Ok so I know theres a million storm related threads but I'm in the market for a new car and would love a bargain, I checked out pickles before the storm and nothing took my interest but i think now that a bunch of "write offs" are floating around it would be the perfect time to snap something up.

So far I know of Pickles and I will be going out there next wednesday to see whats going. http://www.pickles.com.au/damaged/au...maged&x=14&y=6

Is anyone aware of any other places around that will be selling large amounts of mechanically sound hail damaged cars? Around the 10k mark, so Subaru isn't really my thing. Maybe Ross's?

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I have heard Paceway Mitsubishi & Scarborough Toyota have already started their sales.

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I am going for a gander tonight. I know they are shut but at least I can have a good look around without some salesman trying to get my details and try and set me on a car that does not exist.

I think the trick will be to put a price on it that you are prepared to pay and not wory about the crap they come up with or whats on the pinky.

Brendon

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Pickles have started listing cars on their site for a storm auction, the first one is listed for the 13th of April.

Perth Damaged Vehicles

And the listing has been expanding, I checked 3 times today and each time there had been a considerable number of additions -

Perth Storm Affected Vehicles Listing for: Sale - Welshpool (WA) Tuesday 13/04/2010

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Im wondering if theres an auction that has more exotic cars that were unfortantey caught up also...

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To those considering a hail damaged car, take note of the following:

It will need to go through the pits at some stage.
If you want to insure it you will need to advise of its status which will require it to be roadworthy as such point one is visited again nonetheless.
You need to pick it up stupidly cheap to be an actual bargain. RRP, less the cost of repairs less at the very least 30%. THAT is a bargain, paying anything more is just putting a hole in your pocket.

A tainted car is still that, so it's gotta be an absolute bargain.

IMHO

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I have tried explaining this to people at work but all they are seeing is 2009 / 2010 cars with dollar signs in their eyes.

One bloke is about to have $5000 worth of repairs to 20 hail dents on his own car but thinks there is good value in buying a very heavily dented new car for his son that is $6000 cheaper than normal and doesnt seem to be able to compute that it wont be insured for what it would cost to repair, its not going to be worth much as a used car and could potentially be a pain to get registered. He reckons he can get it insured to cover any potential body problems that might come up in the future...LOL wut?!

so what is the difference between a 'storm damaged repairable write-off' and a 'storm damaged economic write-off' ?

Agree with you on that Jamie... Years ago you could go buy a damaged car at the auctions, fix it up and make a decent amount of money on it. Now you go there and the people bidding are mostly of "middle eastern decent" and bid against each other so much that some sell for close to what it is worth fixed.
I can see the hail auctions going the same way.