My suggestion would be that your son's car is the one outside. I can understand the wife but not the kid.
That was my first thought too! I love my kids, which is why I think it's important they learn early that RHIP.
Or at least get a carport so it is in out of the weather.
I looked at that one ALOT, and was strongly thinking about it, but in Texas with heavy storms we often get power outages, and if that happens then that bubble deflates...
I'm sure you are more than happy about getting your BS back.Hey guys, been awhile. I wanted to follow back up and close the loop on this one.
In short, my car is fixed up and looking brand new. If I could leave some advice to anyone who was in my situation: stay calm, be patient, and talk to a couple of different shops. Even after literally every body panel on my car needed repair, everything ended up looking great and flush. Take a breath, even if you have to go the conventional repair route, your car is still going to look just great (another piece of advice is to never listen to anyone on a forum, but that's neither here nor there).
After contacting multiple shops, I went with a smaller repair shop in the Houston area on a friend's recommendation. The shop is Refined Collision and the owner, Ali, was very knowledgable on hail repair and even spotted tiny dents that I couldn't, even after I had looked at the car 10 times over.
They (and I) initially wanted to go the PDR route, but after taking the car to a PDR shop in Houston, the PDR techs weren't confident that they'd be able to get most of the dents out based on their severity, location, and quantity. Several, if not most of the dents on my car had creased from the impact and a lot were in angled places on the vehicle that would be impossible to get right again.
Thus, conventional repair and part replacement was the route we took and while I was hesitant, I'm overall very happy with the results. We both agreed that no matter what, neither of us wanted to replace the roof on a unibody (even though insurance approved the costs to do so). Thus, I gave full blessing to body-filler the hell out of the roof even if the end result wasn't going to be as perfect as the rest of the car. In the end, the roof looks phenomenal. If you have a good eye for it, you could spot that it's been worked on by the most minor reflections in the paint but I'd say it looks like I have a brand new roof.
Total repair cost: $11,500(plus $250 to retint the windshield)
Total amount of dents: indeterminable. We counted the ones on my hood and it was over 300 on that panel alone
Replaced parts: Hood, rear liftgate, driver roof rail, windshield, third brake light
Repaired parts: Literally everything else. PDR on the less-severe ones, but bondo on most of the driver's side.
Painted parts: Entire car was repainted.
Repair time: 2 months
Satisfaction: achieved
Thanks for reading
Hey guys, been awhile. I wanted to follow back up and close the loop on this one.
In short, my car is fixed up and looking brand new. If I could leave some advice to anyone who was in my situation: stay calm, be patient, and talk to a couple of different shops. Even after literally every body panel on my car needed repair, everything ended up looking great and flush. Take a breath, even if you have to go the conventional repair route, your car is still going to look just great (another piece of advice is to never listen to anyone on a forum, but that's neither here nor there).
After contacting multiple shops, I went with a smaller repair shop in the Houston area on a friend's recommendation. The shop is Refined Collision and the owner, Ali, was very knowledgable on hail repair and even spotted tiny dents that I couldn't, even after I had looked at the car 10 times over.
They (and I) initially wanted to go the PDR route, but after taking the car to a PDR shop in Houston, the PDR techs weren't confident that they'd be able to get most of the dents out based on their severity, location, and quantity. Several, if not most of the dents on my car had creased from the impact and a lot were in angled places on the vehicle that would be impossible to get right again.
Thus, conventional repair and part replacement was the route we took and while I was hesitant, I'm overall very happy with the results. We both agreed that no matter what, neither of us wanted to replace the roof on a unibody (even though insurance approved the costs to do so). Thus, I gave full blessing to body-filler the hell out of the roof even if the end result wasn't going to be as perfect as the rest of the car. In the end, the roof looks phenomenal. If you have a good eye for it, you could spot that it's been worked on by the most minor reflections in the paint but I'd say it looks like I have a brand new roof.
Total repair cost: $11,500(plus $250 to retint the windshield)
Total amount of dents: indeterminable. We counted the ones on my hood and it was over 300 on that panel alone
Replaced parts: Hood, rear liftgate, driver roof rail, windshield, third brake light
Repaired parts: Literally everything else. PDR on the less-severe ones, but bondo on most of the driver's side.
Painted parts: Entire car was repainted.
Repair time: 2 months
Satisfaction: achieved
Thanks for reading
