5th Gen Texas Hale Storm Damage Butthurt?

[RichinRidgewood]

How well does the 5th Gen handle the hale storms in Texas? Or anywhere for that matter?

How common are dented rooves, dented hoods, cracked glass (if it not already crack from road gravel) etc.

The insurance lady said to me “Hale in Texas is real”

Great. facepalm.

Many years a go I had a 1976 Pontiac in Michigan and we had a hale storm that made that car look like a golf ball hwell:

 

[DirtyMarcus]

theres no real answer to this. hail varies in size and varies by storm not by location. pea sized doesnt really do anything, marble sized may leave a ding or two, golf ball will cause several dents for sure, anything bigger is sure to damage the metal and possibly crack glass.

 

[mbm112]

About as bad as any other car. Maybe even worse due to the large surface area of the roof and hood.


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[mscot]

We get hail in CO throughout July. Mine is parked outside. No damage yet.
Just do not drive during a hail storm. My wife did it in her 2016 Tucson (that, thankfully, we were able to dump back on Hyundai - what a POS) - and she had to have a ton of work done after that. Like 12k worth.

 

[RunTheJoules]

How well does the 5th Gen handle the hale storms in Texas? Or anywhere for that matter?

How common are dented rooves, dented hoods, cracked glass (if it not already crack from road gravel) etc.

The insurance lady said to me “Hale in Texas is real”

Great. facepalm.

Many years a go I had a 1976 Pontiac in Michigan and we had a hale storm that made that car look like a golf ball hwell:

Seems to handle them pretty well..

Had a few golfballs coming from the sky a couple weeks ago and only found one dent on the roof and a tiny dent on the passenger side afterwards.

 

[Charles Bronson]

My wife's 2020 4Runner handled about 20 minutes of nickel to just under quarter size hail during a tornado in Wichita last month. This included driving at sub 50mph speeds too. No damage to report.

 

[Green Ghost]

Hail

It doesn't really matter what size your vehicle is - depends on size and quantity. My last truck (2006 Expedition) was parked outside in Colorado Springs (2016) when we had a bad hail storm (not that long, but seemed like forever) ping-pong/golf (maybe couple larger) - totaled due to dents that cracked the paint on the roof (ridges of roof design). Lots of dents and cracked windshield. Still drove it for another 3 years though. Hail is no joke - looked like a war zone in our neighborhood....

 

[1jzgte]

ohhhhhhhh hail naw!

 

[osugsxr]

We get hail in CO throughout July. Mine is parked outside. No damage yet.
Just do not drive during a hail storm. My wife did it in her 2016 Tucson (that, thankfully, we were able to dump back on Hyundai - what a POS) - and she had to have a ton of work done after that. Like 12k worth.

we are talking about TX hail not CO :lol:

 

[steanson]

Resurrecting this…EGG SIZED HAIL in the forecast!

I’m stuck parking outside, and they are saying egg to baseball sized hail possible. FML. Does anyone here in TX or in CO use a car cover? Seal Skin has one that appears to offer some protection. I wish I could find the photos of the ingenuity MacGyvering hail protection out of mattresses, pool floats, pillows, and my favorite…the roll up swim-noodle cover!

 

[Humble Leader]

the 5th gen has notoriously poor paint. anything more than the lightest rain will chip away at the paint lol. it also won't take much to crater that large roof as well

 

[Jetboy]

I’m stuck parking outside, and they are saying egg to baseball sized hail possible. FML. Does anyone here in TX or in CO use a car cover? Seal Skin has one that appears to offer some protection. I wish I could find the photos of the ingenuity MacGyvering hail protection out of mattresses, pool floats, pillows, and my favorite…the roll up swim-noodle cover!

Best bet is to find a place under an underpass or a big tree to hide - or a gas station, car wash, bank, or ??? If you know it's comming you might even be able to call around to local storage unit places or anywhere with a cover to see if you can rent a spot cheap for a day.

If that's not possible, a couple mattresses or even thick comforters/blankets on top will really help with the impacts. Space between the cover and vehicle is critical to damp the impacts. So a car cover plus pool noodles on the car under the cover probably would work great. Even spacing off with empty water bottles or anything would work. Hell, even something like a bale of straw spread out would work.

 

[CutthroatSlam]

Don’t worry, the dimples from the hail will act like dimples on a golf ball, resulting in a faster vehicle with better fuel economy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=0S-IqTBngzLnA_mG&v=VUiGhyHC-1A&feature=youtu.be

Red Green | When you put it that way... it starts to make sense...somehow.

Clip from S9E10: Roll Out the Barrels
#TheRedGreenShow #aerodynamics #golf... | Instagram

 

[Rick G.]

I’m retired, and typically stay pretty close to home with my T4R. If the weather is forecast to be wicked, ie including possible hail, I’ll either stay home, keeping the T4R garaged, or if I must venture out during a threatening weather forecast, I’ll resort to driving what I call my “beater” car, which is actually still quite a nice car, and I’d hate to get even it hail damaged- a 2016 Nissan Rogue. I live in central Texas hill country. Get a “beater” car to keep around if you’re worried about hail damage on your prize possession T4R.