They do come in 3s.

NM_BMW · 07-06-2009, 09:12 PM

My mother always use to say that bad things come in 3s. Unfortunately she was correct.

#1
It all started Thursday afternoon. I pulled the Jeep out of the car port so I could wash and wax the 335. As I finished with the car the lady comes home and needs help bringing things inside, so I help her out and then got distracted by a few things and ended up going to bed. She wakes me up early telling me its raining hard so she closes the window to the house. Not thinking about it I go back to bed. I wake up to get ready for my day off of doing nothing and I roll over and curse. My Jeep! I left it out from the car port with only the bikini top on. Oh well, I pull the drain plugs and rip out the seats to get dried, and then later on cleaned over the weekend. Time to put the hard top back on!

#2
July 4th. My nephew (He's 6) got a new RC car for playing really well in his golf tournament for little fellas. How nice his grandparents are. In his excitement he asks me if I would mind bringing my nitro car out for him to check out. I bought the thing for $50 and it had the right sides front suspension messed up. Broken. I spent $20 and got her all fixed. So as I'm running the buggy around the street and going through the paces (the thing hauls... maybe 45-50mph), I get to the end of the street where I turn the car around. Something happened, not sure if the servo got stuck or it was out of range, but the throttle got stuck wide open.

The thing nails a trailer flips around then nails the front of a trucks tire. Breaking everything that I had just fixed along with the servos. Now I know why I never got into Nitro cars. They break all the time!!!

#3

I wake up this morning, being a normal Monday, got up slow. Looked outside and the sky was beautiful. Couldn't have been more perfect of a day for July. I decided to take the clean ride to work today. Saw that the tires were low in front so got the compressor filled them up and backed out the drive way. Got to work safely and then was called for support at one of branch locations that I had to attend to immediately. Took the company car and off I was. While I was gone.... mother nature destroyed....

HAIL!! Golf ball size hail. Dented every panel that was visible to the sky. Hood, roof, trunk, all four doors, door trim, fenders, everything!! The hail hit so hard it broke two of the four roof rack covers right off. All the glass was fine, so I got lucky in that respect. Made a claim with my insurance today, and should be seeing somebody in the next 48hrs to look at the damage. Sad day for the bimmer.

The pictures do no justice of the damage... the car looks like a golf ball. Dimples everywhere.

NRG · 07-06-2009, 09:19 PM

God damn man, I do feel for you. Hail, it is actually scares the hell out of me, since there is no easy way to fix the car after. We've been getting some here as well. Gl with repairs, keep us posted.

NM_BMW · 07-06-2009, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by NRG

God damn man, I do feel for you. Hail, it is actually scares the hell out of me, since there is no easy way to fix the car after. We've been getting some here as well. Gl with repairs, keep us posted.

One thing I'm worried about. If they can pop them all out which I know some good shops that may be able to do that, then everything is fine and dandy. What scares me is if they have to pop and then repaint. I really don't want to repaint my car as it will never be the same as the original paint. If I had to paint, I might look at the idea of putting in some of my own money to get carbon fiber pieces for what can be replaced. Like the hood and trunk. The roof is so damaged it looks like the whole panel needs replacement. I don't know what they'll do on the doors and fenders.

Lowcruzr · 07-06-2009, 09:32 PM

Sorry to see that. We just had hail roll through here that did the same thing. Luckily, I had taken my beater to work that day.

Hope the insurance company takes care of you. Good luck!

Vudoo4u2 · 07-06-2009, 09:39 PM

sorry for the events...but all I hear is:

time to get a new trunk, cf roof, vrs hood, new bumpers and fenders

mod haven

XPO186 · 07-06-2009, 10:39 PM

The fuckin sucks man... I feel your pain

cstmx_ryder · 07-07-2009, 01:57 AM

Sorry to hear that man, it hurts me looking at the pictures.........If it happened to me, I'd go ape s@#$!

enrita · 07-07-2009, 02:07 AM

wow sorry man.. those pictures are very painful to watch...

TheTwinz · 07-07-2009, 05:26 AM

wow where do you live?

SpmnE9zero · 07-07-2009, 06:16 AM

A good dent remover will be a ble to fix that no problem without harming your paint.
My friend (Mgr at local BMW shop) just bought a used 135 from the auction that had hail damage and it was completely repaired without any paint issues. This 135 had 436 dents in it, it took the guy over two days to get them all out. When all said and done my friend (after selling the car) made 11,000.00 off of this car because he got it so cheap due to hail.
However, if the insurance company wants to have new panels installed, cf everything...
GL

I335 · 07-07-2009, 06:55 AM

Sorry to hear of your woes and I hope your insurance takes care of you 100% - that would really bum me out. I have to say though, I did enjoy the read...

ragingclue · 07-07-2009, 08:57 AM

Oh wow. I would have cried.

