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FOX33N
10-12-2007, 10:42 AM
Goodmorning Everyone,
Here are some photos of damage from the Hail storm in Rooty Hill!! My Car was under next doors shelter.. but unfortunatly the 3 other cars left out on our lawn were immedidate write off's & 1 of them is getting towed away today!!
Also they werent the size of a golf ball it, they were the size of baseballs..
During:
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/FOX33N/Picture033.jpg
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/FOX33N/Picture032.jpg
After:
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/FOX33N/Picture034.jpg
These are cars down the street.. the owners were on a shopping trip & came home, not knowing about the hail!!
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/FOX33N/Picture035.jpg
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/FOX33N/Picture036.jpg
All Skylights in houses Broke aswell!!
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z203/FOX33N/Picture037.jpg
Worst hail storm iv seen in a LOOONg Time!!
project.r.racing
10-12-2007, 11:23 AM
wow!!! i see all the dungers were left outside. thats alot of damage.
Rupewrecht
10-12-2007, 11:25 AM
Whoa :( Lucky your car was undercover!
Dayem, glad we haven't seen that sort of hail in Melb - those hailstones would have gone right thru the VW ragtop!
Mazda6ex
10-12-2007, 12:01 PM
Holy ****, looks like you were involved in a drive by, lol... glad your cars ok Cass, you didn't need another problem, especially that much damage
FOX33N
10-12-2007, 12:25 PM
Actually im slightly regretting my car being moved under shelter, cause it would have been a write off where i left it.. But hey nothing i can do now, just got to get the car into repairs again for the minor hail damage i did get!!
RedLineResident
10-12-2007, 12:33 PM
holly crap!!,
does insurance cover that?
that is dangerous...
FOX33N
10-12-2007, 12:34 PM
holly crap!!,
does insurance cover that?
that is dangerous...
Yea it does only Comprehensive thou.. 3rd party no!!
Also.. can you imagine If i still had my CF bonnet on & left that outside.. there would be nothing left of it!!
douwboy
10-12-2007, 01:56 PM
Well my poor lil mazda got owned by the storm back window three holes in it and shattered front window has cracks all through it and there are dents all over the roof,bonnet and drivers side of the car.No insurance as the car aint worth much the front and rear windscreens are costing $670 to get fixed one expensive Christmas present.
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s226/douwboy/CIMG2117.jpghttp://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s226/douwboy/CIMG2116.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s226/douwboy/CIMG2115.jpghttp://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s226/douwboy/CIMG2113.jpg
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Plutonus
10-12-2007, 02:08 PM
Holy crap that hail is massive! Kind of like what we had in October, only your hail stones are bigger.
http://plutonus.net/images/hail/hail3.jpg
wow... those are huge... :eek:
my car was parked outside in castle hill... the hailstones weren't that big... but they were almost the size of golf balls... enough make a mess of my car :( ... i did consider acting as a human shield over the roof of my car but then figured i'd prefer a few dents to a concussion if the hailstones got bigger :confused:
was with a mate in glenhaven after the storms... that area got hit pretty hard... alot of trees fell on houses and cars... it was pretty messed up... i've never seen anything like it... possibly the most ironic part was my mate's neighbour in glenhaven had a tree on his house but was still smiling coz he owns three panel-beating businesses in the north-west and western suburbs
the disappointing part was when i found out that the storm wasn't half as bad in carlingford as it was in castle hill :o
chicaboo
10-12-2007, 03:05 PM
It looks like window tinting saves you on other expenses when you get hit by hail. Having a mostly intact rear window helps keep the rain and glass out of the back of the car. :)
Gav.
FOX33N
10-12-2007, 03:05 PM
the disappointing part was when i found out that the storm wasn't half as bad in carlingford as it was in castle hill
yea After the hail stopped in Rooty Hill, I rang my mum to warn her.. but there was hardley anything in carlingford.. Very lucky!!
Just to let everyone kinda understand how hard they were hitting.. One hit the garage so hard. it went through a fibre wall into the garage, there is now a whole in the side of the garage!!
douwboy
10-12-2007, 03:42 PM
I was on my motorbike at the time out at hornsby,got rained on but no hail.My parents rang to see where i was and told me about the damage,so i came home to a damaged car.
ill post my pics tonight but i wrote what happened on ozmazda so have a read ......
http://www.ozmazda.com/board/index.php?showtopic=4757&st=0
sik astina
11-12-2007, 04:53 PM
Holy crap..... I was meant to go on a cruise that day to syd, lucky i didnt.. My mates candy red Lib got hailed on.
marcs_sp20
11-12-2007, 05:27 PM
Also.. can you imagine If i still had my CF bonnet on & left that outside.. there would be nothing left of it!!
Um no need to be nosey but why did u take it off?
DavoAust
11-12-2007, 05:54 PM
holy s**t thats crazy sized hail. lucky no one got seriously hurt, those big ones would kill you outright if it hit you in the head. how did that ute hold up? it must have gotten hammered
newman
11-12-2007, 07:48 PM
hail blows :(
Joczy
11-12-2007, 10:24 PM
Speaking of which... im on the phone to AAMI at the moment.. on hold.. hahah im getting use to this.
My car like FLip's was parked outside in Castle Hill. Lucky no windows broken but it looks like someone went town with golf balls on my bonnet, boot and roof *sigh*
skippy
14-12-2007, 04:04 PM
I got hailed on a few years ago, small little hail slight dents.
AAMI wanted two quotes or I could drop it to them and they fix it.
I went to about 10 places, 8 said they could fix it with paintless dent removal, 2 said respray.
So I got a reall purty car out of it.
FYI
Paintless would have cost about 5-700,
they paid $3500 for the respray.
Joczy
14-12-2007, 10:36 PM
hey skippy, yeh i remember reading bout that when it happened to you. Didnt u have some probs with the place that did it too? Yeh i gotta get some quote but im not even thinking bout it yet lol.
MrShadow
25-12-2007, 06:27 PM
I was lucky that day. We were in Sydney, and it passed just to the North of where we were. Heading home later that day and another storm hit the Central Coast (Wyong, where we live) with hail big enough to put some fair sized dents (no broken windows though) and we missed that by about 15 minutes.
My old Astina got every body panel and the windscreen damaged in the 2005 hail storm on the Central Coast. NRMA paid for the lot, and I got a full respray out of it too. I didn't have any troubles with them, they even answered the phone within a minute or two. It took them 4 weeks to do the job, but I was in the UK and Italy at the time so it didn't bother me. Sweet as.
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