Thread: hail damage

Originally Posted by hans

down here in sunny vic christmas day got caught in that really bad hail storm in the defender , hail and aluminium doesn,t mix
bit of damage to passenger side doors and front fender and off course the roof.
see what the insurance company says next week any body else been caught ??

Yes have been caught in a previous storm where the hail was like cricket balls. Got about a dozen big dints most noticeable on the roof if you get above the line of the roof. I left them for character marks.

Yeah I got caught. Me fender looks like it has celulite. Lots of dimples. It's getting assesed tomorrow and I'm terrified, I don't really know what market value is on a 2001 with high km's, but I'm willing to bet my left one that it'll be about half what it'll cost me to actually replace it.

It comes from the sky or shopping centre car parks. Sorry to hear about it though it's something we all dread.

Left the D2a at home and took the 2011 Outback over to the north side. Got wacked in Watsonia Road. Will see AAMI on the 16th!

Yeah I got caught. Me fender looks like it has celulite. Lots of dimples. It's getting assesed tomorrow and I'm terrified, I don't really know what market value is on a 2001 with high km's, but I'm willing to bet my left one that it'll be about half what it'll cost me to actually replace it.

Funnily enough, market value is roughly what it would cost to replace for a similar vehicle.

When my D1 was written off, market value was what the insurance company determined it to be by seeing what was available on the net and car yards. They spat out a figure about 10% over what I thought was going to be fair value. If you don't like what they say, ask them to justify their figure? Most insurance companies are actually full of relatively decent human beings I've found.

yeah if they under-value it you can give them examples of what it would cost to replace the car eg. ads of other defenders for sale. (of coarse depending on what kind of insurance you have)

hope all goes well for you and i'm sure it will

will let you all know when the insurance company has a look at hopefully next week dont really want another one quite attached to this one

Originally Posted by hans

down here in sunny vic christmas day got caught in that really bad hail storm in the defender , hail and aluminium doesn,t mix
bit of damage to passenger side doors and front fender and off course the roof.
see what the insurance company says next week any body else been caught ??

Hail and Defender grade aluminium don't mix. None of the old Series LandRovers in my old bone yard show signs of hail damage despite them enduring a few golfball size hailstorms in their up to 50 year lifespans, including the one on Christmas day.Same with older 1970s and earlier cars. they didn't get dimples after heavy hail like modern vehicles do.
bill.