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Originally Posted by v33vo
Friday night after visiting a friend, on my way home I felt a couple pieces of hail drop on my car. Quickly after that I tried driving to find an overpass but as soon as I moved 10ft hail of biblical proportion came down on my car. I couldn't do much but sit and listen to my car being destroyed by the hail for the next 10 minutes.
To me the car is essentially beat to hell, this is the first car that I've bought new, I drove beaters back then and only have liability insurance. This car has full coverage and I was wondering if any one here can offer me some tips to how to deal with the insurance company on this. Would this be considered totaled? I'd like to have it fixed but from what I heard from a friend, hail on a car's history is no bueno.
Alot of the damage could probably be fixed with paintless dent removal but there are spots like on the hood where the hail came down so hard it cracked the paint as you can see in the video.
I've already filed my claim online, so where do I go from here?
video of the damage, you might have to turn up the quality a bit to really see the extent of the hail damage
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geeeeez! what a f***kin' mess! "paper thin" mil thickness japanese recycled steel is your problem! they are an island nation,and are forced to import any and all iron from any source,melt it all down,to make sheet steel.it's all "recycled" and the "molecular" strength of the steel is compromised. this was the main reason why japanese cars rusted out so easily many years ago. today with the introduction of chemical sealants from the factory,most of that issue has gone away,however the compromised molecular strength of the sheet steel they use remains.as far as i know,they do not make their own steel it is all recycled from compromised iron.