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      06-29-2012, 03:15 PM   #1
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Just arrived home after a few days in Sweden on business to find 47 dents in my bonnet, roof, tailgate, wings - caused by hail storm in Leicestershire yesterday. It looks like I parked on a golf driving range! A trip to dealers body shop next week.
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Is this quite common with cars or a problem with X3s?
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Just arrived home after a few days in Sweden on business to find 47 dents in my bonnet, roof, tailgate, wings - caused by hale storm in Leicestershire yesterday. It looks like I parked on a golf driving range! A trip to dealers body shop next week.
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Is this quite common with cars or a problem with X3s?
ammmm.......what the....really?

too funny..
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I know how you feel. On vacation I had some person open there car into my left front fender and left a dent the size of a golf ball. Had a dent removal guy repaired it. Looks pretty good. Not perfect but better than the dent. You probable wouldn't find it unless i showed you. The dent Doctor said the BMW has real metal in it compared to the Hondas and Toyotas. Cost $50.
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      06-30-2012, 01:13 AM   #6
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I know how you feel. On vacation I had some person open there car into my left front fender and left a dent the size of a golf ball. Had a dent removal guy repaired it. Looks pretty good. Not perfect but better than the dent. You probable wouldn't find it unless i showed you. The dent Doctor said the BMW has real metal in it compared to the Hondas and Toyotas. Cost $50.
Now times it by 47! I'm surprised the sunroof and windscreen escaped unscathed as some of the dents a BIG with worst being just below rear window on the body crease (above rear light cluster)
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+1 on the dent repair guys. I had them fix a couple of dents on the hood of our E46, right along the crease line. You could not tell that a problem ever existed when they were done.

Best of luck to the OP -- I hope this gets resolved to the best possible outcome for you.
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Sorry to hear and I share your pain

I had severe hail damage too after only 4 days of owning my car. If it's any consolation the dent repair guys do a superb job and couldn't see any signs of imperfections after they were done no matter how hard I tried.

Hopefully you get it back soon and all is well in the world again.
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Just arrived home after a few days in Sweden on business to find 47 dents in my bonnet, roof, tailgate, wings - caused by hail storm in Leicestershire yesterday. It looks like I parked on a golf driving range! A trip to dealers body shop next week.
I saw the hailstones on the BBC news when I was in Warsaw (watching Italy beat Germany) and thought at the time I'm glad it was in the Midlands, not at Gatwick where my X3 was parked. And now I read this! Very unlucky mate. Hope they can get it back looking as good as new. I had a diamond black GTI that was badly scratched and dented by some tools looking for laptops in boots and the bodyshop repair work finish (all on insurance) was amazing
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Just arrived home after a few days in Sweden on business to find 47 dents in my bonnet, roof, tailgate, wings - caused by hail storm in Leicestershire yesterday. It looks like I parked on a golf driving range! A trip to dealers body shop next week.
I saw the hailstones on the BBC news when I was in Warsaw (watching Italy beat Germany) and thought at the time I'm glad it was in the Midlands, not at Gatwick where my X3 was parked. And now I read this! Very unlucky mate. Hope they can get it back looking as good as new. I had a diamond black GTI that was badly scratched and dented by some tools looking for laptops in boots and the bodyshop repair work finish (all on insurance) was amazing
I sat in a bar in Stockholm watching the game looking at Facebook pics of the hail stones the size of golf balls and floods locally washing a car down the road. I was just pleased my 400 year old roof survived (the car is easier to fix). I had asked the wife if the car was ok and she said yes (she hadn't noticed the damage - should have gone to specsavers), luckily she had gone shopping and her car was parked in a multi-storey car park escaping damage.

The final dent count after a wash is.......... 62! I'm guessing a repair bill of £2,400 (some dents can only be seen in certain light as you look across the bodywork, others are big).
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Wow sorry to hear about this.
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What a bummer! Every time I hear of a storm I fear hail. April 2011 we had a vehicle demolished that had a car cover on it which was worthless and just this week got the roof replaced secondary to golf ball size hail.
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      07-06-2012, 01:42 PM   #13
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Ok, so the main dealer has inspected and given a budget price.......

Wait for it, are you sitting down.......

Price is estimated to be >£5000 (new bonnet, remove sunroof and fix roof then re-spray)

OUCH!

That's why we have insurance.
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Yes, OUCH!

Sorry to hear that. I had a hire car in Spain a few years back, and was caught in a hail storm, the car ended up looking like the surface of a golf ball over the whole car. Hire company didn't question the damage, thank god.

Did they say how long to do the repair on the X3?
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