Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Fires in Australia

I just spent an hour or so putting nearly a whole roll of Gorilla tape over the holes in the roof so hopefully the car is water proof. I counted 50 dents on the boot, 25 on the panel that covers the roof and 90 on the bonnet, I am sure once I wash the car they will be easier to see and there will be more plus I know there are a lot down one side of the car. I tried to check the website for the paint less dent repair places that the insurance company booked the car into and I got a 509 too busy, I expect everyone is having a look to see where their car is booked into. I did look earlier and from memory it was $40 to $80 per dent, say 200 dents and that is somewhere between $8,000 to $16,000. I expect those dent repair places are only economical if there are only a few dents, maybe it would be cheaper to repair the car by conventional panel beating methods. Unfortunately I expect it could be a write off which is a shame as it is a really fun car to drive, my son and his friends enjoyed sitting in the back as toddlers (and older) so I am/was expecting my grandchild to love it as well when she is a little bit older.

Interesting that the bushfires will not really affect the economy, I expect the auto industry will be similar even though with Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne badly hit there are hundreds of thousands of damaged cars, I expect there was about 2000 cars just in that car park with my car and many cars had smashed windows and rear hatches filled with hail and rain. I doubt any car in that car park did not get damage.

Watching the stock market over the last month I remember a day when Bega Cheese dropped about 10% one day but other shares made up more so from memory the day was overall positive. I do wonder with the bushfires followed by this storm how the insurance companies will go, maybe drop as well but probably not a huge affect over the whole market.

The storm probably only lasted maybe 30 minutes of golf ball hail stones and heavy rain but caused a lot of damage. Ignoring the storm it was a nice day - I drove to work and back home with the roof off.