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I win!!!!

I had some kid hit me (he aqua planed into a guard rail then came onto my side of the road, I had a ditch or his car to hit, "tough choice really") while I was driving my girlfriends mums car in the rain (coming back from getting a mates dogs inside because of the weather). Now have to go through bullshit insurance shit. Pretty pissed off.

My condolences for everyone who has had their cars f**ked. :D

GTR was under carport as was wife's new Dualis, we learned the hard way back in 2003 when the 100 year storm hit the Eastern suburbs and there where cars floating down the FWY etc, Burke Road was like a river torrent in the bosses GTiR driving up it was like you were in a jetski with massive rooster tails on each side of the car.

Anyway, that time her 2 month old Mirage got destroyed but they fixed it via insurance with paintless dent removal. Came up brand spankers again.

Lucky we didn't get bad hail in Melton, just pea to 5c piece sized. Lots of rain though, backyard was flooded and the bloodey SHAMWOW did fark all at soaking up the water!!

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Here's the Backyard and the laswt one is the water from the back going down the drive to the front, bloody Tuscan Topping and clay soil means no drainage!!

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The Skyline was out in the drive, but I heard about the hail coming so I put it into the garage... lucky! My sister's Lancer and mum's Camry were parked outside... both got heaps of dents :D

I found this whopper of a hailstone on the back lawn...

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this landed in a mate's yard

holy fkn jesus! that would have taken someones fkn head off!

its good to see a lot of people are taking this incident with a good sense of humour. i know i got a really good laugh at on point where i drove into a flooded lane and drowned a dude standing in the gutter LOL

Thank fuck insurance is paying up!

Just gota get the windscreen fixed, pay for it, Just Cars will Re-enburst the cost.

Got my Claim Number just then, now need a quote on the panel damage from any panel beater, Just Cars will give the Go Ahead and all I have to pay is $500 excess.

A 2nd hand bonnet alone would have cost $500+

:D

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