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If hail dented your vehicle, I urge you to look into the "paintless dent repair" industry. One such vendor is Dent Wizard.

It is not inexpensive, but a far cry from the cost of component replacement.

If you have insurance, let them worry about it...

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Quite a bit of my estimate was using PDR because of the type of dings, and it still totalled to $6600 (and 2 weeks in the shop, glad I got rental coverage). Trunk and hood have to be replaced, no glass work but alot of labor to remove and install stuff that has to be repaired. It's pretty impressive.

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I have many small dings but the weirdest thing was that my compass went crazy. Both axis flipped so our drive from St Louis to New England was south and west. My truck was parked at the Hampton Inn - Downtown which had elevators that lost their mind after the storm, randomly stopping at floors most of the night.

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I just got the estimate to fix my 2004 Pontiac Vibe. $4100.00 :ahh:
I had over 200 dents in the hood alone. They say it will have to be replaced.

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For my 2006 Honda Civic, it's coming to $4600. New hood and new trunk lid because of the dent quantity and depth, new plastic roof trim bits, dent removal (some conventional, some PDR) to basically every body panel except the driver door. Two weeks in the shop. The sides weren't all that bad, possibly because I was parked between a van and a trailer.

Three cheers for comprehensive insurance.

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Ghaaa! $4600, $4100, $6600.... OMG!

I wonder if a momentary overpressure of the interior would pop all those little dents out... No, I suppose not.:rolleyes:

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My estimate ended up at $2400 from the adjuster, but the shop said it would be more. I drop it off Monday, for hopefully a week. $100 deductible and comprehensive here as well.

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Don't worry, we already paid for it with our premiums. ;)

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Its too bad there isn't a local FIRST team in the area with loads of sheet metal experince that could help you out ;)

Here's hoping insurance is kind to you; when we walked back to the bus, we were looking at all the damage and cringing.

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who cares.... its a car/truck.....

let insurance take care of it..... if you don't have "comp" , then dent wizard works great..... as does dry ice and a torch, be careful if you've never done it before...

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Yes, but it's my wife's car. That makes a big difference.

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That makes all the difference. May she have mercy!

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When I wrecked my rental car in the lovely town of Speedway, Indiana after IRI 2010 (totaled the car that hit me, damaged two others, nearly totaled mine), the used car manager at work was of a mindset to Stillen.

But when Gary adds that little nugget of wisdom...I think someone's switching cars for a few days. ;)

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For everyone who was inside the dome during the storm, could you post the photos for all of us to see? I would love to see what was hitting the roof.

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I didn't have a car that got damaged, but we had to load the bus with the contents of our pit during the rain that came right after the hail.

With all the batteries and other equipment that doesn't like water, it was.. er.. "hail."