Hail damage???

[JeffreyLebowski]

How much do dealers usually take off for hail damaged vehicles. I was looking at a 02 Dodge Ram last weekend and got him down to 17K. If they had a hail damaged truck, how much would they take off?

 

[amdskip]

how bad of damage?

 

[pyonir]

you planning on creating 'hail' or something?

 

[vi edit]

REally depends on how bad. I had 4 or 5 very little dings in the top and hood of my truck and it was put at $525. A co-worker had about 20 of them on the car and it was put at over $3000 worth of damage.

Really depends on how many dents, and how bad they are.

 

[Fraggle]

a guy that I was looking at buying a used MB from a while back said that it would be around $2,000 to work out the hail damage in the 560SL we were talking about... the damage was pretty significant: the hood was uniformly covered in a loose pattern of little dents that looked like they were made by hail about the size of large mothballs (no apparent paint damage, but I never saw the condition of the SL's hard top -- he met me with the soft top on it). he said that 2000 was quote he got from some shop to work out the dents "with a spoon", which may be a slang term or maybe really how it's done. anyway, this was an early 80's model car so the price for repairing hail damage to it may be drastically different from an '02 truck. and i didn't trust the guy enough to buy the car from him either, so this is all with a grain of salt.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

<< you planning on creating 'hail' or something? >>



Mother nature did that yesterday here in N. Texas. My current truck has a few small dings in it from the hail too :|

 

[pyonir]

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<< you planning on creating 'hail' or something? >>



Mother nature did that yesterday here in N. Texas. My current truck has a few small dings in it from the hail too :| >>


ouch! that sucks. yeah back in Minnesota we had a really nasty hail storm. my sister had a geo metro and they totaled it out! :Q