Decided not to park under the trees in the driveway because of all the crap that falls off them.. so what happens.. it hails and I have no tree cover.

Here are some pics... there's also a big one near the rear antenna I couldn't get a good shot of in the sunlight. Some smaller ones on hood and other places as well... must've been big chunks of ice.. sure was loud overnight.

 

SHIT! How big was the hail?

I know u guys got an F4 Tornado lastnight but I guess as long as ur safe thats all that matters...

 

Man that is sad. A week ago sat. I covered my Fit with a tarp with shipping blankets underneath, all I could do. Of course there was no hail. Light hail this last sat, not covered. Don't know if it would have done any good with golf-ball size hail.

Please; let us know how Autopac handles this. Good luck.

 

dry-ice and some patience will do, and a big heavy duty glove.

 

Dry Ice? What's this? I'd like to learn more about this though... How do you do it? How's it work?

 

i was a bit hesitant at first but i tried it and well it did its job. you just buy a couple a pellets of dry-ice and well i just used a plastic bag, and you press the dry ice up against the dent with the bag as your barier, after repeating a couple of times the metal contracts and expands do to the tempurature until slowly popping out.

 

Awwww, that sucks man. I hate hail!!!!

That sounds like a pretty interesting restoration technique you have there!

 

well so far the autopac line has been busy the last 50 or so times I've tried.. guess I'm not the only one.. then there's the tornado damage they must be dealing with.

 

actually, the dry ice technique they are talking about is what a normal paintless dent removal guy will do. they will heat up the area then put dry ice on the outside so the dent will pop back out b/c metal has memory when first formed so it will go back 2 normal. but i don't recommend doing that if u've never done it before cuz u could damage ur paint.

 

Were you at the Red river ex? I had mine in the garage when that crazy storm was whipping through. I don't we even got hail in ft garry, just crazy winds and the pelting rain.

At least this hit south of us, this is a good link of the video of what hit south heh - Tornado Videos, Tornado Stock Footage, Storm Stock Videos

 

There's a video clip haw it works, on : "metacafe" Remove Car Dents With a Dry Ice Block

 

I used dry ice on a small dent my fit recieved during its time on the ship over here...it worked. BUT i wouldnt do it untill you research it, you can def. mess your paint up.

 

We had an F1 Tornado a few years ago that did over $1900.00 in cosmetic damage to my Ford Ranger. I parked the Fit in my garage last Friday because they were calling for small pea size hail. Hope you can get it repaired to look as good as new!

Cat :x

 

damn that sucks
can you get those dense fixed through warranty

 

that sucks so bad.hopefully you can get them pulled without to much trouble

 

I recently got $4500+ worth of hail damage (paintless dent removal for the most part) and no one else that was here on the lot (20 vehicles) received any damange. The body shop is connected to Honda delarship. The guy told me it was becasue of the metal in the Fit's body. I live in Kansas where it hails several times each summer. Hm

 

That bit about the metal used on the fit is probably true, there are 4-6 cars in a joined driveway and the Fit got by far the most and largest dents. A caravan got nothing to note.. others have 2-4 small dents at most.

Autopac is covering it but the paintless dent guys are saying the roof is "maybe" and may have to be repainted

 

Oy, sorry to hear about your damage! I'd be pissing and moaning like an impotent jerk! (Guess the movie? Anyone? ) Glad to hear insurance is covering it!

 

"...and then bend over and take it up the tailpipe!" Fletcher from the movie Liar Liar. YAY me!! hahaha. yeah, I'm a movie nerd...