Some areas of the country are obviously much more prone to hail damage than others. You can see this quickly by just turning on the weather Channel and looking for where the most severe thunderstorms or super cells as they are commonly referred to exist more frequently. This would of course be the areas including Dallas and Houston Texas and the rest of the Midwest where tornadoes are more frequent than anywhere else. Super cells which commonly sprout tornadoes and large hail are more common in the Midwest than anywhere else. However this does not mean that you will not see hail in Maryland, Florida or California.
Virtually every state in the United States has had and experienced hail producing storms. It doesn't matter if the hail is the size of a softball or if it is the size of a pea. All hail causes damage. Obviously some of it from softball size hail is far more serious than that from smaller hail like that of the size of a pea or a penny. The larger hail tends to cause damage that can be so severe to a vehicle that you probably are looking at replacement rather than trying to fix it. For those hail storms with normal quarter sized and smaller hail you will tend to find many little ripples or dings in the sheet metal of your car.
This hail damage is usually more frequent on the hood, roof and trunk sections of the vehicle. If you were to go to a traditional body shop you would probably pay an arm and a leg to get it fixed. In most innovative pieces this is not necessary and you do not need to repaint the vehicle. A process commonly referred to as PDR, or paintless dent removal, can just as easily remove the same hail damage and make it look like it was never there or that it had never occurred.
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Another great thing about paintless dent removal is that because you're not standing painting in treating the metal you save a great deal. Instead a trained PDR technician will use metal cars and similar tools to massage out the hail damage leaving straight finish like there was before the hail damage occurred. Now you can use the national and local franchises which tend to charge $35-$95 per dent removed. Now in the case of hail damage or you have many little dents they tend to give a lower bulk price which can usually be in the neighborhood of $250 - $400 to treat the entire car.
You can save significantly by looking up paintless dent repair technicians on your local craigslist. For instance, if you are from San Francisco or Los Angeles California, you just go and look up your local craigslist and then go to the automotive services and in the search box type in dent removal. I just looked at the San Francisco Bay Area automotive services section and there are literally hundreds if not thousands of people offering these PDR or Paintless dent removal services that will also treat hail damage.
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Obviously you need to call several of them because the prices range vastly and some are of course nationwide companies advertising on their and others' are local technicians looking to do extra work on the side. Obviously these are the ones that you want because they will charge you far less than the nationwide companies. If you price it around you can probably get it down to $150 or so which is a decent price to fix hail damage. So that means that when you get the insurance check for let's say $1500 (which is the average amount assigned to hail damage from insurance adjusters nationwide) you can now put a good portion of that in your pocket for other things rather than just giving it to the shop and then some. You shouldn't have to pay more than a few hundred dollars for hail damage that can be repaired by paintless dent removal.
While you're looking into fixing the hail damage or dents and dings on your car another great tip is to be sure and take a look at your headlight lenses. Are they clearer and new looking or are they foggy, cloudy and ugly looking? If they are the latter, this condition will actually limit light output and can cause a dangerous situation when driving at night. Limited light output from your headlights has been attributed as one of the leading causes of serious and fatal nighttime driving accidents. They are also extremely ugly at the same time. Instead of expensive replacements, you can now restore your headlights to brand-new condition with a New Lite headlight restoration kit from MDWholesale.com (New Lite is the number one selling and most trusted headlight cleaning kit from Florida to California). So if you have cloudy headlights go order a kit now and clean them up today.
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Article provided by MDWholesale.com headlight cleaner, a website devoted to automotive safety.
More great paintless dent removal and similar automotive related articles and content you will definitely want to check out:
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2) Paintless dent repairs and what you need to know
3) Save big money with paintless dent repair
4) California paintless dent repair (PDR)
5) How to get that new car shine
6) Cleaning foggy headlights
7) Using Google to save big on auto parts
8) Classic car restoration
9) Craigslist car repairs and saving money
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