Pics of Hail Damage

[Nismo_Freak]

I just pointed out the ones that where visable in the pictures... on the hood and roof double the number pointed out and thats about the number of dents. Decklid has 4 good ones in it. Sides of the car have a few craters but didnt come out on the photos. I got a few chips where it hit too as well as knicks in the glass.

[greg_atlanta]

Yikes! Get a quote to fix?

My last car (90 Camry V6) got pummeled by hail, but wasn't worth fixing. Learned my lesson that your car is only as good as where you park it.

[ser chicken]

where do you live!?! holy ****!!!!!

sorry man... thats sucks! hope everything works out

-pete s

[Nismo_Freak]

Austin, Tx

[PalmerWMD]

Thats bad..

Do you have full coverage?

Fred...

[AZhitman]

That's how I bought my Suburban for $15K less than invoice - hail damage (in Fort Worth).

Looks like you might want to find a "Paintless Dent Repair" person to sleep with.:boink

Just keep telling yourself, "It's for the good of the car... It'll be over soon.":D

[ninjak84]

OUCH!insurance hopefully will get on that... but insuarance agents are worse than AIDS when it comes to screwing you over, so good luck! youll need it!

[Bandit240]

Damn thats why my car gets parked in a 20ft container. Plus the drives window doesnt go all the way up and we have had break in out here. Shes all locked up in the container and i ahve all 3 keys to open it

[alexhho]

I hate to revive a 2 years old post, but the same thing just happened to my J30, and I was wondering if there's a way for me to fix the hood myself? My hood is the only pannel that got damaged. There are some 20 or so 1/4" dents on it. Thanks for the advice.

[HIGHLIFE1]

sand it down and use fiberglass body filler and repaint

J

[SmithSR]

Holy Thread Revival!!1

20 dents?? New hood, here I come. That'll be too labor-intensive to repair while still trying to be cost-effective. Either way it's going to get expensive!

[GEO]

tsk tsk

[andrave]

hey try that painless dent removal, I know they have it in texas. if you go to houston area SCCA site they usually have an ad up for it.... but it would probably be cheaper just to get a new hood.that sucks that it happened in austin, I'm moving to texas, if that happened to my car I'd be sol, just crying... boo hoo hooothat would suck...a lot of the apartments I've been looking at have covered garages.

[Jesda]

Bandit...what container? A giant ice box? Im curious, since my Q is parked out doors.

[Mr1der]

gah, looks like you parked it on a driving range!

[jdmfreak]

Damn that sucks a lot. Good thing there's not too much hail out here in NY.

[Mr1der]

who the hell dug this thread up?

call a good suction cup man, perhaps he can help you.

[andrave]

alexho apologized for reviving it but needed the help.do you read much?

[jdmfreak]

I highly doubt it.

[alexhho]

Yeah! I do apologize for reviving the thread, but I needed the help. I took a look under the aluminum hood, and there is this heat-proof sheet that is attached to the hood by a bunch of plastic buttons. Is there a way to remove the heat-proof sheet without breaking these buttons? I just don't know where to buy replacements for them if I ended up breaking them. Thanks for all the inputs, guys.

[180crafter]

Well, ive got old people and illegal drivers, you have hail and deer...

[alexhho]

My wife and I moving to Orlando in a few months, so I guess the old and indigents will be our problems as well.

[Badfish]

Ive still got decent hail damage on my Cavalier from when I lived in Tallahassee. You'd think you wouldnt get hail in Florida.......

[j-z]

^^whys that? the hood is steel, not aluminum. those clips come off easy. theres a special tool made to remover them called a trim removal tool, but you can just stick some needle nose pliers in there or something and they pop right out. glazing putty works wonders for hail damage. if yall think nismo freaks car is bad, you shouldve seen the hail damage on a volvo i repaired. youre better off filling the dents than getting paintless removal done. and dont be one bit sorry for reviving a thead. thats what the search feature is for.

[psychic_mechanic]

I can't beleive I'm going to say this......

What about a CF or ricey fiberglass hood?

[Nismo_Freak]

I got a CF hood.

[andrave]

why not painless dent removal?depending on how much it costs to have it done, it beats the **** out of fiberglass body filler.I've done it both ways and I'd rather pop the dent out than deal with bondo and repspraying.

[jdmfreak]

Whats wrong with a CF hood?

[andrave]

dents>gayness

[Nismo_Freak]

dents>gayness

Whats "gay" about removing about 25 lbs. of worthless weight and about 4 hrs. labor worth of dents that PDR can't cover because of the under skeleton. Even if it was "gay" I don't care to hear your ignorant post, didn't your mother teach you that you don't open your mouth if you don't got something good to say?