Hail damage, my poor baby...
04-25-2014, 07:05 PM
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I feel your pain. My 2001 Acura CL Type S suffered the same fate. Luckily my 2014 TL was safe in the garage. I was not home at the time of the hail storm. Probably better off, as I would have cried witnessing the damage to my first baby.
I've never experienced this before, so I'll have to wait and see what my insurance company (State Farm) will do. Will be contacting them on Monday.
I feel your pain. My 2001 Acura CL Type S suffered the same fate. Luckily my 2014 TL was safe in the garage. I was not home at the time of the hail storm. Probably better off, as I would have cried witnessing the damage to my first baby.
I've never experienced this before, so I'll have to wait and see what my insurance company (State Farm) will do. Will be contacting them on Monday.
04-25-2014, 07:20 PM
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ALL metal stretches when dented. You dont remove the dent by pounding on the back side of the dent, you remove it by shrinking the high spot around the dent (think of a dent as how a crater in the ground looks, it will be higher around the rim of it) by pounding on the out side of the panel. PDR is much more finesse but they work the metal slowly back into shape as to not damage the paint.
05-23-2014, 04:40 PM
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I got my baby back after 3 weeks at the body shop!
Need to clean her off tonight before new pics. She looks great, my cousin did an excellent job. It was so nice to get back behind the wheel of a real car after driving my gf's camry
Need to clean her off tonight before new pics. She looks great, my cousin did an excellent job. It was so nice to get back behind the wheel of a real car after driving my gf's camry
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05-24-2014, 06:19 PM
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She's all cleaned up - looks like it never happened. I can't tell you how happy I am to have her back. We took quite a *spirited* drive earlier 
Enjoy the slideshow
http://s1049.photobucket.com/user/01...%20MORE%20HAIL
Enjoy the slideshow
http://s1049.photobucket.com/user/01...%20MORE%20HAIL
05-28-2014, 11:14 AM
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Thanks, its great to have her back, its true you don't know what you got 'till its gone. I did find just a couple issues that the shop is going to fix on Friday. The hood has a little vibration to it at high speed, my shop said its normal to need a little tweaking. I also found a few scratches on the bottom of the passenger door panel, very light but noticeable so they're going to buff those out.
She got an oil change and transmission fluid drain/fill yesterday and is running great! Only 28K miles on the ODO and with a truck on the way she's going to hopefully stay at less than 4K miles a year from here on out, hope to have her a very long time. I think in 10 years driving around a pristine looking 4G will garner a lot of appreciative nods
She got an oil change and transmission fluid drain/fill yesterday and is running great! Only 28K miles on the ODO and with a truck on the way she's going to hopefully stay at less than 4K miles a year from here on out, hope to have her a very long time. I think in 10 years driving around a pristine looking 4G will garner a lot of appreciative nods
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