Well that's the end of that.
10 minutes of super hail storm at 11.30 last night has turned her into a golf ball....
Can't even face taking pictures.

omg, I was waiting for someone to come on here and say this. Thought about leaving mine in a car park in town tomorrow night , just in case ! How bad is the damage ? Gutted for you .

Gutted for you!

There must be 40+ dents in the bonnet, another 20 in the roof.
Boot lid has a few.
Brothers Megane f1 is a similar mess.

Properly gutted, just shy of 6 years of ownership. Wouldn't care but I'm in the process of moving house so have a respray value in cash tied up in stamp duty....

Sorry to here this, BM.

I worry about my Coop being damaged from underneath (by rust).

Never considered it being written off from above.

My step-brother lives near Brisbane, Aus, and pock marked cars are driven about as the norm.

Does your insurance cover this type of damage?

Gutted for you

I think it was Nigel that had the same happen to him a few years ago

Likewise terrified of this news turning up - gutted for you BM

As a resident of Brisbane, the pockmarked cars are becoming less as the Insurance Companies/repairers are catching up with the work created last November when several suburbs were hit with a really bad hail storm. Some roofs of houses are still to be repaired.

I feel for you BM, as we often have severe hail storms here, but I have been lucky an always managed to have my cars under cover.

There have also been a few bargains to had with some people purchasing "repairable write-off" vehicles.

Well remembered...

12 June 2006 - approx 150-200 dents - mostly on the roof and bonnet, but even the doors and rear quarters were damaged where hailstones had bounced off adjacent cars

PS - I claimed on my insurance - took £2k to put right

Terrible news Big Muzzie.

Living just a few miles from you I'm surprised it didn't happen to mine either. I stood there watching the electrical storm not realising hail could have fallen.

Terrible news, I saw a few photos and thought there might be a few get caught out by it, what a pointless way for a car to go

I hope the insurance cover it.

Sounds awful, and I wasn't aware that that sort of thing happened in the UK, hailstones yes, but not enough to damage a car so badly.

I'm not sure if it's possible, as I don't know how severe the dents are, but couldn't a dent removal company help?

I had a number of dents, small to medium size on my coupe when I bought it. The drivers door was the worst, with 20+ ripples/dents along it.
A local dent removal firm assessed the work, and did the entire car in an hour or so for £100, including ones I hadn't initially spotted.
I'd definately call them out for a quote, it costs you nothing, even if you don't think it's possible, it's amazing what they can do.

The ones that did my car were golf-ball sized - the hailstorm stripped all the leaves off a fully mature tree outside my office window in less than three minutes

Imagine a million golf balls being tipped out of the back of a plane at 20,000 feet - you really wouldn't want to be on the ground when they arrived.....

Muzzie - the insurance company will probably try to worm out of it initially, claiming "act of God" or something similar - I probably have some of my response letters if you need some wording to help a claim

Yeah golf ball / tennis ball!!

Insurance would repair but at the cost I suspect to repair it's a write off.

Think I'm going to get an xfr once I've moved and the coupe can slowly be fixed....

Thanks for the kind words! I'm truly gutted still.