Bloody Hailstones!

[RaZz0R]

just went out to get some food - 5mins later.... *Bang* on the rangie roof!!!

The size was huge - never seen hail so big before - fangged the rangie round the back of the shops & parked close to the building - was awesome! :)

Good rain as well :) just thought I'd share :)

[JDNSW]

Call from my son in Caroline Springs about an hour ago -

"There's been this tremendous hailstorm and the gutters and the roof gully are filled with hailstones and the roof is leaking!"

Not sure what I was supposed to do 1,000km away! Both his cars were under cover, although a bit wet underfoot - the hail banked up and made a dam so the water ran under the doors.

John

[DeeJay]

My wife was in the city & left her Disco out in the street. I was expecting the storm but not hailstones the size of 20c coins +.
By the time I found her keys & got it in the carport I was drenched. Jeez those hailstones hurt when they hit your bald patch !!:p

Pics from the age site

http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/victoria/wild-weather-hits-melbourne/20100306-pph5.html

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

We just got hit by golf ball size hailstones here in the Dandenong Ranges.
The wife's Falcon wagon his peppered with dents in the roof and bonnet, The disco as a few also.
Now has any one had these type of dents repaired successfully.
Seems it'll cost us out basic excess of around $500 for each vehicle, so I don't know how much the repair bill is yet.
But the Falcon has an agreed value of only $3750, and the Disco 1996 V8 is market value, so probably very little value knowing the insurance

[feral]

Yep.

Disco II...smashed windscreen, smashed scupper plate?? numerous dents in bonnet, roof ect. She's stuffed.

House....holes peppered through lazerlite pergola roof. Numerous tree branches down.

You just don't know how I feel....

:twisted:

[OrangeZXr10R]

MY Triton is now sporting a nice ding in a spot that's gonna be hard to remove in the roof :mad:

Got home to check out the house and Defender - No Damage there :D

[RaZz0R]

yeah while the rangie copped a few to the roof I can't see any damage - I thought the roof racks might have helped there as I have a wire mesh with them as well :D

[MacMan]

Friends in Lysterfield have had a Corolla and 100 Series cruiser trashed and windows on the house broken. We got off light with some water back washing over the the fascias and coming inside via the window frames.

[SPROVER]

Yeah my partners car now has a few dents in the roof,bonnet and side panels.:( Shes not to happy.They were the size of golf balls here.I took some pics of them.I will try to post them up later.

[amtravic1]

Spent the last few hours boarding up windows at my mates house in Lysterfield. They copped it much worse than we did in Bayswater. My Rangie has a few addition dents in the roof.
My mates house has 7 broken windows, his 2 month old Rangie Sport is a write off as his Mercedes van and his mother in laws rav 4.

Even the steel meshed security door on the house has holes torn through it.

[MacMan]

Sounds like a similar story to our friends!

[Gillie]

Father inlaw got a work car repaired up here from hail damage. He got them all out and no painting necessary and a A1 job, you would never know. I don't know what the cost was though.

[Milkman Dan]

Down in South Vic, nothing like that just a nice bit of rain.

[Sprint]

just remember, usually a hail claim = no further insurance

[Sprint]

MY Triton is now sporting a nice ding in a spot that's gonna be hard to remove in the roof :mad:

Got home to check out the house and Defender - No Damage there :D

typical isnt it, the car where the dents wouldnt be noticed is untouched!

[Blknight.aus]

IVe seen hail dents sucked out with a toilet plunger before today....

clean the panel, wipe it dry then give it a thin wipe of oil and have at it.

when your done rewash the panel.

[robzilla]

Well i feel like ****!
Mum's car is the only one we really care about and it always gets the spare garage spot. Except i put the Land Rover in last night to do the lift, leaving hers outside.
It's now sporting a few little dings in the bonnet/roof/boot..bugger!

Sounding like a firing range under the Pergola (laserlite) roof!

[korg20000bc]

I had a mate who called cellulite on girl's thighs "hail damage".

I always think about that when I see cars that have copped it.

[p38arover]

just remember, usually a hail claim = no further insurance

Yep, I was told that by AAMI after one of mine had dents from hail. I didn't get them repaired.

[feral]

So what are we saying here lads ? :confused:

Not only do I have panel damage, the windscreen is shattered and bottom plate that covers the wiper motor area(scupper plate?) is smashed as well.

So I'm up for a screen & scupper plate atleast and yet I am unable to claim any of it on insurance.

This is going to get very messy.

[SPROVER]

After waiting for over an hour on the phone yesterday my partner got through to the RACV who were pretty helpful.All she has to do is take it to an RACV repairer and they will do the job.They also give you a taxi voucher to get home and back to the repairer.And the main thing is she wont lose her rating one.But $500 excess claim:(

[solmanic]

A-hem! I am reading a lot of words in this thread, but no pictures...
:rulez:

[slug_burner]

No pictures. I got a phone call from the workshop where my defender was in for some work. I now have a hail damaged defender:(

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

A-hem! I am reading a lot of words in this thread, but no pictures...
:rulez:
how can we take pics, Our camera lenses were smashed by hail stones:p

[Blknight.aus]

No pictures. I got a phone call from the workshop where my defender was in for some work. I now have a hail damaged defender:(

wonder how you'll go claiming against the workshop for not adequately garaging the car.

[VladTepes]

as good a place as any..

