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Parked up at Glenshee for a hill run.
Conditions were somewhat windy, and the car park is made of sand/gravel type stuff.
On return to the car ~3.5 hours later, was met with this:
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Back window and door mirrors smashed, pretty well all panels and glass thoroughly stonechipped. Inside of windscreen chipped.
Arse.
Ouch!
😯
Just how windy was it?
ouch. heard of dust storms trashing cars in iceland but not in scotland...
Someone land a helicopter ?
Friends have had two cars written off in America by hail damage.
Never seen anything like that in the UK. What do the insurance people say?
Ouch!
Reminds me of when I used to work in a food factory, one of the managers turned up in the tray washing bay with his new Jag and grabbed a pressure washer to clean it, turned out it wasn't a pressure washer but a steam lance..
It turned silver from the front wing to the rear quarter on the drivers side and British racing green everywhere else..
It would have been gusting well over 45mph up there yesterday.
I thought it was bad enough driving down to Edinburgh on the A9,then I saw one of these coming down a slip road. 😯
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Very brave(or stupid)
Wow, if it wasn't for the picture I'd have struggled to believe that!
someone doing donuts in the car park?
I was just about to suggest exactly the same as Jam Bo
It was a bit breezy @ Glenmore, with record wind speeds recorded on Cairngorm summit.
Made the Triathlon swim in Loch Morlich look like fun 😯
[url= https://www.wunderground.com/history/wmo/03065/2016/8/7/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Cairngorm&req_state=&req_statename=United+Kingdom&reqdb.zip=00000&reqdb.magic=1&reqdb.wmo=03065 ]It was a *tad* breezy up here yesterday.[/url]
Do bear in mind that if yesterday occurred south of Watford, we would have a national emergency being declared and social media in 'Oh. My. Gawd.' meltdown.
Unlucky OP.
I got back from a ride to find my car covered in small branches - no damage, but a reminder of how windy it was.
Do bear in mind that if yesterday occurred south of Watford, we would have a national emergency being declared and social media in 'Oh. My. Gawd.' meltdown.
you'd think the wind would have blown that chip off your shoulder. 😉
No chance. It's too big. 😆
Not the same, but I was canoeing on a canal in London yesterday. The wind was making things tricky but what I really noticed was the way that the wind was picking up the dust on the gravelly towpath and blowing it in big dusty clouds down the path, surprisingly big ones, and that was in London.
Must have been horrendous in That Scotland
Wow !
I seen on countryfile weather, 115 mph on Cairngorm.
Reminds me of the time we got down to the Glenshee car park to find the University minibus windscreen smashed in. It being February, the driver had to wear goggles and balaclava all the way back to Aberdeen.
I got 37 wind-assisted PRs on my road ride yesterday. Unfortunately so did everyone else, so no KOMs...
[s]"a sticker will cover that"[/s] 😳
Windy-enough to blow a 17,000 tonne oil rig ashore 😯
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😯 looks photo shopped. Incredible that wind could rip it from it's moorings. The surface area is fairly small.
it wasnt moored. it was on tow.
It was under tow and go became detached from it's tug boat.The surface area is fairly small.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-37007656
Ah. that makes more sense.
The Transocean Winner was being towed from Norway to Malta.
That's been blown & pushed quite some way!
I drove through Glenshee yesterday, and it was like going through a hail storm, except the hail was stones...
In-laws have a dimpled Volvo estate after gobstopper-sized hailstones fell in France the night we left a few summers ago. They were big enough to smash roof tiles, let alone dent a few panels! The garden furniture fared less well.
In-laws have a dimpled Volvo estate after gobstopper-sized hailstones fell in France
More aero. #marginalgains
Wow, I'd seen that Glenlivet were advising to stay of the trails due to dangerous wind speeds.
That's pretty stunning.
At OP 😮
I like this pic from the Beeb article
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Captions please!
What do the insurance people say?
We won't be finding out - it would need a respray, new light units and most of the glass replaced. It's 10 years old, so they'd just write it off.
She's had it since new and it's a cracking wee car, so worth more to us as it is than a couple of grand or whatever they value it at.
I'll replace the rear window and the mirrors and be done with it.
Could try and go the cat C buyback route (did that with my old 90 after I bent the chassis), but it's probably not worth losing the no claims over.
Check out the stonechippage, mmmmmmmm:
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It'll be more aerodynamic now - like a golf ball.
New rear glass and you're good to go.
Can you use the windscreen/glass cover of your insurance policy to replace the rear window? That shouldn't affect your no-claims.
Captions please
Is that the pub opening?
No way! Unbelievable.
My insurance allows me to replace a window without losing no claims but I have to pay £100 excess.
Yea the insurance is covering the rear window, £75 excess.
Not the end of the world in the scheme of things, never would have expected that kind of damage though!
RE captions:
'Shit, there's the press! Better look busy...'
I see no ships!
That's because you're looking inland you fool!
I can see my house from here
OP Ouch ! Mini tornado ? We get them quite a bit down South, have seen a few whilst out sailing - impressive and slightly terrifying at the same time. Car looks in very good knick, new window and some t-cut (metallic ?) and its good to go
captions please
More of a tabloid headline
RIGiculous
Coastguard can't find missing oil rig
A spokesman said "we sent our man out to find the missing oil rig. After an extensive binocular sweep of the area he was only able to find a Derek but unfortunately that one wasn't missing"
Ravenous pick up devours half wit