Hail storm damage

[gerhard]

Just make sure that they can't say "oh sorry sir, that's a new damage".

Yes, for sure on that point.

Hail damage is apparently easy for them to spot vs say damage from a stone or car park dent.

As a matter of interest, the assessors were right on the ball for damage patterns relative to vehicle location. They hadn't repaired a single Rowville/Lysterfield vehicle, whereas my cars were in North Dandenong and Wheelers Hill.

Dandenong had endless marble sized hailstones with the odd one a bit bigger, Wheelers Hill had bigger stones but not so many, resulting in fewer but bigger dents.

Rowville/Lysterfield had monsters, many with spikes, looking like the ball of a mace.

[K1W1]

I've just been told this morning that one of the large European insurance companies has flown in several specialist hail damage repair crews from Europe to get through the work load.

[PROJET - L]

My wife was driving the Octavia during the storm.
A few streets away from home.
She rang me from the car and I could barely hear her over the sound of hailstones hitting the roof.

My heart sank...

A few days later our next door neighbour was lamenting about the dints on their newish Mazda CX9.
I then remembered that the Skoda had not one dint from hailstones at all!

Lucky or Tough you be the judge.

[K1W1]

Lucky

My vote.
I discovered four hail dents in my bonnet last night - and the car was under a carport!