NM_BMW · 07-07-2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Vudoo4u2

sorry for the events...but all I hear is:

time to get a new trunk, cf roof, vrs hood, new bumpers and fenders

mod haven

That's what I'm thinking... If they replace panels hood and trunk will be CF for sure.

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Originally Posted by XPO186

The fuckin sucks man... I feel your pain

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by cstmx_ryder

Sorry to hear that man, it hurts me looking at the pictures.........If it happened to me, I'd go ape s@#$!

I wanted too. Worst thing was I wasn't even there to see the damage. I was in another town where they got no hail.

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Originally Posted by enrita

wow sorry man.. those pictures are very painful to watch...

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Originally Posted by TheTwinz

wow where do you live?

New Mexico

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Originally Posted by SpmnE9zero

A good dent remover will be a ble to fix that no problem without harming your paint.
My friend (Mgr at local BMW shop) just bought a used 135 from the auction that had hail damage and it was completely repaired without any paint issues. This 135 had 436 dents in it, it took the guy over two days to get them all out. When all said and done my friend (after selling the car) made 11,000.00 off of this car because he got it so cheap due to hail.
However, if the insurance company wants to have new panels installed, cf everything...
GL

I'm hoping it comes to this. I hope they can pop out all the dents in the fendors and doors without any paint involved. The roof looks horrible, if their able to pop all those dents on top of dents I'll be impressed. I counted at least 50 dents in the hood alone and that was just picking and choosing the big ones.

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Originally Posted by I335

Sorry to hear of your woes and I hope your insurance takes care of you 100% - that would really bum me out. I have to say though, I did enjoy the read...

I'm truly bummed... I just ordered the new Rixster gauge, joined the Helix FMIC GB and upgraded to the Rev II which should be here this week. I don't want to go driving around in a golf ball looking car.

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Originally Posted by ragingclue

Oh wow. I would have cried.

Almost did..

NM_BMW · 07-08-2009, 12:21 PM

Adjuster looked at the damage.

It came out to about $10,000 worth of damage to the car.

Hood, roof, trunk and all moldings will be replaced with new. All other side dents etc, will be poped out using the paintless dent repair. She did mention a few dents may have to be filled in with bondo and repainted. I really don't want body filler on the car. Does anyone know a way around to getting body filler put on the car?? I guess I can talk to the body shop and mention I want any panels needing body filler to be replaced with new panels, but I'm not sure if they would do that or not. Any advice???

SpmnE9zero · 07-08-2009, 12:26 PM

Yah, not too sure the adjuster would know too much about the proper dent removal process. Talk to a paintless dent removal guy and see what he thinks about the one's that will need filled in with bondo. I would be cautious about asking the body guy, just in case he has ulterior motives (needs the work). I only say this because I would exhaust all options before paint.
Although, I had my front bumper repainted and you would never know it. As long as a real good body shop is contracted to do the work you should be fine either way...
GL

Bimmerdriver17 · 07-09-2009, 09:26 AM

Jeeeeeez, that really sucks. We had some hail here in NY a couple of days ago, but luckily not around where I am in Long Island...I really feel for you.

cstavaru · 07-09-2009, 11:30 AM

Hail is the one thing I'm afraid of. I have a car cover now, but I doubt it will protect the car from such wheather conditions...

pdjafari · 07-09-2009, 11:42 AM

I once literally dove on my car to try and prevent hail damage, this was on my previous car my 1 week old G35 coupe...

Drakos · 07-09-2009, 11:50 AM

Check in your area to see if there is a paintless dent repair facility. It happened to my car once and it costed me $700 CAD to do my whole car. It looked like new again.

ragingclue · 07-09-2009, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cstavaru

Hail is the one thing I'm afraid of. I have a car cover now, but I doubt it will protect the car from such wheather conditions...

Well a car cover would seem to help in protecting the integrity of the paint somewhat, but it's not going to do a whole lot for the dents unless it's one of those nice, thick covers.

NM_BMW · 07-09-2009, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by cstavaru

Hail is the one thing I'm afraid of. I have a car cover now, but I doubt it will protect the car from such wheather conditions...

It might prevent some, but your car will still get damaged.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdjafari

I once literally dove on my car to try and prevent hail damage, this was on my previous car my 1 week old G35 coupe...

lol.. my buddy was at his house trying to throw the house rugs, mats and anything else he could find over his car to help protect it. It didn't really help that much.

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Originally Posted by Drakos

Check in your area to see if there is a paintless dent repair facility. It happened to my car once and it costed me $700 CAD to do my whole car. It looked like new again.

