Buying a VW? 30,000 were just damaged in Germany...

[MotoCreations]

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A severe hailstorm over the weekend damaged up to 30,000 brand new Volkswagen cars awaiting delivery to domestic and foreign customers, the company reported from its headquarters in Wolfsburg Friday. The hailstorm struck the VW assembly plant at Emden on the North Sea coast on Sunday. The vehicles were standing outdoors, many awaiting shipment to customers abroad and others ready for collection by German clients.

VW spokesman Christoph Adomat said that there was as yet no estimate of the total damage, although a German press report suggested the figure could run to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Adomat said all 30,000 vehicles would be rigorously inspected for damage, and 100 VW staff drawn from all over Germany were working overtime to complete the task.

The vehicles are passed through a special light tunnel that detects even minor damage.

“No car will leave unless it is 100-per-cent free of damage,” Adomat said.

The spokesman said VW was insured against hail damage.

[TiNi]

good info...

they were insured, and if they make good on the wind tunnel inspection, i doubt they'd release damaged goods... do you?

[DoubleEagle]

I remember a few years back, a hail storm went through a major city not too far from where I live. It hit a BMW Dealership and a Hummer Dealership pretty hard. I happened to be at the BMW dealership and one of the Mgt. people took me to an area where there was a team that goes all over the US and repairs hail damaged cars. I was told that there was about $750,000 worth of damage covered by insurance. The team worked with special mirrors and lights plus tools for taking out dents.

It was a slow process to get a car's exterior back to where you couldn't tell it had been marked.

I think the Hummer Dealership had like over 50 damaged H2s.

[slowpoke13]

I wonder if you could pick up a cosmetically "dinged" one for cheap...

[Grampa]

just name them Golf balls

[darylbowden]

When I lived in Texas, they used to have "hail sales" all the time.  They would mark down the cars with hail damage pretty significantly.  Of course, who wants to buy a brand new car with a bunch of dents in it?

[Buckethead]

When I lived in Texas, they used to have "hail sales" all the time.  They would mark down the cars with hail damage pretty significantly.  Of course, who wants to buy a brand new car with a bunch of dents in it?

Apparently my dad did. When I was little we bought an '87 Buick LeSabre from a hail sale in SW Kansas. Dad drove it until the kids were old enough to drive, then the "Dimpled Darling," as it was affectionately known, became the kids' beater-car. Great high school car.

Last I knew, my dad's nurse was still driving it. Never did get those dents fixed.

[Drunken Monkey]

just name them Golf balls

I <3 BP

[squidwood]

Hummer H2 with dents in it?I have never seen one with dents  because they never go off road around here.Stupid soccer moms use them for status, not taking off into the woods and using a 4wd for what it was built for.My Suburban is a farm truck, with dents all over it.I used it last month to pull 9 tree stumps.Great truck, dent's an' all!