Preventing hail damage
 

Hail storms are right around the corner, Spring always brings them
in TX.

To help minimize/prevent hail damage I check weather watches and
warnings regularly. If a hail storm is probable I have my blankets ready
(in the back of the car, or where I can grab them quickly). I run out and
place the blankets over the car with the first sign of hail.

Any other ideas to prevent hail damage when covered parking is not an
option (at work for example)?

This is not a bad thread and it references a car cover company too: Is there a car cover that can prevent hail damage?

Thanks for the reference, I searched this site so I was surprised to see
this- but it's from another site : )

good thread, I am just north of you in Tulsa, She is always under garage but just in case I better be prepared if I am out somewhere

Kimberly-Clark made. Must be pretty good stuff. :tup: Thanks for posting.

WoW- $270.59!:

SKU Description Unit Price Quantity Order
C17117BK Cover: 2009 NISSAN 370Z TOURING Coupe (2 Door)/With Spoiler/2 Mirror Pockets/ Size G2 2 Mirror Pockets - Evolution® (Technalon®) - Blue Each 270.59

Not bad really, if you've priced some of the higher-end car covers this is reasonable.

thats amazing, never even knew those existed, we had one bad hail day here late last year and it destroyed 20% of the cars in the city, thank god I was out of town that day. I also live in an apartment w/o a car port, so this thing would definitely come in handy.

usually it gets pretty damn windy in hail storms so if you can put the blanket and a carcover over it, it would be best. probably best to have your friend or wife help you.

I sent this message (below) through the hailblankets.com website over
a week ago and haven't heard anything. Anybody know the answer?

"Hi,

After using the blanket, the blanket will be soaked and
will need to be washed and dried. What are the washing
and drying requirements for the hail blankets? Will I be
able to meet these requirements by using my home washer
and dryer?

Thanks in advance for your prompt reply,"

Still no answer from hailblankets.com concerning washing requirementst. If you use
the blanket to protect your car from hail you're going to have a soaking mess of a
blanket afterwords and your going to have to wash it. The question is, what are the
washing requirements (dry clean? machine wash ok?)?

Too bad hailblankets.com doesn't have a responsive customer service dept.
What about you guys, anybody here bought from hailblankets.com?

OKC got grapefruit size hail dumped on them yesterday afternoon/evening...

I don't think there's a blanket in the world that will protect your car from that =/

yah, at that size even my garage roof will fall apart. lol

My thought is that if you use a hail blanket,

1) You have to have it with you and your car
2) You have to put it on during the hail storm, which many times, only happens after it's already pretty damn bad out...and hail that hurts your car, will hurt you too...
3) All that water, mentioned in #2, will get all over you, and your car, since most people won't carry their hail blankets with them
4) I'm sure the hail blanket will scratch...
5) I'm sure the hail blanket, once soaked, will weigh a LOT, which means you won't be able to remove it, without scratching and getting it dirty and other crap in it.
6) While it's soaked, you won't want to put it in your Z, else it will in turn get soaked on the inside, moreso than even when you opened the rear hatch to pull out said blanket

or watch weather channel and not drive ur z into severe conditions...

If you live in an apartment without a garage your car is exposed.
I've got covered parking, but when it hails at an angle or bounces you
get damage (this happened to people in Austin from last year's two
huge hail storms)

Currently I have an old comforter and some blankets I put on the car at
the first sign of hail. I haven't had any damage with that approach, but
your left with soaked blankets. I just put them in the washing machine
and dryer. It would be cool to get one of these hail blankets because
they custom fit your car (only one blanket needed) and are designed to
minimize hail damage. But, there is no word from the company or
anybody that owns one on their washing care. If you had to dry clean
the thing it would be a pain in the butt and defeat the purpose

Anybody know about hailblankets.com? Used them? Spring=hail, would
be good to know if this is a good way to protect our cars

My question below about washing and cleaning hail blankets still has no
answer from the company, would be cool if someone here who's used
HailBlankets could let us know

my car got his last year.. 6800$ worth of damage, i was pissed. Insurance covered it but it took 2 months to get my car back and on my car fax it says 6800 claim.. which sucks.

Crap, this sucks bad. Trying to help us find something to avoid this.
I would just buy the hailblanket, but it's really $pricey so I wanted
to get some more info first

Well i dodged the bullet today in KS since i had just headed down to Houston for the weekend. However since i have NO options to garage my car or cover it up since i live in the barracks on Ft Riley ive decided to bite the bullet and get the cover, i figure it can only help. Ill post more when i get the cover in.

Got a call yesterday that it was hailing. Rushed to my car and put all the blankets in my house, while getting shot by hails. We had some really big grape size hail in Carrollton.

Woke up this morning and I had some hail damage in the roof and some major dents on trunk.

$275 is a small price to pay if those blankets actually work. That's cheaper than most quality car covers.

:iagree:

When's the order suppose to come in :)?

I am pretty sure that if you just have a decent car cover over while theres a hail storm, that should more than efficient to protect your car. Unless you get hella unlucky and have fist size hails raining at you. Just store your car in a garage...

The question is about re-usability of the hailcover (do you have to dry clean it or
can you just throw it in the washer, it will get used more than once and
will be a soaking mess after a storm)

4 weeks :( Loooong build time But the guy i emailed said it should take less :/

Can't wait to hear about what you think about it