SwissTony

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You might have to wait a little bit longer

£80million bill for VW after hailstorm dents 30,000 cars - Mirror.co.uk

Sorry if it is a repost, saw it on another forum

Daft Lad

Affected me big time at work, had to ring about 30 of our Skoda customers to inform them that there has been a 'slight incident' with their vehicles!

SwissTony

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I hope you gave them your best

" oh we got a little problem "

Spoon

It opened the doors for a racing version of the Beetle though

stilover

That's an awfull lot of filler !!!

Glad mine hasn't been built yet

Jamo

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would you be happy with a repaired "new" car? I wouldnt!

what would scooby do

£12.50 worth of damage then

Kuohu

Wonder if this is covered by their insurance? Aren't things like this normally classed as acts of God?

harry007

all this from a freak hail storm......

Petem95

They should have just sold them as special editions with 'unique styling features' - could have charged extra then

what would scooby do

..or just badged them all as Golfs and said "hey look they all look like golf *****"

Tidgy

its 10k of cars not 30k, you gotta love the media.

and as far as drafting in body specialist thats coblers as well, there being returned to factory for repairs

sbk1972

Whatever the facts, I wouldnt want it, and would demand a different car. Unless the dented areas were replaced with new wings, bonnets, etc.

SBK

Tidgy

thasts why there being returned to factory

Neanderthal

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Guy at work ordered a Tigwan? for his wife. Been told it'll be another 5 weeks if he still wants the same spec/colour. They've managed to find him the same colour but slightly diff spec for delivery in 2 weeks.

Wurzel

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Not here in Germany thank god! Hail damage is so common that it is covered under your car insurance.

We get hail the size of golf ***** here, my mates STi 7 was trashed by hail a few years ago, every panel was dented, it looked like a golf ball.

Insurance paid for it.

We have the Mercedes plant here in Boeblingen aswell as the Smart plant and Mercedes have planes that go up and spray the clouds with something to prevent the hail stones forming into golf *****. Which is great for the rest of us as our cars are not damaged either.

Wurzel

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There is nothing freak about the hail storms we get here???

Fortunately they always happen around the same time each year and you can usually tell when they are going to hit so you can get your car under cover if possible.