Hail

After a record drought, my Taco got hailed on today. 2 visible dings in the hood and a couple in the roof. Whacha think - is a $500 deductible worth it? I assume fixing it is a good idea to maintain the value of my truck, a 2010 with 20K miles.

If I go to a dealer for a quote, are they going to do paintless repair? If not and I get a whole new hood, I'll have to think about if I want a sport hood mebbe. I don't think I do, but it'd be worth the consideration.

 

Post pics let us see. Id say for only four dings id just wear it with pride. when its time to sell you can tell them its been through hail and back...literally. Boom

 

Pics would be pretty anemic - white is about the best color to hide hail.

 

Just didn't know if they were bad enough to see in the pictures...up to you really. one of my other cars was in a hail storm but I didn't feel it bothered me enough. 500 could go towards another mod. Lol

 

Try this first. I've done it when we've gotten hail and if it doesn't work you're out 20 bucks if you have to buy a blow dryer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILVWPzO_swY

 

I've never seen that work for hail. It's for wide, shallow dents with no crease or dimple in the metal. Hail = tiny, sharp dimple dents.

 

Camera man is holding on to a can oh Busch. Good times

 

Roy (rmWise1) over here in Wichita had the same thing happen to him earlier this summer, he talked about it on the thread...let me find it for ya

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/mid-west/128528-wichita-kansas-139.html

He chimes in at post #2771

 

It's worked for me a couple of times. If it's on the hood why not just push it out with your hand? The little heat shield isn't hard to remove.

 

paintless dent repair is really cheap, i remember years ago they used to have specials at the dealer, 3 dents for $40

 

Dry ice it! I had a storm in April of last year 10 k of damage to my truck 30 to the house. The repair shop changed just about every body panel. It is perfect now.

 

Hah, that's my video. I'm e-famous.

 

I had 36 dings from hail on my Scion and it was the insurance quoted $1600 to fix it so i doubt 4 will be more than $500.