Tha Original i30 Owners Club
GENERAL STUFF => GENERAL DISCUSSIONS => Random Chit Chat => Topic started by: LuciferDarklord on March 31, 2010, 01:47:36
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Seen this while walking from the train station in Leederville (Perth) - in the Aftermath of last week's storms. It's a government vehicle. The hail has done a good job on it! I dont like the 'golf ball' surface finish
(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv255/LuciferDarklord/31032010164.jpg)
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That's bad! Mine was hail damaged in Melbourne a few weeks ago and even though every panel has dents you probably could miss it with a casual glance.
Nothing like that. :'(
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:eek: :eek: :eek:
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Wow! That's horrible :rolleyes:
Nice avatar, btw
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:eek: :eek: :'( :evil:
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thats amazing. :eek: looks like the moon.
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looks like the moon.
Funny, but true :eek:
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That's the worst one i've seen (haven't seen photos yet of the Daughter's barina which was written off by the Hail)
Guess the storm was good for Crash Repairers and New car sales (replacements)
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There are several government plated i30's that were in the same car park in West Perth as my 180SX. Every car that was in the car park at the time look like that, unfortunately.
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Hi Oggie, so your 180sx would presumeably be the same.. Being that it wasn't insured what do you think you will do with it???
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:rolleyes:
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I didnt notice until I was walking the other direction heading home tonight, the windscreen is annihilated.
(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv255/LuciferDarklord/31032010165.jpg)
Wow! That's horrible :rolleyes:
Nice avatar, btw
Thanks Accim, Data - and TNG are a personal favourite of mine, must be my inner geek.
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Must be a write off :eek:
Data seems to be pi**ed off as well :lol: Must have just checked his insurance terms :lol:
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Must be a write off :eek:
Data seems to be pi**ed off as well :lol: Must have just checked his insurance terms :lol:
Haha - yeah and then his terminal BSOD to make matters worse!
It must be a write off, if you look closely in the last pic the doors are all dented too on the passenger side. Problem is some dodgy brother will pick these cars up at auction, fill them full of bog and cheap paint and flog them off to unsuspecting buyers.
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Surely the hail must damage all makes of cars :question:
I like this one HERE (http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_4812162_remove-hail-damage-cars.html) Who are they kidding :lol:
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Surely the hail must damage all makes of cars :question:
I like this one HERE (http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_4812162_remove-hail-damage-cars.html) Who are they kidding :lol:
I think there are ways (not sure if those ways would work though...)
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Hi Oggie, so your 180sx would presumeably be the same.. Being that it wasn't insured what do you think you will do with it???
The 180SX wasn't the prettiest car in the car park before (a hit and run driver damaged the back end of the car a couple of months back), but it runs fine and the hail damage is just cosmetic. It's still fun to drive. I'll probably keep it until it drops, then scrap it.
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That's not so bad then oggie (sorry 4 being a sticky beek...)
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If thats a government vehicle I guess the taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill to fix it :P
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we drop off our car to be repaired on mon just got a phone call it is up to 3 weeks wait on parts :evil:
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we drop off our car to be repaired on mon just got a phone call it is up to 3 weeks wait on parts :evil:
If it's still ok to drive can you tell them to let you know when the parts are in and then you will drop it off?
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But what's interesting to me, is that the front lights are still ok from this point of view..? Strong plastic it must be?? At least the upper part of the light, "should" (could) be broken, don't you think?
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But what's interesting to me, is that the front lights are still ok from this point of view..? Strong plastic it must be?? At least the upper part of the light, "should" (could) be broken, don't you think?
I think they are polycarbonate - extremely strong plastic!
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is this car repairable?
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is this car repairable?
I guess anything is repairable, just depends on when the insurance company decides its too expensive, which I think in this case it would be. The only panel i could see that didnt have damage was the tailgate.
