Whats up everyone. Not the thread I was hoping to make in the gallery but, I guess thats how things go.

On 3/2, I had a work meeting with my new boss. Needless to say it was cut short, with the entire staff and the rest of the customers at panera bread craming into their freezers as a nasty storm rolled through. Many tornado's where spawned from this storm around all of TN and AL, heard many reports of some area's getting hail up to 3"!! Crazy stuff, I am ok and very thankful. I think more so where we were it was straight line winds, but regardless we got a ton of hail!!

Took it to the estimator yesterday and it came out to around $3500. Lots of PDR but the hood and hardtop he said would be conventional repairs and repaint. I hope they just repaint the fenders too!!

Enjoy/join me in crying over the pics! Only panels not posted are the driver door and driver rear fender. The pictures didn't come out at all, but there is alot of spots on those area's too!!

What my car used to look like


What the parking lot and my boss's 7 serie BMW looked like when we got out of the freezer!! Yes, He has a lot of hail damage as well!


My poor Hardtop!!










Hood




Fender


Trunk


Thanks for looking!

 

Man that sucks! Hope everything gets fixed and looks like it did before.

 

wow that freaking sucks! Id mark every single dent with painters tape and make sure they remove every single one.

 

I am trying to decide on the best way to mark each one as I want a count of how many dents there are!

But, Before I take the car in, I do want to mark each one and take photo's of each panel with the markers on there.

 

Ouch Good luck with the repairs.

 

OUCH! so sorry for you; and I thought sand storms out of Saudi Arabia hurt my paint, thats terrible!

what about using white board marker? should wipe right off when the damage is fixed?

looking forward to seeing her back to how you had it.

 

Ouch, sucks man.

 

I think I would cry

 

Wax/Grease Pencil or whatever it is called would be what I would do. To be honest you're most likely going to either end up with a totaled car or all new/reworked body panels. That is a ton of hail damage and PDR is going to be incredibly expensive and it's never going to be 100% what it was.

Good luck on your journey to having it all repaired.

Edit: I just read your entire post. >_> $3,500 is a low ball from the insurance adjustor. You should bring up the fact that even with PDR the damage will never be truly gone. If you know what you're looking for there are still distortions in the metal. I would push hard for new body panels + a repaint if at all possible.

 

Agreed -- Huge lowball from the insurance adjuster. Same thing happened to my previous hardtop S, and I eventually got $7000.

The hood and hardtop are aluminum, so they are likely going to have to replace them. My body shop said the hardtop was un-workable due to the nature of aluminum, and I'll be damned if they were going to ruin it with fillers.

The body shop and I went through hell to get the insurance co to cooperate, and eventually they repaired the hardtop with an entirely new skin. The repair of the hardtop alone was $3500, which really frustrated me because I could have found a used one for $2700 and pocketed the rest (plus had an additional hail-damaged hardtop for a spare or to sell)

Best of luck!