Sad Hail Damaged Polo 6R GTi

[theburningone]

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[Declanny]

Man what a story good to hear your positive outcome.
Got through to the insurance company, there will be a mass assessment held at the show grounds in the new year, they are expecting hundreds of cars and they are getting every assessor they have back from and after holidays to do it.

Gambit, which insurance company are you with?

[Gambit]

Gambit, which insurance company are you with?

I am with AAMI. Does anyone know whether they are likely to write the car off, considering the damage to the roof and pillars which are all integrated to the chassis?

[Hail22]

I am with AAMI. Does anyone know whether they are likely to write the car off, considering the damage to the roof and pillars which are all integrated to the chassis?

The logical step is to write your car off, more then 60% of the bodywork is heavily/severely damaged.

If you remember back to your last hail storm the Toyota Dealership near the childrens hospital (not a local btw) lost 60% of its inventory due to bonnet, roof and panelwork damage. they were all written off by IAG as per the law stating that cars from NSW, Victoria, SA cannot be deemed repairable write offs in order to reduce the amount of rebirthing of cars (half cuts etc)

Mate they better write it off, because they sure as heck can't call it a repairable write off haha

[Gambit]

Yeah that's a good point forgot about the new law or legislation stipulating no more repairable write offs in Vic , fingers crossed .

[anthony]

As far as I know,only NSW dont have repairable write offs anymore,Vic still does,I go to the auctions often.

[Hail22]

As far as I know,only NSW dont have repairable write offs anymore,Vic still does,I go to the auctions often.

Hmmmm why did the Victorians send their cars up to QLD and NSW after those hail storms you had a few years back? if they were repairable write offs pickles down in Victoria would of sold them like hot cakes.

[SilverBug]

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Sorry to hear this news. My six month old Golf R has over 100 dents in similar to the one in the pic.....shattered !!!

Andrew

[MadWorm]

Sorry to see that SilverBug, I know how I'd feel if that happened to my R. I'm feeling your pain. Let us know what the insurance company does.

[anthony]

Hmmmm why did the Victorians send their cars up to QLD and NSW after those hail storms you had a few years back? if they were repairable write offs pickles down in Victoria would of sold them like hot cakes.

Last year,Pickles and Manheim Fowles sold thousands of hail damaged cars in Melbourne,to bargain seekers,as they sold at 40 percent of their normal value,and Vic roads said they did not need to even be repaired to have them re registered,as long as they were inspected for proof of identity...as structually,they were perfect as had not been involved in an accident.