Chop the Roof?

[yrwei52]

Chop the roof?

Soooo....got a call from the repair place. We can wait 6-8 MONTHS for the repairs to be done in town...oooorrrrr....we can let them truck the CX-5 to another town to have the repairs done. All shops in town and close to to town are swamped. The repair place (same company) in the farther away town is not as busy so the repair place here is sending cars from here to there to have the repairs done sooner. I said "take it" so I drop the CX-5 off next Tuesday, pick up who knows what kind of rental car and then wait 3-4 weeks (hopefully that's all) for the repairs to be done over there and the car to be brought back to our city. Total repair cost is just over $6000.00 USD. Would have been worse if the glass had been broken but all of the glass survived.

Interesting note...the adjuster who looked at the CX-5 said immediately we would get a new roof on the house as well. He was right! He'd seen enough hail damage to know that if our CX-5 was that damaged then the roof took a pounding as well. Soooo...we'll get fresh parts on the CX-5 along with a new roof on the house.
The saga continues....
Bill

I saw a video showing how the car roof gets replaced. It's indeed only the sheet metal "skin" gets replaced. But the process still looks "scary" and the example doesn't even have the sunroof which definitely would add complexity of the job. My friend's hail damaged CX-5 also required a new roof and was told one-month working days. The long period of time without the car was the major reason he traded it in as is and got a new CX-5!

We've put on a new windshield for $870 and are waiting for a proper one-week break to let PDR guy fixing all the hail dents.

 

[craigo]

I saw a video showing how the car roof gets replaced. It's indeed only the sheet metal "skin" gets replaced. But the process still looks "scary" and the example doesn't even have the sunroof which definitely would add complexity of the job. My friend's hail damaged CX-5 also required a new roof and was told one-month working days. The long period of time without the car was the major reason he traded it in as is and got a new CX-5!

We've put on a new windshield for $870 and are waiting for a proper one-week break to let PDR guy fixing all the hail dents.

Mine took a month. It was the paint process that took the longest, actually. Probably because they can only paint one car at a time in most shops.

 

[Lama]

I got the roof replace on my forester XT 2005 after a major hail storm. Nobody can tell after the replacement that the roof was chop and change.

 

[Chris_Top_Her]

Soooo....got a call from the repair place. We can wait 6-8 MONTHS for the repairs to be done in town...oooorrrrr....we can let them truck the CX-5 to another town to have the repairs done. All shops in town and close to to town are swamped. The repair place (same company) in the farther away town is not as busy so the repair place here is sending cars from here to there to have the repairs done sooner. I said "take it" so I drop the CX-5 off next Tuesday, pick up who knows what kind of rental car and then wait 3-4 weeks (hopefully that's all) for the repairs to be done over there and the car to be brought back to our city. Total repair cost is just over $6000.00 USD. Would have been worse if the glass had been broken but all of the glass survived.

Interesting note...the adjuster who looked at the CX-5 said immediately we would get a new roof on the house as well. He was right! He'd seen enough hail damage to know that if our CX-5 was that damaged then the roof took a pounding as well. Soooo...we'll get fresh parts on the CX-5 along with a new roof on the house.
The saga continues....
Bill

If you are lucky you will get a 55mpg Mirage.

 

[ijaen]

What is your justification for this claim? This is a common repair for hail dents. Structural issues are more common in collisions where metal supports are warped and stressed. In this case they are just taking off the panel and putting a new one in. Whatever body shop his insurance recommends will be able to do this.

You are going to replace a part that is one piece by cutting and welding a new piece. While welding can be successfully done in cars like a Bentley where they do weld to roof in place it takes a very skilled worker to do it properly. That is why I said that the shop must be a very good one.

 

[minnesotaart]

We've put on a new windshield for $870...

Why do you have to pay for windshield replacement? On my policy, my comprehensive coverage include full (i.e., free!) glass coverage. Different in Texas?