Fuck Hail

 

Agree completely!

 

i guess you guys got hailed on?

 

About an hour ago. I've never been hailed on before. Sucks.

 

Pwned.

Sorry man.

 

One bright point, if damage is serious, the car maybe totaled. New car time! (note a ball pin hammer approximates hail damage we!ll)

 

hail just causes body damage no?? that can be fixed easily right? i do not encounter hail much.

 

I have a co-worker that turned in a rental car in St. Louis that was beginning to look like a golf ball. St. Louis hail is nasty. St. Louis weather in general can be nasty.

 

sorry to hear about that. check with insurance. I got 'bout nickel size last night but car was garaged.

 

This stuff looked like ice cubes from an ice cube tray. No garage at work. Oh well. The dents are not that deep and mostly on the trunk lid (I dont think there are any on the hood). I've heard if they are minor they may pop out with some sunlight. Either way, fuck hail.

 

Here in Colorado, (NW of Denver towards Boulder) we saw hail that was almost an inch in diameter or so for about 20 minutes, you can bet I was covering my car ASAP! No damage though so that's good. THing is, people around here have so many hail and snow and similar claims, insurance is horrendous...

 

Here?? Hell no... I don't want to see it...

 

People in Texas call a hailstorm "payday". They pull their cars out of the garage when they see one coming. I, too, got caught in a hailstorm (like ice cubes out of a tray) and they actually use heat to pop the little dents back out. If that doesn't work, they sand them out, and the heat from the sanding pops 'em out. But that requires, of course, a new paint job.

 

What about all the nice new cars on dealer lots? What happens when those all get hail damage? Do they just file one big insurance claim? I heard some of them go to auction houses and sell much cheaper.

 

Well the dealers can do acouple of things if they get hit bad enough they can file a claim. Usually they get someone and come and do Paintless dent removal it works really well. Just like for door dings but the roof and hood ect. Also they have a sale, The estimate what it would take to fix it and mark that price off the car and let the consumer get it fixed usually at there body shop for a really goood "deal".

 

You guys are getting worked up about NOTHING... Any good dent guy can "pop" them out in about the same time it takes for you and I to get a cup of coffee. The service is usually 100% covered by insurance. Rates vary from as little as $100 to as much as $1200 (on Benz's and others with harder to "pop" dents). On a honda (aka this car), it's probably a simple 2 hour/$300 job...PS - My brother runs his own dent business and sometimes travels to hail locations to do as many as 20 cars a day for dealerships

 

We had a really bad storm in North St. Louis County a couple of years ago and some of the dealerships ended up just selling the cars at ridiculous prices (the storm was really bad, left a lot of big dents all over these cars).

 

hundreds upon hundreds of tiny dents? in 2 hours?

 

I got caught in a hailstorm in SD about 10 years ago in a brand new (3 week old) grand cherokee that I was using to tow a (new) tent trailer on a 6 week cross country trip. The hail shattered the windshield and rear taillights, put the aforementioned hundres upon hundreds upon hundreds of dings on every panel of the vehicle and tore the rubber off of the windshield wipers. The trailer fared worse. The hail tore holes through the fiberglass and shredded the vinyl side covers into swiss cheese. The winds with the hail storm also bent the frame of the trailer side beds so that you could no longer open or close it.

Even with all that, the Jeep was nowhere near totaled. Got lots of new body panels though :-)

Worked up about nothing...I think not.

 

Paintless is the best fix. I had my 04 MDX hit in Nov with 354 hail stones and 5 days old. It hurt. It looked awful. I went to Springfield Mo to the best of the best-for $2500 all 354 dings removed by paintless dent removal in two days. What they cannot work out they pull out with sticky glue pullers. Amazing stuff and I was so very pleased. Some in my town of Tulsa wanted to repaint!!! What a mistake that would be.
So do not despair. Paintless is the best repair and no one will ever know--unlike crappy paint work. body shops used to like it when they were the only option in fixing. Those days are long long gone.

 

What is the name of this place. I am willing to drive to Springfield if you feel that highly about them.

 

You must have never been in a hail storm or had your car hit by one. In 1991 my 89 nissan 240sx was hit by the larget and most expensive hail storm in history. My car looked like someone walked around it for an hour and pounded it with a hammer. My winshield was smashed as well. No one could do 20 cars in a day when they are in this condition, maybe when there are a few dents but not when it is hit by a trude hail storm. In 1991 it cost $4500 to fix my car and it took several weeks as there were thousands having their cars fixed. Almost every person in Denver was hit and most people had to have the roofs on their houses replaced due to the damage.

 

Well, I'm getting all my dents removed paintless (my cousin's in the business) except for the rail above the doors. The guy says it's double steel so he can't get in there to pop them out. So he uses these glue pullers to pull the dents out, and it looks good straight on. But once you look at it from the side, it looks like a mountain range. He says if it was his car, he would take it to a body shop and just have them do that rail. I was concerned because this rail starts at the bottom of the windsheild and goes to the back of the car and is the same as the part as the wheel well below the trunk. Big piece. He said they will only sand some of it and blend the rest. Makes me nervous, but he says it will look better than he can do and if I get a good body shop I won't even be able to tell. I hate to do it, but I guess I'm going to. We'll see how it turns out.

 

im from texas, never heard search a thing as a "payday" when hail hits, what kind of idiot would want their new car damage? you claim insurance, insurance would go up, and if you have a used car most likely you dont have full coverage, and you will have to pay the damages yourself.. So i dont know why it would consider payday

 

Bowling Green KY got a bad hail storm about 7 years ago and it totalled 20K+ cars.