Extensive hail damage

[Frankenstrat]

I was *driving* home along the Kwinana Freeway when the hail started coming down at around 4:15pm yesterday. Every overpass I crawled past was fully occupied on both hard shoulders with at least a dozen vehicles, possibly more. The hailstones *I* encountered were quite small, not much larger than an M&M I would guess. The noise though was quite alarming, but I don't appear to have suffered any structural damage to the car.

Crossing Mount Henry Bridge was a wild experience, I couldn't see anything other than the cars around me and it was as if somebody was shaking the bridge quite vigorously. A soggy motorcyclist rode past very slowly, he had both feet out to act as stabilisers so he wouldn't fall over due to the buffeting of the wind.

I feel very sorry for those of you who have suffered hail damage to your cars, my pergola at home had a couple of acrylic panels smashed and my back yard fence had blown over. That's fairly trivial compared with Flighter and NicandLance's misfortune.

[gareth_oau]

they reported 6mm hailstones in melville yesterday.

I understand Audi Perth looks like a belfast war scene!!

I managed to get both my cars into the garage, but we only got rain so no problems

[gareth_oau]

really dermot?

my dad was offerered a management job at Rolls Royce Belfast in 1971.

he decided to move to Perth instead, which maaaay, in hindsight, have proven to be a reasonable decision

[moniker]

they reported 6mm hailstones in melville yesterday.

I understand Audi Perth looks like a belfast war scene!!

I managed to get both my cars into the garage, but we only got rain so no problems

6mm, I'm sure you mean 6 cm!

Reports from the car-yard areas of Osborne Park are not good with severe damage to many new cars.
I'm just lucky my brand new Golf was tucked away under cover yesterday and the other car - a '02 Mazda Tribute copped all the dents

I was parked in Osborne Park - we got golf-ball sized hail there...

[R34]

I think I could get a good deal on the A5 Sportback I test drove


What a shame

[Frankenstrat]

Oh, and on a side note, I just wanted to add that the Rain Sensing Wiper function worked spectacularly well last night. From the first heavy >splat< on the windscreen they rose to the task.

[gareth_oau]

6mm, I'm sure you mean 6 cm!

hmm, well, yes, 6mm is hardly worth mentioning even in THIS forum LOL

[Coaster]

Luckily I don't drive my Golf to work in Osborne Park. 100+ cars in the office car park were dented all over. A colleagues sun roof shattered and water got inside, another colleagues car broke down in a deep puddle, water filling the foot wells. There are a lot of car dealers in Osborne Park; VW, Audi, Mazda, Subaru, Holden, Toyota, Peugeot, Citreon, Range Rover, all the Italian brands. Must have cost a fortune.

The hail at my office wasn't round, it looked like chunks of ice hacked off a big block! Never seen anything like it. And part of the sky at about 5pm was a strange dark pastel green colour.

It must have been damn scary driving along the freeway when these lumps of ice started cracking peoples windscreens.

[hoi polloi]

The hail at my office wasn't round, it looked like chunks of ice hacked off a big block!

Yeah.. You'll find it's a lot of smaller hailstones frozen together into an irregular mass - saw the same thing in '99...

- Anthony.

[emuexport]

Just put down a deposit on a TSI 118 DSG the other day at VW OP.

As considerable damage from the hail storm was done in the Osborne Park area and lots of cars at dealerships are damaged I received an e-mail this morning which told me it will be two weeks till delivery now and that I will be told what the verdict is when they know.

Now I'm understanding enough to realise they are busy but obviously the car was damaged otherwise I wouldnt receive jack!

Whats the deal if it is damaged? Do they just repair it and say here you go heres your new car? Which isn't really new anymore as it's just been golf-balled.

Obviously jumping to conclusions but I am a bit of a pessimist!

Anyone got an idea on what the possible outcome/approach is going to be?

I had a look and didn't see this anywhere else which surprises me especially after the damage over east.

Cheers,
emu