Hail Damage

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Carpark at work...14:00 today...Canberra.. 20c piece sized hail..

Bonet has 10+ marks...One mark you can see withought looking...

The roof has three small marks.

No paint damage but you can see the dents if you look.

The Ute has 4200km on it..had it about two months !

My insurance excess is $450.

I was going to take the car to the ute show in Feb..but...

Any idea if its worth fixing? ..new bonet might be worth less than the insurance exess..

I'm drinking now and it might magicly fix it's self while I sleep.

I could live with the problem but I know it's there..

I guess I could wait until a really BIG hail storm and have it all fixed at once...

[Falchoon]

That sux bigtime. I doubt if a bonnet would cost less than $450 especially taking into account painting. Or you could maybe get one of those carbon fibre XR8 copy bonnets from New Gel in Fyshwick if you like that sort of thing.

[Cro]

As soon as I heard it coming down I ran out and chucked it in the garage. Too scared to look for any damage

[maximum_velocity]

of course its worth fixing mate. its your pride and joy driving around with dents in it just would look right. maybe on a Expensive Daewoo but certainly not a ford

[stickz]

Just had my hail damaged fixed last week by one of those Paintless Dint Removal blokes. Repaired bonnet, FRHS guard, roof and bootlid. Quote was about $1250 - boss paid the $350 excess. It's a top job - you would never know it had been damaged. The other good thing was he only needed the car for 2 days. Hope this gives you a bit of an idea!

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I'll check the price at Ford and new Gel..

Would I look like a wa*ker with an XR8 bonet????

[F6 UTE]

I'll check the price at Ford and new Gel..

Would I look like a wa*ker with an XR8 bonet????

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oh contrair.... xr8 bonnet is a horn bit of kit....

I wouls seriously get one put on mine when it comes.

[Benny]

Paintless dent removal is the way to go. I've had dents removed from a few of my cars and you wont even see they were there.

[XRBloke]

Just had my mums car fixed, roof, bonnet, boot etc for $1000 bucks. had 15 dints in total! Dint doctor did it, no paint needed and u would never tell.

[NYOPA]

Mine got hit in SYd about 4 weeks ago at the airport.......

I got about 70 marks all over the bonnet and roof... looks like someone took it out on the golf range and hit balls at it with a sand wedge for an hour.

$3000 worth of damage... they are fixing it with dentless paint repair apparently.

oooooooooooooooooooooo I feel like crying when I look at it.