I’m getting rid of my Accord in a few months and I’m trying to decide whether or not it’s worth it to repair some hailstone damage. I’ve got 6 or 8 small dings.
Anyone got any experience with this?
Isn’t it possible to sit the car in the sun on a hot day and put just-the-right-sized dry ice in the dents? For some reason I recall someone on this board having success doing that.
That’s just weird enough that I can’t quite decide if you’re pulling my leg or not…
I’ve heard of it. There was a HUGE hail storm in my college town in 2004. There were glass repair stations set up in literally every large parking lot. One of the advertised methods was to put your car in a giant “oven”, and then cool the area around the dents. “Paintless” dent removal was one of the marketing slogans for this and other methods.
My truck looked like a golf ball after the storm, with a modest estimate of 250 dents. Luckily, the insurance cut me a check for more than I owed on my Dakota, and I drove it around for the next 3 years. It wasn’t worth it to repair, sorry I don’t have more info for you.
I had major hail damage a few years back (watched baseballs bounce off my car - yowch!).
The repairs would have been several thousand dollars. Even though the car was completely covered with dings, you couldn’t really see them unless you practically laid on the car for a horizontal view.
Only a few dings wouldn’t be nearly as expensive, but unless they’re really obvious, I’d question the value. If I’m buying a used car, I usually expect a few small dings.
(Since I wasn’t going to sell my car, I just had the insurance check applied to my car loan. I couldn’t cash the check without proof of repair, but my bank was perfectly happy to apply it to my loan.)
The dry ice thing was weird enough I had to Google it. The general online consensus seems to be that it doesn’t work.