Advice please?

[pat-t2phy]

Last night my clio was damaged by hail stones the size of golf balls, roof and bonnet mainly. Spoke to a bodyshop and was told Insurance would write it off. Spoke to insurance and was told they would not cover it as it was "act of god". But could put a "faults claim" in. I have protected no claims and been with Insurer for many years. Should I claim and get the car cat 'd or 'c wrote off and get lump sum or not bother. Really gutted about it as it's a mess. Any one else been through same thing? Thanks

 

[Tommo.]

I would of thought it could be repaired using paintless dent removal (PDR) techniques.

I'm sure somebody local to you will pop by with a recommendation. Hope you get it sorted mate :up:

 

[Daniel]

A good dent guy and about £250 would cover it.

 

[pat-t2phy]

The body shop said try a dent guy but tbh it looks like Michael flatley has been doin river dance on my roof. I'm jus relaying what body shop said about it being write off because of the damage to roof. Got a few dent guys to ring tomorrow and see what they say.

 

[Addicted]

Get some pics up!

 

[pat-t2phy]

Get some pics up! :smile:

Will do tomorrow when it dries out. The water is filling the dents

 

[imprezaworks]

Hail stones? You sure it wasn't a local trying out some new dance moves?

 

[pat-t2phy]

Hail stones? You sure it wasn't a local trying out some new dance moves?

A wish. They bigger than golf balls n coming down about 100mph. Quite a bit a damage done up here with them.

 

[iimushroomzii]

They must have been massive hailstones to cause that kind of damage.

 

[imprezaworks]

Where you based, I assume Scotland or alike?

 

[Daniel]

My mate (used to own a body shop!!) bought a written off ford SMax. Car was unregistered and brand new. It was at the docks when a huge hail storm battered the roof, bonnet and tops of the doors. And the top of the tailgate.
He paid something stupid like £10k for it.
Ford offloaded something like 30 of them via online auction.

He called his dent guy in and over a month, and £500, he'd come and spend an hour every other evening de-denting it.
He registered it with the DVLA and sold it for £19500 to a ford main dealer. Who then retailed it for £23,995.

 

[pat-t2phy]

In durham mate. I have never seen hail stones as big in my life and they were coming Down at some speed. Reported that some windows had been smashed with them.

 

[imprezaworks]

Jeez, very bad and very unlucky mate. Hope you sort it

 

[pat-t2phy]

Cheers. I'll buy a bonnet n get it painted but the roof is quite bad. Wounded isn't the word.

 

[pat-t2phy]

 

[pat-t2phy]

A picture of hailstones that came down last night. Taken from friend fb page.

 

[imprezaworks]

Ah that would do it

 

[Addicted]

Ouch!

Hottest day of the year by far, and you get hailstones. LOL!

(We didn't have any rain here yesterday, some today).

 

[LeeRS]

Wasn't it the hottest day in 10 years yesterday???
Wtf did hailstones even think of making an appearance?

 

[pat-t2phy]

The thunderstorms came around teatime. Went away and they came back at 10 last nite with th hail stones. It was still thundering and lightning at 1 this morning. The gods put on a good show though.

 

[dangerous dave]

say kids did it...

Ok, it's too late, but next time, say kids did it.

 

[pat-t2phy]

Haha I know I wasn't thinking when rang insurance.

 

[LeeRS]

I take it all the cars in your street have suffered similar damage?
If so, still say kids did it.

 

[dangerous dave]

I drive it for 6 months if I had too.. You've paid you insurance, you should be covered..

Bash for cash I hate, but i couldn't hate anyone for being cheeky in this case.. It's fair..

 

[pat-t2phy]

Yeah there's quite bit of damage done. Body shop said it was the worst they had seen all day. Our caddy van has couple of dings but nothing like the clio.

 

[pat-t2phy]

I drive it for 6 months if I had too.. You've paid you insurance, you should be covered..

Bash for cash I hate, but i couldn't hate anyone for being cheeky in this case.. It's fair..

like your thinking