OH HAIL!!!!!!!

[Wayne Doenges]

Does anyone, besides me, have damage to their vehicle from the hail storm Saturday around 1830. My hood looks like someone took a ball peen hammer to it.
If you need to submit a claim, I have picutres of the storm and the size of the hail.

[IndySam]

I have dents and a cracked windshield :(

[Billfred]

Our bus was parked right outside the Dome, across in a side street. No discernible damage.

[Chris_Elston]

My truck is ruined, and the trailer is dented all up.

[Gary Dillard]

My wife's new car is covered with dings. I was in the volunteer lot. I'll let you know if I need pictures - thanks Wayne.

[vhcook]

I've got a lovely collection of dents on the trunk, roof, and hood.

[dricks]

My son and I were in my Dad's 2012 Toyota Ouch!!!:ahh:

[Gary Dillard]

I just got the repair estimate - $6600 (ouch!). Thank God for a $500 deductible.

[David Brinza]

I'm in the same boat with my rental car: dozens of dings on the hood, roof and trunk, but no window damage.

I contacted Hertz and am submitting an incident report. My auto insurance has a $500 deductible as well.

[Koko Ed]

My rental car was chock full of little dents.

[Taylor]

Does anyone, besides me, have damage to their vehicle from the hail storm Saturday around 1830.

According to TBA, 1830 (http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1830) did not compete this year. ::rtm:: :confused:


edit: every time I go fishin', they just leap right in the boat! Thanks, Dane!

[dman9385]

According to TBA, 1830 (http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1830) did not compete this year. ::rtm:: :confused:

1830 is military time for 6:30pm which is the time this whole storm came in. Good times. Glad there was no severe damage or casualties

[DjScribbles]

I got an estimate for 6850$ for our Saturn this morning. Thank god for insurance.

We were parked in the lot across from the volunteer lot, rather poor choice in hindsight (we also ran over on a cinderblock left in the middle of the road just past the $$ takers; thankfully no damage there)

I'm just glad we didn't have any window damage :)

[Jimmy Nichols]

Lots of dents all over the hood, roof and drive side of my 2011 Ram. I didn't check the trailer. I was parked in front of the Mellinium. I heard and saw that it was worse for those parked by the dome, since there were no buildings to shield the brunt of the hail. I called my insurance this morning. Plan on stopping at the body shop on the way home for an estimate.

I totaled my last truck a little over a year ago on a patch of black Ice, so my insurance company loves me.

[efoote868]

Contacted All State on Sunday. Saw an insurance adjuster this morning. He counted 35 dings on just a quarter of the roof of my car. Filling out the form, the "Limit" category is 101-150 dents for the roof. Heh.

Every panel on my car got hit. Estimated $2700 damage to my Chevy Cobalt (will post what the repairs total). Thank God my windshield and lights are intact otherwise waiting to drive home would've been fun.

$100 deductible and comprehensive coverage. All things considered, life is good.

[DonRotolo]

If hail dented your vehicle, I urge you to look into the "paintless dent repair" industry. One such vendor is Dent Wizard.

It is not inexpensive, but a far cry from the cost of component replacement.

If you have insurance, let them worry about it...

[Gary Dillard]

Quite a bit of my estimate was using PDR because of the type of dings, and it still totalled to $6600 (and 2 weeks in the shop, glad I got rental coverage). Trunk and hood have to be replaced, no glass work but alot of labor to remove and install stuff that has to be repaired. It's pretty impressive.

[Andy Brockway]

I have many small dings but the weirdest thing was that my compass went crazy. Both axis flipped so our drive from St Louis to New England was south and west. My truck was parked at the Hampton Inn - Downtown which had elevators that lost their mind after the storm, randomly stopping at floors most of the night.

[Wayne Doenges]

I just got the estimate to fix my 2004 Pontiac Vibe. $4100.00 :ahh:
I had over 200 dents in the hood alone. They say it will have to be replaced.

[vhcook]

For my 2006 Honda Civic, it's coming to $4600. New hood and new trunk lid because of the dent quantity and depth, new plastic roof trim bits, dent removal (some conventional, some PDR) to basically every body panel except the driver door. Two weeks in the shop. The sides weren't all that bad, possibly because I was parked between a van and a trailer.

Three cheers for comprehensive insurance.

[DonRotolo]

Ghaaa! $4600, $4100, $6600.... OMG!

I wonder if a momentary overpressure of the interior would pop all those little dents out... No, I suppose not.:rolleyes:

[Jimmy Nichols]

My estimate ended up at $2400 from the adjuster, but the shop said it would be more. I drop it off Monday, for hopefully a week. $100 deductible and comprehensive here as well.

[efoote868]

Three cheers for comprehensive insurance.

