2016 F-150 Supercrew FX4, 5.0L, XLT 301A, 33K miles
So yesterday we went to visit my wife's family in Alto, Texas. We started getting tornado warnings on our phone. Since the house we were in was just built to replace the last one that was blown away in a tornado. We were in a pretty wide open area, so we went outside to look and see if we could see anything coming our way. I took these photos of a cloud nearing us rapidly and you could hear something that I thought might be a tornado.
If you ever see this cloud coming at you, run!
Later I realized that sound was not a tornado, but hail hitting the field in front of us. I told the wife to take shelter in the house with the kids. My stepdaughter needed her medicine, so I went to grab it before I went back in the house. I couldn't find it at first glance, so I jumped in my truck to search since it was raining fairly hard. All of a sudden my truck started getting pounded by the biggest hail I have ever seen. It broke my windshield almost immediately and it sounded like my truck was getting hit with bullets. I thought they were going to bust the windows out and start pelting me for a second. Luckily it only lasted about thirty seconds and nobody was outside or got hurt. The damage was done to 11 cars at that one residence though.
My truck suffered the broken windshield, six dents in the hood, countless on the roof, four dents on the toolbox lid, one dent on the roof line above the rear passenger side door, and a busted third brake light.
So yeah, it's a bummer, but I do have esurance with coverage maxed out and only a $250 comprehensive deductible and vehicle match rental coverage. So what do you guys think the damage estimate will be? Could it possibly be worth it to try PDR and avoid insurance to avoid the associated depreciation of a carfax hit? If not, do you think they'll try to fix it right or will it possible be a bondo type of deal? What about the toolbox, any chance they'll fix that or just pay me to replace? I was looking to dump it for a bed cover anyway.
I hate having to get body work, I've been extremely careful with this truck. Always park it way out in the boondocks to keep from getting door dings. To date it's only had a couple of scratches that mysteriously appeared on the bumper while we were on the beach in Destin. No dents at all until yesterday.
I've got a good body shop that I trust already, so that helps.
So yesterday we went to visit my wife's family in Alto, Texas. We started getting tornado warnings on our phone. Since the house we were in was just built to replace the last one that was blown away in a tornado. We were in a pretty wide open area, so we went outside to look and see if we could see anything coming our way. I took these photos of a cloud nearing us rapidly and you could hear something that I thought might be a tornado.
If you ever see this cloud coming at you, run!
Later I realized that sound was not a tornado, but hail hitting the field in front of us. I told the wife to take shelter in the house with the kids. My stepdaughter needed her medicine, so I went to grab it before I went back in the house. I couldn't find it at first glance, so I jumped in my truck to search since it was raining fairly hard. All of a sudden my truck started getting pounded by the biggest hail I have ever seen. It broke my windshield almost immediately and it sounded like my truck was getting hit with bullets. I thought they were going to bust the windows out and start pelting me for a second. Luckily it only lasted about thirty seconds and nobody was outside or got hurt. The damage was done to 11 cars at that one residence though.
My truck suffered the broken windshield, six dents in the hood, countless on the roof, four dents on the toolbox lid, one dent on the roof line above the rear passenger side door, and a busted third brake light.
So yeah, it's a bummer, but I do have esurance with coverage maxed out and only a $250 comprehensive deductible and vehicle match rental coverage. So what do you guys think the damage estimate will be? Could it possibly be worth it to try PDR and avoid insurance to avoid the associated depreciation of a carfax hit? If not, do you think they'll try to fix it right or will it possible be a bondo type of deal? What about the toolbox, any chance they'll fix that or just pay me to replace? I was looking to dump it for a bed cover anyway.
I hate having to get body work, I've been extremely careful with this truck. Always park it way out in the boondocks to keep from getting door dings. To date it's only had a couple of scratches that mysteriously appeared on the bumper while we were on the beach in Destin. No dents at all until yesterday.
I've got a good body shop that I trust already, so that helps.
