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My car was parked outside my house and its been snowing a bit and it just started raining yesterday. When snow and rain come together it makes blocks of ice and starts sliding down off the roofs. So yeah this is the outcome , and the worst part the insurance company wont cover it!!! http://imgur.com/a/oE89H

O no

Ouch!

Although the bonnet / hood dent is quite large, from the photo it looks as if the paint isn't damaged, in which case Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) might be an option. Do you have PDR in Iceland? A skilled PDR operative could probably remove that, and it should be considerably cheaper than a new hood with the associated painting costs.

Check out some of the PDR videos on YouTube to get an idea of the types of damage that can be repaired using this method. Here's one (there are many more you can view);

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMdKLES7bc

Amazed by that paintless repair. I'd have thought that the metal would have stretched when first damaged preventing a perfect repair.

haflidi3 - does your insurance not cover for windscreen replacement (perhaps with a small excess to pay)?

SRGTD wrote:Ouch!

Although the bonnet / hood dent is quite large, from the photo it looks as if the paint isn't damaged, in which case Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) might be an option. Do you have PDR in Iceland? A skilled PDR operative could probably remove that, and it should be considerably cheaper than a new hood with the associated painting costs.

Check out some of the PDR videos on YouTube to get an idea of the types of damage that can be repaired using this method. Here's one (there are many more you can view);

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMdKLES7bc

Im not quite sure if there are here in iceland. I will be checking tomorrow. The windscreen is being replaced and i will be picking the car up after an hour or so. The insurance did cover that part luckily.

plumpton wrote:Gutting. Sorry to be reading this.

Is it worth trying your house insurance?

I am going to be checking that out if that would work. The windscreen is being replaced and that was covered by the insurance , im just going to be hard on them about the hood.

That is a bit annoying, means that you need to take care where you park outside in winter? Do the buildings in Iceland not have boards on the edge of the roofs to stop that happening, it could have be a lot worse, it could have landed on you, and if that had happening, I don't think that you would have been in a good enough physical state to tell us about it.

I do remember at work once, when a faulty phase separator valve on a liquid nitrogen main line caused a HUGE build up of ice to form, someone, who should have known better, broke it free with a hammer - and it slide down the roof gently and landed on a car parked below, but it did not do as much damage as that - still it did cause a bit of excitement!

Should've said it was a deer if they weren't gonna cover it lol

Willni wrote:Should've said it was a deer if they weren't gonna cover it lol

haha there are no deer's in iceland.

haflidij wrote:

Willni wrote:Should've said it was a deer if they weren't gonna cover it lol

haha there are no deer's in iceland.

Even better they won't have to go look for it