Sad Hail Damaged Polo 6R GTi

[Hail22]

Man what a story good to hear your positive outcome.
Got through to the insurance company, there will be a mass assessment held at the show grounds in the new year, they are expecting hundreds of cars and they are getting every assessor they have back from and after holidays to do it.

Start enquiring with your local VW about up and coming stock, prices and time of arrival hopefully when that mass assessment occurs the new stock of Feb Vehicles will possibly arrive.

[frozze]

Man what a story good to hear your positive outcome.
Got through to the insurance company, there will be a mass assessment held at the show grounds in the new year, they are expecting hundreds of cars and they are getting every assessor they have back from and after holidays to do it.

Keep us posted with your outcome and good luck!

[prcurrie]

Wow - sad to hear mate. One of my biggest fears is hail damage!

Mine is still at the dealership (it's been fixed) so I HOPE that it was inside and not in an outside holding area. I will be going over it with a fine tooth comb when I pick it up next weekend......

[Karly101]

What a bummer, I hope your insurance company comes to the party.

Was lucky to avoid the hail myself but nearly got trapped in some flash flooding... times when a low car is not too good!

[theburningone]

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[MadWorm]

The insurance companies make those kind of decisions unfortunately.

There is a Golf R owner on another forum who had his 3 door stolen. He had new for old in his policy. Insurance company told him that because no 3 doors were imported he didn't get new for old so they are only going to pay market value!

If Gambit's car is written off and they can't get an exact replacement in a reasonable timeframe what will happen?

Ouch!! I own a 3 door R with a new for old policy, you've got me a touch concerned now. Don't spose you know who the insurance company was?

[mr_bzr]

You could argue that the Scirroco R is VAGs direct replacement for the 3 door golf r and see what they say

[Declanny]

Man what a story good to hear your positive outcome.
Got through to the insurance company, there will be a mass assessment held at the show grounds in the new year, they are expecting hundreds of cars and they are getting every assessor they have back from and after holidays to do it.

Gambit, which insurance company are you with?

[Gambit]

Gambit, which insurance company are you with?

I am with AAMI. Does anyone know whether they are likely to write the car off, considering the damage to the roof and pillars which are all integrated to the chassis?

[Hail22]

I am with AAMI. Does anyone know whether they are likely to write the car off, considering the damage to the roof and pillars which are all integrated to the chassis?

The logical step is to write your car off, more then 60% of the bodywork is heavily/severely damaged.

If you remember back to your last hail storm the Toyota Dealership near the childrens hospital (not a local btw) lost 60% of its inventory due to bonnet, roof and panelwork damage. they were all written off by IAG as per the law stating that cars from NSW, Victoria, SA cannot be deemed repairable write offs in order to reduce the amount of rebirthing of cars (half cuts etc)

Mate they better write it off, because they sure as heck can't call it a repairable write off haha

[Gambit]

Yeah that's a good point forgot about the new law or legislation stipulating no more repairable write offs in Vic , fingers crossed .

[anthony]

As far as I know,only NSW dont have repairable write offs anymore,Vic still does,I go to the auctions often.

[Hail22]

As far as I know,only NSW dont have repairable write offs anymore,Vic still does,I go to the auctions often.

Hmmmm why did the Victorians send their cars up to QLD and NSW after those hail storms you had a few years back? if they were repairable write offs pickles down in Victoria would of sold them like hot cakes.

[SilverBug]

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Sorry to hear this news. My six month old Golf R has over 100 dents in similar to the one in the pic.....shattered !!!

Andrew

[zbeasty]

My brother lives in the states but he got a call today and may be one of the guys assessing down there. I'll send him a link and get his thoughts. Based on some of the photos he has shown me of work he has done just about anything is repairable with paintless. As long as there is no sharp crease and the paintwork isn't damaged it can be pushed or pulled out.