What If Your Car Has Hail Damage? What To Do And How It Impacts Your Lifestyle

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Storms are highly associated with the fall of hails. Moreover, on the eve of climate change, Australia has experienced some unexpected severe hail storms in the recent past. Hails come in different sizes and can even be as big as 150mm. However, regardless of the sises, hails stands a chance to cause damage to any object they land on. The force and momentum that hails fall in may cause detrimental effects upon landing to any object with soft material.

Most cars are made up of light roofing material and therefore much susceptible to hail damage. When hail falls on the car, it may leave dents all over. These dents vary in sizes depending on the hails falling at a time. Prevention of hail damage can only be achieved through covering your car parking area or keeping your car in a car-room during storms. Hail may, however, fall unexpectedly overnight with your car uncovered.

Personal automobiles mean a lot to the citizens of Australia because they are the best convenient means of transport. Therefore, hail damage can really impact on the schedules and plans of travel of the car owner. Some automobile owners identify with their automobiles very closely and therefore damage can have huge lifestyle impacts.

Prevention of your car against hail is the best option to avoid incurring the hail damage costs. It is sometimes hard to achieve prevention of hail damage when driving. Nonetheless, there is always a way out in fixing your hail damaged car. The following steps are recommended during fixing of your hail damaged automobile. 

1.         Check whether your car insurance covers hail damage. Most third parties' insurance does not insure against hail damage. However, comprehensive insurance cover in Australia covers hail damage for your car. Therefore, check depending on your insurance whether you are covered.

2.         If covered then report the damage to your insurance company and have an assessor assess the level of damage and associated repair costs estimates.

3.         Your insurer should then hire a hail damage repair expert to repair the car. Non-paint repairing gadgets are used to repair the dents. Other conventional methods are applied where needed to restore your car to the best condition.

4.         If the cost of your hail damage repair equals or is close to the value of the car, the insurer may consider to write-off the car.

5.         If you are not insured to hail damage, you take personal responsibility in the repair cost of your damaged car.

Cars come with reasonable price tags and prevention of hail damage should, therefore, be a prime consideration. Nonetheless, in the case where the damage occurs, seeking professional repair services is recommendable.

Novus Auto Glass Company offers perfect windscreen repair from hail damage. They have mobile services and can repair your car from any point in Australia. For more information, you can contact Novus Auto Glass.

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Created on Jun 6th 2020 05:01. Viewed 201 times.

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