It's tough when 20,000 cars were damaged in the area. My shop can't get my car in until the end of September and then it is going to take them 3 weeks to get the car fixed. It should be back together before Halloween, but then winter comes

... Let's say it won't be back on the road until next spring once winter hits.

07-06-2009, 09:12 PM	#1
NM_BMW Vishnu Powered 68 Rep 2,205 Posts Drives: 335xi, S1000RR Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Proceding iTrader: (7)	They do come in 3s. My mother always use to say that bad things come in 3s. Unfortunately she was correct. #1 It all started Thursday afternoon. I pulled the Jeep out of the car port so I could wash and wax the 335. As I finished with the car the lady comes home and needs help bringing things inside, so I help her out and then got distracted by a few things and ended up going to bed. She wakes me up early telling me its raining hard so she closes the window to the house. Not thinking about it I go back to bed. I wake up to get ready for my day off of doing nothing and I roll over and curse. My Jeep! I left it out from the car port with only the bikini top on. Oh well, I pull the drain plugs and rip out the seats to get dried, and then later on cleaned over the weekend. Time to put the hard top back on! #2 July 4th. My nephew (He's 6) got a new RC car for playing really well in his golf tournament for little fellas. How nice his grandparents are. In his excitement he asks me if I would mind bringing my nitro car out for him to check out. I bought the thing for $50 and it had the right sides front suspension messed up. Broken. I spent $20 and got her all fixed. So as I'm running the buggy around the street and going through the paces (the thing hauls... maybe 45-50mph), I get to the end of the street where I turn the car around. Something happened, not sure if the servo got stuck or it was out of range, but the throttle got stuck wide open. The thing nails a trailer flips around then nails the front of a trucks tire. Breaking everything that I had just fixed along with the servos. Now I know why I never got into Nitro cars. They break all the time!!! #3 I wake up this morning, being a normal Monday, got up slow. Looked outside and the sky was beautiful. Couldn't have been more perfect of a day for July. I decided to take the clean ride to work today. Saw that the tires were low in front so got the compressor filled them up and backed out the drive way. Got to work safely and then was called for support at one of branch locations that I had to attend to immediately. Took the company car and off I was. While I was gone.... mother nature destroyed.... HAIL!! Golf ball size hail. Dented every panel that was visible to the sky. Hood, roof, trunk, all four doors, door trim, fenders, everything!! The hail hit so hard it broke two of the four roof rack covers right off. All the glass was fine, so I got lucky in that respect. Made a claim with my insurance today, and should be seeing somebody in the next 48hrs to look at the damage. Sad day for the bimmer. The pictures do no justice of the damage... the car looks like a golf ball. Dimples everywhere. Attached Images __________________ 2008 335xi Sedan \| Titanium Silver \| Black Dakota PROcede v5 \| Vishnu Exhaust \| BMS DCI \| AR Catless DPs \| Helix FMIC \| Stett Charge w/ Tial BOV \| MORR VS8s \| KWv3
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NRG Lieutenant Colonel 36 Rep 1,658 Posts Drives: 2012 X5 35d Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Montreal QC iTrader: (5)	God damn man, I do feel for you. Hail, it is actually scares the hell out of me, since there is no easy way to fix the car after. We've been getting some here as well. Gl with repairs, keep us posted. __________________ Retired: 2005 N52 E90 330i Sport 6AT Retired: 2007 N54 E92 335i Sport 6AT Current: 2012 M57 E70 X5 xDrive35D
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NM_BMW Vishnu Powered 68 Rep 2,205 Posts Drives: 335xi, S1000RR Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Proceding iTrader: (7)	Adjuster looked at the damage. It came out to about $10,000 worth of damage to the car. Hood, roof, trunk and all moldings will be replaced with new. All other side dents etc, will be poped out using the paintless dent repair. She did mention a few dents may have to be filled in with bondo and repainted. I really don't want body filler on the car. Does anyone know a way around to getting body filler put on the car?? I guess I can talk to the body shop and mention I want any panels needing body filler to be replaced with new panels, but I'm not sure if they would do that or not. Any advice??? __________________ 2008 335xi Sedan \| Titanium Silver \| Black Dakota PROcede v5 \| Vishnu Exhaust \| BMS DCI \| AR Catless DPs \| Helix FMIC \| Stett Charge w/ Tial BOV \| MORR VS8s \| KWv3
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Drakos Lieutenant 64 Rep 534 Posts Drives: 2022 G42 M240i Join Date: May 2009 Location: Canada iTrader: (1)	Check in your area to see if there is a paintless dent repair facility. It happened to my car once and it costed me $700 CAD to do my whole car. It looked like new again.
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