| inky |
Well, guys. Stuff happens. Huge 12 inch deep hail storm came out of nowhere this morning in Tulsa, OK. New Aspen pearl white MDX has estimate of $5200 in damage. $1000 on me-baseball size yikes.
Sounded like a world war. Hope it gets proper repair will use combo of paintless and traditional paint repair. Hood is trashed and not even fixable. Went straight to body shop at lunch to get the news early--can fix. Just takes money.
Keeps you focused! Best treasures are where? In heaven. |
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| dvilla |
Inky,
Sorry to hear about that but that's when your car insurance come in handy. |
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| hammermdx |
| That sucks, post sime pics if you can and good luck with the repair. |
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| ayanomich |
Wow, that is a bummer. Were you driving or was the X parked outside? Guess you have the max deductible of $1K??? You probably are not financing? My credit union limits me to $500 ded.
Good Luck with the repair. My son lives in OKC, hope they didn't have the hail, I'll have to call him. |
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| inky |
I will tell you all that my car was parked outside with all my coworkers. I did a survey of damage and my car has deep unrepairable dings (hood replacement required). All Chevy trucks faired well. ford trucks worse (larger than golf ball size).
Amazing to me is the Lexus RX 300 and ES 300 right by me. No damage as I can tell--my MDX looks like hammering on the hood, sides and roof. If you live in hail country. Take that to the bank.
The dent doctor confirmed with me during my estimate (paintless dent repair and painting will be required) that Lexus is by far the best sheet metal in the business. Unfortunately he confirmed that Honda and Acura are prone to dings and indentation. |
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| XStatic |
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Originally posted by inky
I will tell you all that my car was parked outside with all my coworkers. I did a survey of damage and my car has deep unrepairable dings (hood replacement required). All Chevy trucks faired well. ford trucks worse (larger than golf ball size).
Amazing to me is the Lexus RX 300 and ES 300 right by me. No damage as I can tell--my MDX looks like hammering on the hood, sides and roof. If you live in hail country.
That would have made an interesting photo!
I feel your pain, hopefully they get it cleaned up for you.
I had the same thing happen on my 1994 Trooper in May, I didn't think it looked that bad all things considered. The blue book on the truck was about 6-7K and they wrote me a check for 5K. This was actually the excuse we were looking for to buy the MDX. While I kept the truck and traded our V70, the 5K went straight into the MDX purchase equation.... |
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| catzx6 |
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Originally posted by inky
...my car has deep unrepairable dings (hood replacement required)...Amazing to me is the Lexus RX 300 and ES 300 right by me. No damage as I can tell--my MDX looks like hammering on the hood, sides and roof...The dent doctor confirmed with me during my estimate (paintless dent repair and painting will be required) that Lexus is by far the best sheet metal in the business. Unfortunately he confirmed that Honda and Acura are prone to dings and indentation.
Man, sorry to hear about your misfortune. It has been thoroughly discussed, that Acura sheetmetal is like foil. It is amazing how well the MDX handles severe accidents, when just a brush dings the door. |
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| JL_SS |
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Originally posted by catzx6
........It has been thoroughly discussed, that Acura sheetmetal is like foil. It is amazing how well the MDX handles severe accidents, when just a brush dings the door.
And you'd think they would thicken the sheet metal a bit now that they have moved entirely away from body side moldings.......... |
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| JL_SS |
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Originally posted by inky
I will tell you all that my car was parked outside with all my coworkers. I did a survey of damage and my car has deep unrepairable dings (hood replacement required). All Chevy trucks faired well. ford trucks worse (larger than golf ball size).
Amazing to me is the Lexus RX 300 and ES 300 right by me. No damage as I can tell--my MDX looks like hammering on the hood, sides and roof. If you live in hail country. Take that to the bank.
The dent doctor confirmed with me during my estimate (paintless dent repair and painting will be required) that Lexus is by far the best sheet metal in the business. Unfortunately he confirmed that Honda and Acura are prone to dings and indentation.
We had a similiar experience with a new CIVIC back around 1996. Car was 3 months old and parked in a lot when a fairly light hail storm came through. The only car to experience damage was the CIVIC - it was the only Honda in the lot. The hood needed to be replaced and several dents filled in on the horizontal surfaces. The Hyundai parked next to it experienced no damage. |
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| TulsaMDX |
| Sorry to hear about the MDX. My wife's was outside, but it did not hail at her job. Who would have thought it would hail in Tulsa in November? Good luck to you. |
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| zafer |
Were you ever able to take some photos?
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| inky |
| No but dannot visually detect a thing! |
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| zafer |
| I meant of the damage. |
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