Don't worry, we already paid for it with our premiums. ;)

[RogerR]

I just got the estimate to fix my 2004 Pontiac Vibe. $4100.00 :ahh:
I had over 200 dents in the hood alone. They say it will have to be replaced.
Its too bad there isn't a local FIRST team in the area with loads of sheet metal experince that could help you out ;)

Here's hoping insurance is kind to you; when we walked back to the bus, we were looking at all the damage and cringing.

[Stillen]

who cares.... its a car/truck.....

let insurance take care of it..... if you don't have "comp" , then dent wizard works great..... as does dry ice and a torch, be careful if you've never done it before...

[Gary Dillard]

who cares.... its a car.....

Yes, but it's my wife's car. That makes a big difference.

[ratdude747]

Yes, but it's my wife's car. That makes a big difference.

That makes all the difference. May she have mercy!

[Billfred]

who cares.... its a car/truck.....

let insurance take care of it..... if you don't have "comp" , then dent wizard works great..... as does dry ice and a torch, be careful if you've never done it before...

Yes, but it's my wife's car. That makes a big difference.

When I wrecked my rental car in the lovely town of Speedway, Indiana after IRI 2010 (totaled the car that hit me, damaged two others, nearly totaled mine), the used car manager at work was of a mindset to Stillen.

But when Gary adds that little nugget of wisdom...I think someone's switching cars for a few days. ;)

[JohnChristensen]

For everyone who was inside the dome during the storm, could you post the photos for all of us to see? I would love to see what was hitting the roof.

[Joon Park]

I didn't have a car that got damaged, but we had to load the bus with the contents of our pit during the rain that came right after the hail.

With all the batteries and other equipment that doesn't like water, it was.. er.. "hail."

[Clayton Yocom]

Our trailer's roof vent was busted, but that was about the extent of the damage. We walked to the dome everyday and the busses and van that pulled the trailer were in the parking garage, so not too bad considering.

[Banderoonies]

Hail Storm outside the Robert Mayfair Hotel near the Dome

http://youtu.be/JtyGZWhJIrg

[CalTran]

I don't think our bus nor our trailer sustained any damage. If it did then I haven't heard anything about it. Thankful for that, and my best wishes to anyone who did sustain damage.

I guess you could say "All hail broke loose at Championships."

[mjgard]

We were parked in the lot right by the 7th st enterance and our van and trailer received no damage, at least that I know about. We did blow a tire out on our drive back home and bent the fendenr when that happened and some very heavy rain in OK and TX during the drive back to AZ.

[MrForbes]

I guess that $18/day parking garage was worth it...especially with no comprehensive insurance on the old Suburban

[efoote868]

I guess that $18/day parking garage was worth it...especially with no comprehensive insurance on the old Suburban

Yeah, I'm starting to regret where I parked. $1 / day parking when my deductible now costs me $100.


Took my car into the shop. Guy said they'd likely have to replace the roof. Said it'll take at least a couple weeks to repair, so I'll either have to borrow a car or rent one when I move to Cape Girardeau for my P&G internship.

[Chris_Elston]

Got the estimate on my truck, $2600. The team trailer is not covered.

[efoote868]

Shop called today, their estimate is $4100.

[techhelpbb]

Sounds like next year we need crates that when you take the robot out, you put your car in.

[David Brinza]

Travis Hoffman (Team 48) posted this video in YouTube:

St. Louis Storm outside 2012 FIRST Championship Event (http://youtu.be/ukg-yl-px-M)

I never saw a manhole cover dance before!

BTW, my insurance company determined the hail damage to my Hertz rental is covered. I'll only need to pay $250 deductible.

[artdutra04]

Travis Hoffman (Team 48) posted this video in YouTube:

St. Louis Storm outside 2012 FIRST Championship Event (http://youtu.be/ukg-yl-px-M)

I never saw a manhole cover dance before!It looks like they used the wrong type of manhole cover on that storm sewer. Usually they should have a few holes (or another method to vent built up pressure) in them to allow the air to escape when there's a huge influx of water (such as from a thunderstorm).

[Joon Park]

One of our mentors got footage of the same thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1O7cxuRNg&feature=share

Pretty crazy.

[Jaxom]

Estimate our our car (parked in the Volunteer lot) is a bit over $5K. Sad thing is that car had about the same amount of hail damage repair from a storm last April that also got us a new roof on the house.

And then, this weekend we had another hail storm here in KC. There's no way to tell if that car got even more damage, but our other car now has a claim filed too. You think your insurance company loves you.... :yikes:

[ChuckDickerson]

Got our estimate today. $10,100! Do I win the prize for the most costly damage to a vehicle in the volunteer lot?

[JamesBrown]

I am not sure why every one is so negative about this "damage", consider it an improvement.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/22/mythbusters-golf-ball-like-dimpling-mpg/

In all seriousness sorry to hear about the damage to so many cars. As for the team trailers that arent covered, if the damage is cosmetic it is probably worth keeping it as is, in four years when all the students have graduated it will be a good story.