Well I get to take my new car in to get the hail dents out of it.

[texas1928]

GOD DAMN IT!!! #*$()@_!) #*@()@! ##*@(!*@)#($*@&!@*#(@*!@ @*#&@)(*!@#(#*@*!(#)(# #*()@(*@*!) *#*@(*&#$@&#$#@(!@)(#&#

[sasquatch]

1. Why don't you tell us how you really feel

:hide:

[texas1928]

3. @#*#@)(#(@*#*@))@((@$$%(#*@#(

#*#(@*!(@#*@(#$)$&#*@&!*@#(@*!@&&#*@*@!&!*#&*#*@&!*!!!!!!!!!

I MEAN DAMN!!! Less than a week old and already has been violated.

[sasquatch]

9. LOL, I guess that's what you get for living in Texas

;)

[efhmc]

10. Just went through hail in Austin 2 days ago in my also 1 week old car.

Where were you? I think the car is okay. It seems to be.

[texas1928]

11. Lubbock TX.

Got woken up at 5:30 this morning to the sound of a sledge hammer bouncing off the roof. It lasted about 20 minutes. Marble to golf ball size hail here and baseball west of us. We have a chance for it to happen again tomorrow. #*$(#(@)@*#*!@(@#*#($#)$(#*@@*#$&

[Scout1071]

2. Are they really bad?

I live in KS and quite familiar with the phenomenon. You should check with your dealer or insurance agent. Many of the new car metals will eventually pop back out....so says my dad who's worked in insurance for 30 yrs anyway.

I have had many, many friends keep the insurance check and hold out to see if they will pop out...and they do in many cases.

However, if you have a new car and are insured, you might as well go for it.

[texas1928]

5. They are not bad.

But about 14 or so dents. We got lucky, and did not get the Baseball size stuff. Lots of cars do not have their windshields anymore.

[tridim]

4. Paintless dent removal works really well

If that helps. :shrug:

[texas1928]

7. I am taking it in tomorrow once I get it back from the hand control people

And see what the estimate is.

[progmom]

6. noooo! you poor thing!

That sucks in a big way. Dammit - your new Mustang???????? Poop. x(

[texas1928]

8. Yeah and My wife's car too.

SO we get to have fun tomorrow.

[Love Bug]

12. Reminds me of a joke....

A blond decides to go for a drive in her new car. Her equally bond roommate goes with her. They drive through a hailstorm and the hailstones dent up the car! The blond is upset over this, so they drive immediately to the body shop. Now, the mechanic, seeing the car's owner is blond, decides to have a little fun.

He says, "I know a way to get the dents out of your car that will cost you absolutely nothing."

"Really?" she says. "What way is that?"

"Well," he says, "What you need to do is get on your knees behind the car and blow into the tail pipe. That will pop out the dents."

"Is that all?" she says. "I can do that!" So she gets on her knees and starts blowing as hard as she can into the tailpipe. After a few minutes she says, all out of breath, "Nothing is happening. I don't understand."

"HEL-LO" says her roommate, "The windows are OPEN!"

[texas1928]

14. #&@*(#($!&@*# HA HA HA #*@&*#$*@!@#*$%^

Funny.

:rofl:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. Ick! I'm sorry to hear that...

Usually when there's a sever weather bulletin I run around like a crazy woman trying to clear room in the garage for my daughter's car beside mine. Lately my garage has been staying clean. Nothing like spring in Texas.

[texas1928]

15. The tornadic storms we had around 8 PM are now moving...

Toward my parents and Abilene. It is going to be a long night. And we are going to have this stuff again tomorrow.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. Stay safe

Cars are much easier to fix than people.

[texas1928]

18. Yeah that is true.

Plus I have full coverage on the cars so, they will get fixed. It is jsut a pain the butt having to go and do that.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

19. Oooh, but you get to drive a nifty rental!

They're always fun. :eyes:

[texas1928]

20. Nah we have two cars now so we will take them in one at a time.

So and with the dents it should only take a few hours to get them out.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

21. How do they get them out?

I imagine some kind of suction thing, but I'm only guessing.

[texas1928]

22. They use a metal rod.

and get under the dent and slow work them out. some of the ones on my car should pop right out with just a little work.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

23. OK, thanks for telling me

I suffer from curiousitius. I'm always curious about anything I don't know about. :)

[Scout1071]

25. Thunderstorms are rolling thru here right as well.

KC that is...

[Canadian Socialist]

17. A few hail dents? Amateur

We have such bad hailstorms up here (in Calgary). A bad one a few years ago cost over half a billion dollars of damage to houses. PLUS, a guy I worked with, his neighbour's dog was killed by the storm. There was over 1 metre of hailstones (in the middle of August) outside. It was pretty impressive.

[texas1928]

24. Try having those type every year or so.

We had one same time two years ago.

[Canadian Socialist]

26. But... But... there is no such thing as climate change!

Sorry, had to do that. What kills me is that a lot (not all) Americans say they would love to move to Canada... but it's soooo cold. Well, maybe, in some parts. But, we don't seem to have the violent weather you have down in the south. I'm not slagging on Americans here. I'm just saying for the most part, weather in Canada is pretty predictable. We don't usually have tornadoes, floods or blizzard that come out of the blue. I'm also not saying we don't have these things, it's just that we have such a good weather watch (Environment Canada) programme, that we know when bad things are coming, and can prepare for them. In the whole, not in the main, BTW. There are surprises, of course. But, I have lived in the country for 50 years, and almost never been surprised by something (weather-wise). We are given warnings of blizzards, rains, etc. days in advance. So we can prepare. I'm just saying.

[texas1928]

27. With the storms around here it is hard to be prepared.

The ones this morning had decreased in intensity and then as they hit the city they bubbled up to a larger size. The ones this evening would decrease and then increase and throw out a tornado and then bubble back down to a smaller size. The cloud tops on these storms stayed consistent at 55,000 feet up in the air.

The one thing is you can never prepare for weather, you can see them coming and they look like a normal storm, and then one little updraft and that simple storm has gone nuts and is tearing everything up. Others look like they will be horrid and they just seem to fall apart by themselves.