Crazy hail storm in Calgary

[zamler]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

Anyone else remember the September 7, 1991 hail storm? When that storm came in, it was literally as black as night.

I remember that like it was yesterday. The area around my house was severely flooded, I couldn't actually drive home. I parked a couple of blocks away, and SWAM home. My house was close to being flooded, the water was right up near the front step. I could have easily canoed down the crescent.

I had two cars damaged today, one is a classic that cannot be replaced. It's a total loss I think, severe dents everywhere. It has a car cover but it makes no difference. Here's the pics of my one car, a 93 Camry. I spent a long time looking for one of these, finally found the one I wanted with a mint condition body. Not anymore, dents everywhere. It did pretty well compared to the cars on my street, some of them the dents are 3 times the size. Either way, given the age of the car it's likely a total loss.

My rain gutters are beat up, some holes in my siding, garage roof doesn't look too good. My garden is a complete loss. Argh, not a good day.

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[Sly]

SWEET! Today's a good day to make a good excuse for denting a car on accident in the parking lot.

[HotHotHeat]

How do insurance companies feel about switching the color of your car when your entire body is getting replaced?

[zamler]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

How do insurance companies feel about switching the color of your car when your entire body is getting replaced?

Insurance companies don't "feel" anything. They are soulless monsters that will do whatever it takes to spend as little as possible.

Or to put it another way, you'll get what you get. If you can change the vehicle colour from the settlement, your choice.

[Dan02]

more hail damage photos.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/sto...r-tornado.html

[Ducay]

Anyone know much do hail dings usually cost to get taken out?

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

How do insurance companies feel about switching the color of your car when your entire body is getting replaced?

Switching colours is much more expensive than just replacing panels and respraying areas. You would have to pay out of pocket for things like door jams, around the trunk, under the hood. That is unless you want your car to look like crap with two different colours.

[zamler]

So, here are my peas. Think they'll recover?

[pylon]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

How do insurance companies feel about switching the color of your car when your entire body is getting replaced?

They wouldn't do it, as it probably costs 2 times more to do it. You literally have to remove all of the interior door panels, refinish the underside of the hood, trunk, door jambs, inside the sunroof track.....everything. If you need your hood refinished for hail damage, they are not going to paint the underside, understandibly so. And they do not replace "the entire body" the protocal now is to have a panitless dent technician get the majority of the stuff out that he can, and then refinish the panels that can't be restored.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Anyone know much do hail dings usually cost to get taken out?

I depends on how bad the dings are. If they are shallow, it's possible to get them out without any body work at all. I watched an old pro do it, he bounced a soft hammer off the roof at different angles, it sends waves through the metal and straightens out the dent. The work he did was excellent, after he was done it was impossible to tell where the dents were. If the metal is stretched, it will have to be pulled out, filled, sanded and painted. Depending on the the number of dents, it could get very very costly.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Anyone know much do hail dings usually cost to get taken out?

Call Ernie at DNT.

And do it quick, as he will be booked solid for a couple months if you don't get in soon.

He is probably the best guy in town for paintless dent removal.

DNT
426 Memorial Drive Northwest
Calgary, AB T2E4Y7
(403) 262-9660

If you guys have the option to use this type of service, absolutely do it.

A) It is a 1/3 of the price.

B) If done correctly, it is virtually undectable that repairs have been done. Anyone that knows anything about cars, can tell if repainting has been done, no matter how good of a body shop you use.

There are a few other companies that provide paintless dent repair, but there is a reason half the car dealers in the city use Ernie / DNT.

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by zamler

So, here are my peas. Think they'll recover?

Looks like a pea graveyard

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by zamler

I depends on how bad the dings are. If they are shallow, it's possible to get them out without any body work at all. I watched an old pro do it, he bounced a soft hammer off the roof at different angles, it sends waves through the metal and straightens out the dent. The work he did was excellent, after he was done it was impossible to tell where the dents were. If the metal is stretched, it will have to be pulled out, filled, sanded and painted. Depending on the the number of dents, it could get very very costly.

My wife's vehicle has dents everywhere. Not sure how they will be able to remove all the dents in the A and C pillars which are beat up everywhere.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Raekwon

Looks like a pea graveyard

I ate some of the pods on the ground.

[photon]

Originally Posted by zamler

I ate some of the pods on the ground.

Zompeas?

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

My wife's vehicle has dents everywhere. Not sure how they will be able to remove all the dents in the A and C pillars which are beat up everywhere.

That sucks. Those have to be filled, there is not enough metal to work with to pull them out. Plus the steel there is fairly rigid.

Hail damage on cars is really harsh, especially if there are a lot of dents. So much labour involved to fix them all, plus repaint large portions or even the entire car.

[pylon]

Getting a lot of reports in from other car dealers. Sounds like Stadium Nissan got mangled. We are 3 blocks from the University, and we have vitually no damage on anything. Looks like we dodged a big time bullet by inches here.

[Bertuzzied]

So in the SW there was no hail at all? Just talking with my inlaws and they didn't get anything in Signal Hill.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by pylon

Getting a lot of reports in from other car dealers. Sounds like Stadium Nissan got mangled. We are 3 blocks from the University, and we have vitually no damage on anything. Looks like we dodged a big time bullet by inches here.

Hail damage sale! My first new car was a 98 hail damaged Civic from Crowfoot Honda. Got like $5k off back then.

[MJM]

There's so many dents on my car, I would assume they will just replace the roof, hood, and trunk rather than manually removing 300 dents (likely more cost effective).