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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 12:30 AM
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Yeopp. About 5 dings on my hood, two on my driver side fender, one on my passenger side fender, 3 on my trunk, one or two on my driver side door, and thats all I noticed as of now.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 03:48 AM
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Yeah, I wasn't thrilled about seeing that last night. Some pieces were big, but most were relatively small. Guess that explains the "light" damage that you saw. It was nothing like the hail I had here in 2003 (plentiful and large).

My insurance company is already paying for the house damage that happened while I was at the race track in GA last month, so I'm covered. Luckily, since I bought the 2nd house, I no longer have any outdoor vehicles! Would be a bummer to have to repair those like I had to back in 2003.


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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 10:31 AM
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Anyone know a good place to take the car for repairs?
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 01:29 PM
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My dad was lucky last night! The storms woke me up at about 2:30 and I heard a rath of hail. I immediately beagn thinking about damages to the house and cars (hail sounded really hard). I mentally went through the garage and realized that my dad was at work with the Phaeton. Looked at my clock, 2:40am - supposed to get off at 2:30. Immediately called him to make sure he hadn't left. He works in a hospital where there are no windows (ER) and it is a distance from our house so he would have driven into it with a blindfold. He was just about to walk out the door. Close one!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Kschmied,Mar 13 2006, 01:31 PM
Anyone know a good place to take the car for repairs?
I've had good luck with Rick's Autobody the last few times. They are located off of 94 near o'Fallon Road.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 04:07 PM
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Spirit West on the 94 access road (just north of Pralle Lane) repaired my VW after the 2003 storm. They do great work and get all of my business.


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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 04:51 PM
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We had golf ball to ping pong size hail again at the house last night, but this time it only lasted 15 - 30 seconds, so if it did any damage to the house, it's hidden well within the damage done in February. Luckily I hadn't started any of the repairs yet.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 08:34 PM
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Thats sucks. Is the damage bad enough that you need new panels, or could you get away with paintless dent removal? Luckly my S was in the garage at my apartment all this weekend, but the ITR was outside. I don't think it hailed at my parents house, I really hope it doesn't since I don't get a garage spot even though my S is better than old man's
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by jlabeaume,Mar 13 2006, 09:34 PM
Thats sucks. Is the damage bad enough that you need new panels, or could you get away with paintless dent removal? Luckly my S was in the garage at my apartment all this weekend, but the ITR was outside. I don't think it hailed at my parents house, I really hope it doesn't since I don't get a garage spot even though my S is better than old man's
+1 for paintless dent removal... if that doesn't work i'd try maze autobody off of the service road... they fixed the s2000 when i wrecked it... did an amazing job.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by SpoonS2kMe,Mar 14 2006, 10:20 AM
+1 for paintless dent removal... if that doesn't work i'd try maze autobody off of the service road... they fixed the s2000 when i wrecked it... did an amazing job.
Have had work done at Maze before as well and was very impressed with the results.
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