wow, that's mental. we went up the gold coast on saturday night and it was a bit rainy but nothing like that

 

with a fairly new car with full comp insurance and hail damage, you usually have the option of just getting a new car. then they write the car off and you buy it back at a quarter of the price at pickles.com.au auction houses :D

I hope that applies to some of the $20K + paint jobs out there on the weekend!

 

Can you imagine how devasted you'd be....

if they were smart enough they would have packed up and got their cars undercover like matt and i did BEFORE the storm hit....not DURING.....its too late then.

i have always been weary of storms and the damage they can cause...sure i feel sorry for the people that get caught out in them.....especially if they have paintjobs that cost more than my whole car.

 

it all comes down to common sense.....find somewhere under shelter weather it be a tin awning or a shop front that has a roof over it......i would jump gutters to get to undercover parking if i knew there was hail coming.....you see my insurance doesnt cover thing like that cause its only 3rd party.....where as someone that has an $80,000 landcrusier will most likely have full comp...

 

hail is only really damaging when it is fairly big.....like the other day....small hail will dent but it has to be going at a fair rate of knots. as i was saying to matt before the storm hit.....i have never been caught in a hailstorm that i have had to get out of...i've always had my car undercover before the storm hits.....which is why i wanted to go to morayfield shopping centre......we just didnt get there in time.....we had to find something else.

 

and yes i think we were pretty bloody lucky.....cause that awning wasnt real big.

i have full comp :D though i wouldn't write my car off and cash in unless it was totally destroyed or stolen. if it's overcast and i was going to a car show, i'd stuff a few thick blankets in the boot. what's worth more, 100 bucks of blankys from kmart, or all the time and effort of fixing your car?

do what i did - carboard boxes, then blankets with a car cover

 

lol yes, i was this crazy about the old Blue ke70 :D

True, but blankets often don't do much against hail...

 

even small stuff

lol I was doing 110kmph in light hale (bit bigger than marble size)...celica didnt get one single dent AND I managed to out-run the storm :D

old cars generally hold up better to hail than the new cars anyway..

and rust, funnily enough