YouTube- Things You Wouldn't Hear from a Weather Forecaster - Mock the Week - BBC Two

[Hall]

My old 4wd truck is now sporting a broken windscreen.Considering that the windscreen on the truck is near vertical it was a dam good hit.Also my sons two ute`s have that golf ball texture now.My land rover? has a few dents in the roof,but some could have been there before.Was lucky though as we have in our roof two sky lights which are the old fibre glass sheeting and not a mark.
Cheers Hall

[Vern]

Went to a house in Traralgon today to try get the power back on for the insurance company after lightning hit it. Not only was the whole house full of water but lightning hit the back corner of the house and blew a heap of tiles off and opened the roof up (owners were standing in that room at the time:eek:)
But that wasn't the amazing bit. When the lightning hit the BACK corner of the house it blew the carport in the FRONT corner (timber, made from 240x45 pine and 100x100 posts) up and over the house, cleared the pool, cleared the back fence and landed in a pile in the footy oval behind it:eek::eek:.
When i got there i had no idea there was even a carport there in the firstplace

[robzilla]

Was interested today driving around and spotting all the cars that had been hit. Had to feel sorry for a bloke in a commodore though. Brand new GTS, nice and loud, clearly his pride and joy. absolutely peppered with dints. Roof, bonnet, boot even the front guards, A/B/C Pillars, both drivers side doors (that's the side we could see) etc...

Haven't heard any reports of injury which was lucky! looking at the pics and the damage caused to cars, you'd be in some serious trouble if one got you on the head!

These pics are from a Facebook group, so hopefully they'll work.

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[robzilla]

Some more from another Facebook group.

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Not sure where this sign is, but love the irony :D
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Awesome timing on this. Southern Cross Train Station, right as part of the roof collapsed, dropping a SHEDLOAD of water onto the platforms
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[Sleepy]

:eek2:
Glad mine were under cover.:angel:

[feral]

Some more from another Facebook group.
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs478.ash1/26199_105256279502885_100000555417322_137428_65693 80_n.jpg


:Rolling::Rolling::Rolling:

Righto...thats enough. There's always one clown who takes things a little too far :D

[George130]

Glad we didn't get any hail.

We did get the mother of railfall and a lightning strike close enough to shake the house silly.

Glad we have been redoing the deck! It still flooded but the water had receeded by this morning without using the flood pump!:D
I will have to dig up one of the drain points again as it is now encased in clay and mud:eek:

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

I went through Ferntree gully, I reckon there will be a lots of new Land cruisers and other toyos and and Nisans/ Hondas going cheap. The local Car yards look like a they copped a hiding. Now's the time to pen a windscreen business, the demand might outweigh the supply!

I copped damage to both cars, one broken front window, and my boat cover is shredded.
Lucky it wasn't a meteor shower!

[V8Ian]

It was reported that Ferntree Nissan suffered $10,000,000 damage! :o

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

It was reported that Ferntree Nissan suffered $10,000,000 damage! :o
Are that claiming retail price loss or actual cost?

[V8Ian]

Are that claiming retail price loss or actual cost?
Not sure, but they suffered considerable structural damage too.

[DeeJay]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/03/1176.jpg

Look at the water flowing back into the underground toilets outside the GPO !! Talk about flushing the toilet !!:eek:

[Hymie]

It was reported that Ferntree Nissan suffered $10,000,000 damage! :o


Oi Vay Moishe, how do you start a hailstorm?

[Tombie]

Damn! Havent seen a storm like that here since 1985.

Oh well, can just imagine the insurance premiums next year :(

[feral]

I went through Ferntree gully, I reckon there will be a lots of new Land cruisers and other toyos and and Nisans/ Hondas going cheap. The local Car yards look like a they copped a hiding. Now's the time to pen a windscreen business, the demand might outweigh the supply!

I copped damage to both cars, one broken front window, and my boat cover is shredded.
Lucky it wasn't a meteor shower!

Werner Toyota is a write off. Out of 250 odd cars, 180 have hail damage. Their new showroom has been damaged as well. Reported claim of $8 million but will be higher.

[crash]

I find the photo of the Commodore with the broken rear window interesting- it is not shattered and you can see where the hail has gone straight through the glass - how fast would they be going to do that.
I happened to be in Kew around 2:30pm on Saturday and copped a bit of hail and a down pour, then got to Greensborough where it was sunny until 3:30pm, when it started to rain. Decided to head home along the hume and at Wallan it started to hail, was driving about 70Km/hr, about 15 - 20 min later blue sky again, until Murchision where I again encountered hail. I pulled off to the side of the road where it was safe, as I could not see the road infront of me.
Shepparton copped it bad, trees down all over the place. Where I live just rain, did not know such a storm happened so close until I heard it on the news that night.

[Sleepy]

It was reported that Ferntree Nissan suffered $10,000,000 damage! :o

Geez they must have written off 100,000 Pulsars.:p

[Sleepy]

I find the photo of the Commodore with the broken rear window interesting- it is not shattered and you can see where the hail has gone straight through the glass - how fast would they be going to do that.

I reckon could be over 200mph. Just guessing but that is the terminal velocity of a falcon in a nose dive (The feathered variety:p). Haven't taken into account wind gusts that could have easily been 100knots in the downburst.

[feral]

Well, my damage bill is in....$8000 :(

Part replace, part Paintless Dent Removal, new screen & scuttle plate. Interesting to note that the new bonnet is $1500. Thats just for the part, no paint, no decals :eek: Surprising to note the windscreen is $185...cheap :D

As I said before...this is going to get messy. Running on payout figuire, 60 - 75% of that equals very close to write off territory.

The two governing factors are that the vehicle is in excellent condition for its age and a Td5.

There you go....another reason to have a Td5 :p

[Tombie]

There you go....another reason not to live in Melbourne :wasntme:

[JohnF]

just went out to get some food - 5mins later.... *Bang* on the rangie roof!!!

The size was huge - never seen hail so big before - fangged the rangie round the back of the shops & parked close to the building - was awesome! :)

Good rain as well :) just thought I'd share :)

Have a glass sunroof in the 1984 RRC we want to sell. Always wondered how that would go in hail.