Catastrophic Hail Damage: Will it be totaled?

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40Man said:
I had some hail damage on my old 200. Not nearly as many strikes, but a few good dings, mostly on the hood but a few random on the side panels. Thankfully was able to get home and park it in the garage mid-storm. My shop had a PDR expert that was able to get them all out. I'd like to see more detailed photos, but I agree with another poster that replacing the hood and putting on a full roof rack would do a lot, and see about some PDR on any other glaring side dings. Live with the few digs in the pillar you can't fix. Glad I don't live in hail country anymore.
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Hard to capture accurately in photos. I’d be shocked PDR will work on many of these dents with their location on thicker areas and lines.

Even if it did, on a per dent basis I bet there are 300-400 dents there. That’s a lot of labor. And it’s cracked the paint and several of them.

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Wow, that's pretty beat!
 
Sand, primer filler, Linex.
 
PDoyle said:
Sand, primer filler, Linex.
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that would not only be a pretty expensive solution in and of itself, it would reduce the value further, id imagine. I've linex'ed bumpers and fender flares on a 100 I had and on my 80, but I don't think I could like a full body linex.

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Sometimes it is kinda strange how the hail hits… like two years ago in August I also got into rly hard hail at my cottage with like bigger than golf ball big hail (roughly 60% of all cars in the area had to tape their rear windows after this…) and got like ~20 of the hail damage I see on your hood but it fully bursted my wipers and hit a 4cm big dent into the round corner of my rear hatch.

Sadly no idea what insurance says since I only insured my 200 at the minimum level that covers damage I cause on everything that isn’t my car (wich is the minimum by law you need to have here and still cost me €1400 a year….)
 
TheComedian said:
Sometimes it is kinda strange how the hail hits… like two years ago in August I also got into rly hard hail at my cottage with like bigger than golf ball big hail (roughly 60% of all cars in the area had to tape their rear windows after this…) and got like ~20 of the hail damage I see on your hood but it fully bursted my wipers and hit a 4cm big dent into the round corner of my rear hatch.

Sadly no idea what insurance says since I only insured my 200 at the minimum level that covers damage I cause on everything that isn’t my car (wich is the minimum by law you need to have here and still cost me €1400 a year….)
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Pricey. Liability only for my 200 is $312 a year. Full coverage is $690 a year.
 
ryanCA said:
Pricey. Liability only for my 200 is $312 a year. Full coverage is $690 a year.
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When I lived in hail country, my premiums for home and car were much higher. My 16 LC full coverage is $640 a year now. The advantage of hail country is roofs are always replaced under insurance. The disadvantage is you pay for it in premiums. My home in KC had the roof replaced a year before I bought it due to hail and replaced again 2 years later for the same. The crazy thing is some of my neighbors were untouched and others had massive damage.
 
Smaller than yours but had this come through a few years ago and zero damage.

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I repair trucks like this every year. The dents on the roof rails are repairable by PDR. This is probably a 15k or 20k repair based on very small picture group. New hood and some paint work based on broken paint. Repair alone will not dictate weather on not this truck is totaled. The major factor is the salvage value. This truck is likely to have a 20k to 30k salvage value. The salvage value of autos has sky rocketed the last 10 years. I have many of the cars estimated my me that are totaled because they are worth so much as to salvage auction. That truck would probably end up at Co-part and then purchased and sent out of country.

unfortunately having the car correctly fixed has nothing to do with salvage value as many of the cars totaled and sold through co-part are not repaired in the same manner as when you get it repaired by insurance at a body shop. There are 1000’s of backyard hole in the wall bodyshop factory being done in many areas with what I call 20 yard repair as in the work looks good from 20 yards away.

Bottom line is truck with the price of new cars many with this kind of damaged do often get repaired.

Again this is based on a very limited view of damage.
 
Golf balls are dimpled to fly through the air easier. Your modification seems to emulate that and might gain you some MPGs.



In all seriousness, that sucks.
 
ryanCA said:
Pricey. Liability only for my 200 is $312 a year. Full coverage is $690 a year.
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Where tf are you getting full coverage on a 200 series for $690 a year? Your profile says you live in LA too?

$690 is around what I pay for 6 months in LCOL Midwest 2013 LX. Went down from almost $1000 in Dallas. And my driving record is spotless for 7+ years.

To OP, sorry about the hail damage. That really is a bummer :(
 
AZLX570 said:
Where tf are you getting full coverage on a 200 series for $690 a year? Your profile says you live in LA too?

$690 is around what I pay for 6 months in LCOL Midwest 2013 LX. Went down from almost $1000 in Dallas. And my driving record is spotless for 7+ years.

To OP, sorry about the hail damage. That really is a bummer :(
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