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Well my friends, the time has come, Mother Nature has finally thrown her wrath upon my car.

We got tennis ball sized hail at the largest and golfball sized hail at the smallest two weeks ago.

I sustained plenty of damage. Hood is hosed, top is hosed, the fender is chipped/dinged, and the trunk lid is pretty bad

The car has to be repainted due to the chip in the fender and the hood.

From what the insurance is stating is that since they have assessed $5700 damage (HAIL????!!!) and the resale value of my car is 5900, they are going to total it out.

Car runs absolutely like a top, has 85K miles on it, and everything inside works, except the heated driver's seat.

The only drawback for them is when I take my system out, there will be nothing but a bunch of holes in the car. Take that Insurance commie bastages!

Needless to say, this may be a blessing in disguise. I am going to be shopping for a smaller car, that gets better gas mileage and is more hospitable for a system. My only regret is that I have over $500 worth of Second Skin dampner throughout the car and it was poopydust to install...not looking forward to buying more and installing it again.

I still can't believe that this is for hail damage. I would think you just total a car that cannot be driven again, not for having multiple dings in it. I am just sick over this.

--Joe

wow Joe sorry to hear about that... I can't imagine the amount of work you are going to have to do in order to pull all the wiring and components out.

Good for you bad for me. mine was just estimated at 1700 bucks and my car is worth 22,000 and i have a 500 dollar deductible stupid hail. we had lots of golfball sized hail went on for about 20 mins.

Wow man... That does suck. So whats the no about in the subject?

In Ohio when they total a car they are to take it as is. Like your not to pull your rims/tires/system out of it. Everyone does though... lol

system is out,

and the "no" in the subject was like saying "Hell No" yet I said "Hail No"...it is a tough thing for me to wake up in the morning.

sorry about that bro, wait...is that.....Taps I hear...maybe it is just in my head.


Sorry dude,

Tim

lol ok I didnt get that one :)

It kind of sucks to loose a car like that. I would ask for more because of the non removable mods.

Yeah, hail sucks. One of the trucks took a few good hits in 2005. We had a tornado or I should say three, within blocks of my house.

Here's a video of it on YouTube. Someone elses video. If you notice the tower in the video it's only 200 yards or so from my house. Big anus hail that day.

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weve got extrememly mild weather here in ky...no tornados, hurricanes, were not the epicenter of anything except pollen

smoker wrote:weve got extrememly mild weather here in ky...no tornados, hurricanes, were not the epicenter of anything except pollen

Flurries of extremely hot women though. They'll take out the house, car, everything you own. Quite devastating in fact. I hope you all have good insurance down there.