover the bonnet and roof with wet towels in the hope that this would soften the impact! Possibly a bit OTT but that was my theory. |
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Mon Jul 06 2015 1:49pm |
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Garage Door Medic Member Since: 02 Feb 2014 Location: North West of UK Posts: 197 |
Peanut Bob WHY did you not let me know
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Mon Jul 06 2015 6:47pm |
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peanutbob Member Since: 04 Jul 2011 Location: UK Posts: 585 |
Sorry about that! I've been there before. Back in the late 80s I had a Cortina Estate which whilst driving near Chester got hit by an avalanche of golf ball size hailstones. I reversed into a farmyard in a desparate desire for shelter, and to avoid the windscreen being stove in. It helped but then a river ran through the yard. The whole roof and bonnet was pot marked by dozens of dents, all quite shallow.
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Mon Jul 06 2015 7:30pm |
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idrabble Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Brisbane Posts: 61 |
here's a couple of quick videos I took of the storm we had in Brisbane last November and it caused roughly $1.1 billion in damages.
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Tue Jul 07 2015 12:22am |
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garrycol Member Since: 30 Nov 2010 Location: Canberra Posts: 1067 |
But that is Brisbane for you - Beautiful one day, raining the next. 07MY RRS TDV6
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Tue Jul 07 2015 9:43am |
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TST717 Member Since: 09 Sep 2012 Location: INVERNESS, Posts: 165 |
ACT OF GOD..........what a convenient way for an insurance company to get out of paying out ........it may have been a viable excuse in 1400 but this is the modern world we live in .... Surely they cannot keep using that old hackneyed phrase !!
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Tue Jul 07 2015 12:18pm |
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