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It has now been two weeks I think since the hail storm .. The Daughters Insurance company (A.A.M.I.)were pretty quick to tell her they were going to "write her car off" but after another week she still doesn't know how much she will get for it. Apparently another of her friends had paid extra for a hire car option in the event of an accident and now they are saying there are none available (they will want to be refunding the extra premium if it was my insurance.. :rolleyes:)
My Daughter is replacing her Barina GSI with a 2006 SS Commodore ute "Thunder Model" with a 6 litre V8 :eek:- I think her Fiance' might also have had some influence :rolleyes: ( I would like one too but the fuel economy :'()
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It has now been two weeks I think since the hail storm .. The Daughters Insurance company (A.A.M.I.)were pretty quick to tell her they were going to "write her car off" but after another week she still doesn't know how much she will get for it. Apparently another of her friends had paid extra for a hire car option in the event of an accident and now they are saying there are none available (they will want to be refunding the extra premium if it was my insurance.. :rolleyes:)
My Daughter is replacing her Barina GSI with a 2006 SS Commodore ute "Thunder Model" with a 6 litre V8 :eek:- I think her Fiance' might also have had some influence :rolleyes: ( I would like one too but the fuel economy :'()
They both have doors and both are Holdens. Are there any other similarities? Definite male influence there :D :D :D
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They both have doors and both are Holdens. Are there any other similarities? Definite male influence there :D :D :D
Two or perhaps three male influences I think.. Her dad is a bit of a car nut, 25+ cars and thinking about another :-[ (so it's in her genes) then her first serious boyfriend was a Commodore tragic and her current fella works at Supercheap.. so I guess it was just a matter of time...
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we drop off our car to be repaired on mon just got a phone call it is up to 3 weeks wait on parts :evil:
If it's still ok to drive can you tell them to let you know when the parts are in and then you will drop it off?
yes we can drive the car but it is 50 km away and my wife stills has no licences so we will just leave it there
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I wonder how many poor suckers are going to buy a heavily discounted, hail damaged car in the "hail sales", only to find out later that it has been listed on the written-off vehicles register. A statutory write-off cannot be registered in WA - it is only suitable for parts. Of course there are backyarders who find ways around this.
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I work right down the road from ManheimFowles www.manheimfowles.com.au/cms/locations/perth.phtml (http://www.manheimfowles.com.au/cms/locations/perth.phtml) and it's getting nice and full with all things dented....
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Just got my i30 back from "United Hail Repairs" and the same as our Getz, done a few weeks ago, it's perfect.
They perform miracles. All the dints (hundreds, probably thousands) with every panel affected, just gone without a trace. You might think that's to be expected and yes it is but they did it all without retouching or respraying anything. :cool:
They use a combination of machine pressing and hand tapping each individual dint in what must be truly painstaking work.
Each car took 10 working days to complete. They need to strip the car to get access to the inside of each panel, tap, tap, tap then put all back together.
I'm not easily impressed... but wow. No overspray, no mismatched colour, just my paintwork back exactly as it was complete with original stone chips. :'(
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Good to hear the repairs went well for you.
Actually the hailstorm for me was a *godsend. I had a commodore that wasn't worthy of a trade-in, nor was it worthy of making it roadworthy to sell privately either. I was gonna drive it until it drove no more.
But because of the storm the car was written off and I got more than expected allowing me to get another car.
That's when I started taking real notice of all the different cars on the road........well the rest is history.
*This is no disrespect to those who lost their pride'n'joy or other personal possessions (even personal injury) from the hailstorm.
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its great to hear your cars are fixed pip. :mrgreen: i had a look at the cars in that auction, i found 11 hatches and a cw. some of them look very unhappy. :'( :eek:
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just my paintwork back exactly as it was complete with original stone chips. :'(
I know insurance cover is to return the insured back to a position it was at before the incident took place but to not even touch these up .............. What a bummer :exclaim:
ps great to hear you are pleased with the repair
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damn shame... :\