One of.our local members cars picked up some pretty heavy hailstone damage recently, first opportunity to see the car in the flesh today.. stuff of nightmares 
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Scary!
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I wondered what you were all looking at. 
My Alfa Romeo 147 was basically written off (if I bothered to claim) in 2012 during a big storm. Every panel was damaged, even the A-piller. I had to stand there and watch it happen (got the other cars put away in time). I gave it away to my sister-in-law; my brother was in Afghanistan, and her own car was falling part. The Alfa ran fine.
Later, I brought a MX-5 that had been through the same storm.
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Oddly enough my late cousinâs Alfa was written off by a monster hailstorm in Brisbane . Mind you , Australian storms can be apocolyptic .
My Sport Black was subject to a French hailstorm in 2014, prior to me owning it.
The then owner took it to his Mazda garage for repair, saw the newly launched ND sitting in the showroom and purchased it!
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That sounds like one of those âmeant to beâ things.
I didnât know any of this, until I was in the car park at Blakeney Point 4 years ago.
A lady came over to me and said it was her husbandâs car from new and she wished he had never sold it.
A sheepish looking bloke appeared and looked longingly at his old car and said if I ever thought about selling it, then let him knowâŠâŠ..
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Thatâs quite sad really, and suggests that heâs not happy with the ND. 
Said he never got on with itđ€·ââïž
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Thoughts go out to the owner whoâs car suffered that damage. Like was said, stuff of nightmares. Hope it all works out positively.
My long departed B-in L in Victoria Australia had to watch his top of range Bathurst Spec. Holden Supercharged V8 ( 1 years old) getting systematically beaten to death in his drive. Fairâs fair, it was written off tute suite and replaced pretty quick. After that he cleared the garage and in the new one went. His Missis said nothingâŠdespite nagging him for years to clear it he was in enough pain.
The ice stones were like golf ballsâŠ.really serious stuff.
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Our 1951/2 Morris Minor was caught in a tropical hailstorm in 1963.
No dents, but very sharp 3/8" hailstones for about an hour over lunch took much of the remaining black paint and red primer off the roof and bonnet.
It was my introduction to prep and paint without access to any form of spray, no rattle can, no compressor, and cellulose just hated tropical heat, on some cars dark paint curled up and peeled off in the first summer, others it simply flaked away.
Weâd always thought the car got too hot in the tropical sunshine, so while Dad was far, far away in UK Mum decided she would make the little black troglodyte (Dadâs name for it) blossom into a Dulux mushroom.
Primer x2, topcoat x4, all coats rubbed down and brushed again with progressively thinner coats. No brush marks.
Not as many coats as RR, but with that ancient Dulux âAll-weatherâ solvent-based paint the thinners was much less helpful than the quick drying acetone for cellulose.
We sold it for a profit six months later after five years ownership, it seemed everyone wanted a Minor Mushroom, the weedy engine and lack of effective brakes were not significant; âThose are fixableâ.
But we already knew it was past it, because when I did the top-end decoke we saw the pistons could be wiggled in the bores by a couple of mm, and seasoned mechanic Mum said âWe better sell this quick before it costs real moneyâ.
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Have a word with your local dent master, we had a forecourt full of cars subjected to this type of damage, most of them were repaired without having to be painted.
Itâs awesome what they can do for you
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