VIP Hail Service
Automotive Hail Repair Blog
Our mission (other than repairing hail damage) is to inform you with relevant, factual and accessible content about automotive hail damage repair and paintless dent removal. If your vehicle is ever ravaged by a hail storm, you’ll find everything you need to know before having the hail damage repaired. Speak with a certified technician for a quick response.
What To Do If Your Vehicle Has Hail Damage
This article will provide an actionable guide on what to do if your vehicle has hail damage. Having dozens of dents on your vehicle can be rather intimidating, that is until you realize how fast and affordable it can be to have them repaired. VIP Hail Service has 30 years of experience in easing our customer’s minds when hail hits close to home.
As the storm clouds fade and hail stones lay dormant after an epic battle with your vehicle; you step out to find what seems like a victory for Mother Nature. You should first take a quick inventory of the damages looking for things like broken glass, the relative size and quantity of dents in preparation for the important call to your auto insurance provider. Filing a hail damage claim soon after the storm ensures you get the most out of the claim and your car back looking as good as new in a matter of days.
Things to Know Before Automotive Hail Damage Repair
Everything to know before automotive hail damage repair; starting with paintless dent removal (PDR). If you have any knowledge of PDR you are one step ahead! It’s the trusted and preferred method to repair hail damage. Technicians will often gain access behind the dents and use special rods to push them back to the original shape. Hail damage used to be such a hassle that we built a business around repairing the damages it causes to local residents’ vehicles every year. In 92′ when VIP Hail Service first opened, hail damage was feared in a financial sense.
Everything to know before automotive hail damage repair; starting with paintless dent removal (PDR). If you have any knowledge of PDR you are one step ahead! It’s the trusted and preferred method to repair hail damage. Technicians will often gain access behind the dents and use special rods to push them back to the original shape. Hail damage used to be such a hassle that we built a business around repairing the damages it causes to local residents’ vehicles every year. In 92′ when VIP Hail Service first opened, hail damage was feared in a financial sense.People had very few options for trust worthy hail repairs and there was rarely ever deductible assistance or deductible-free hail repair that’s offered today. Paintless dent removal wasn’t as prevalent of a service then, leading to more hail damaged cars being sent to body shops for traditional repairs, where the damage and repair was reported on the title or worse, the vehicle could be totaled completely in the eyes of insurance.
The History of Paintless Dent Repair
Hail Repair Origins – The History of Paintless Dent Repair
Paintless dent repair techniques would make the first public display on record at the 1960 ‘International Motor Sports Show’ in New York by Oscar Flaig of Mercedes-Benz. Mending malleable metals into a desired shape or design as an art form dates back to the 3rd century B.C. Metals such as Gold, Silver, Copper and Tin were used along with techniques called repoussé and chasing.
These are the earliest documented terms for methods in metalworking where a metal is shaped by hammering from the back side to create the design. Chasing, later termed embossing, is a similar technique often used in conjunction with repoussé where hammering occurs from the front side to sink the metal; both of which are still heavily used in paintless dent repair and hail repair today.
Written By: Josh C.
Josh enjoys marketing for paintless dent removal companies and writing content that leads you to the best PDR shops around.
Written By: Josh C.
Josh enjoys marketing for paintless dent removal companies and writing content that leads you to the best PDR shops around.
