We are having a terrible wind storm today, my sons portable basketball hoop blew onto the car this morning. I heard it from inside the house, I KNEW right away what is was.

 

Someones Christmas at the body shop just got a little better. Any guesses on the repair cost??

 

hmm..probably something like 500 bucks or so. Gotta remove, sand, repair and repaint the whole hood.

 

Lovely! Merry Christmas to me!!

 

Must have been one hell of a windstorm to blow one of those things down...do you have the kind that you fill the base with sand/water??

 

Well be glad it wasn't a tree or something like that!

 

Yeah, it was filled with water.....at one time. Apparently it leaked out. We haven't played b-ball since Sept. I'd say I found out the hard way.

 

Id recommend sand in it and then 1 or 2 more sand bags on top of the base

 

Dang man.

 

Lmao i'd say its a bit late for recommendations

 

Try Schaeffer auto body. They are good. Talk to Suntrup Nissan. I think they suggest tanks auto body. I usually go to gapsch carstar

 

Man the Midwest down to Texas had some hella winds yesterday and part of today, we have lots of wind damage down here in Dallas as a result.

 

That's one of those sick feelings you get when you hear it and know exactly what it is. sorry man

 

Well, no one has said it yet but, It could have been worse.

 

You are right, they just showed a car crushed by a fallen tree down here on the news at 10....

 

^^1awesomemax won^^

 

See..like I said..could have been worse lol

 

True, I guess it's not as bad as a tree falling on it. On the bright side, I CANNOT see it while I am driving. THAT would kill me!

 

Heard that. Some truck or suv did a hit and run on my parked maxima. I could see the hood pushed up while driving. Found a new hood the next day. It's installed, but primer black.
Good luck with yours.

 

dude this sucks. this is actually why (when I can) I don't park near trees or telephone poles/etc. its been really crazy windy around here so I feel like somethin is gonna fall....

thats good you dont see it while driving though, that'd def motivate you to replace it ASAP

 

It is times like this that I am thankful my Maxima stays in the garage except when in use, and I try not to use it when the weather is very bad.

We have had to keep our flags down the last few days. Winds gusting over 40 MPH tend to shorten the life of flags, even when they are at half-staff, where we had ours.

We were trying to finish our Christmas shopping Friday evening, had to park very far away (pavilion was mobbed), and we had to hold onto parked cars to make headway into the bitterly cold 30 MPH wind while trying to walk from the car to the stores.

Grandfather Mountain in western North Carolina recorded a wind gust of 84 MPH that same day.

We put our basketball goal on a 6" X 6" square steel post buried four feet into concrete, with the post itself filled with concrete in order to prevent vibration. The downside of this overbuilding is that any vehicle accidentally backing into our post while turning around requires major repairs, as there is absolutely no 'give' in that post.

I would think Amerikaner83 is probably fairly close with his $500 estimate. The entire hood must be sanded and repainted. Higher 'class' body shops may ask more than $500. Sorry about your damage, especially coming at Christmas time.

 

Wow. I'm sorry to hear that this had happened to your car.

I also try not to park my car under a tree/pole, but mostly to avoid bird $h1t.