What the Hail Happened?

[Sawin]

Dr_Fwd and I were caught in the gumball size hail storm yesterday. He freaked out like a lil girl, cause I was 'intrumental' driving w/ my GPS. I figured, everyone else pulled over, I just had to watch my gps where to turn and so on. Visibility was less 5 feet. That was fun... watching him shrieking that is.

nice

[HoneyBadger]

My plane was landing in it yesterday. As we were taxiing, some smaller pea-sized hail was accumulating on the tarmac at DIA. We flew all the way up into Wyoming and then came around the back side of the storm to land, but we still caught a little of it.

[Circuits]

I work in Centennial, and we got grape-sized hail in enough quantity that it's still on the ground in drifts here this morning, but not big enough to damage my car out in the parking lot. Just rain on the house in springs.

Sure made the drive home yesterday evening "interesting"

[Irving]

My wife and I got caught in that hail storm on I25 on the way home to the Springs. It was hailing so hard I to stop because I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me! Hundreds of dents all over the car and a broken drivers side mirror. Now I have to call the insurance co and argue with them. I'm still fighting them over my Suburban that was stolen 6 months ago.

What's the argue about? This storm is already labeled as a CAT, so there shouldn't be any question about whether there was hail or not.

[Mtn.man]

I have a # of anti Hail wear for sale.

[Cman]

Originally Posted by Cman My wife and I got caught in that hail storm on I25 on the way home to the Springs. It was hailing so hard I to stop because I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me! Hundreds of dents all over the car and a broken drivers side mirror. Now I have to call the insurance co and argue with them. I'm still fighting them over my Suburban that was stolen 6 months ago.
What's the argue about? This storm is already labeled as a CAT, so there shouldn't be any question about whether there was hail or not.

The argument will be over the value of the LHS. I have custom paint - platinum pearl flames, 300 M performance suspension, rear spoiler, custom wood trim. I added these to the policy but this insurances co ignores these in it's appraisals of the cars value. I put $17,000 in parts into my Suburban that was stolen and they valued it at $2.900. I've been fighting that for the last 6 months. Bobs of Colorado apprised it at
$8300 plus 20% for the add-ons. As soon as this over I'm changing ins co!

[Irving]

Ahh, I see now. Good luck!

[Sawin]

Originally Posted by Cman My wife and I got caught in that hail storm on I25 on the way home to the Springs. It was hailing so hard I to stop because I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me! Hundreds of dents all over the car and a broken drivers side mirror. Now I have to call the insurance co and argue with them. I'm still fighting them over my Suburban that was stolen 6 months ago.
What's the argue about? This storm is already labeled as a CAT, so there shouldn't be any question about whether there was hail or not.

The argument will be over the value of the LHS. I have custom paint - platinum pearl flames, 300 M performance suspension, rear spoiler, custom wood trim. I added these to the policy but this insurances co ignores these in it's appraisals of the cars value. I put $17,000 in parts into my Suburban that was stolen and they valued it at $2.900. I've been fighting that for the last 6 months. Bobs of Colorado apprised it at
$8300 plus 20% for the add-ons. As soon as this over I'm changing ins co!

Would you feel comfortable telling us which insurance co that is so we can avoid them or cancel ourselves, if we use them too? If you'd rather wait until it's all sorted and finalized, I understand.

[Irving]

Would you feel comfortable telling us which insurance co that is so we can avoid them or cancel ourselves, if we use them too? If you'd rather wait until it's all sorted and finalized, I understand.

What he is experiencing is very likely not unique to any one insurance company.

[NFATrustGuy]

Is it possible to buy "stated value" insurance on a car? I don't have any exceptional cars right now, but I have in the past. With airplanes, you tell the insurance company what your plane is worth (stated value) and they either accept it and will sell you the insurance, or they'll say no. If the plane is totaled, they pay stated value without a fuss. I imagine it'd be more expensive with cars, but I'd buy it for the right car.

Anyone?