Hail damage is caused from freak hail storms where the hailstones are so large, they cause severe damage to a vehicles panels. A car can be struck by hundreds of hail stones impacting every panel on the vehicle, causing small dents throughout the entire vehicle. Usually one side of the vehicle facing the wind will be struck the most, but the roof, roof rails and bonnet will take the brunt of the damage.

Large hail stone damage to cars happens all around Europe with France, Spain and Germany some of the main countries to be affected. There needs to be special conditions for sizeable hail to be formed, a mixture of rain with hot and cold temperatures together is required, in order to create large enough hail stones to cause damage to vehicle panels. Rain drops are pushed up by hot air rising to meet colder air where they freeze and start to fall but the hot air pushes them up again where they grow in size until eventually falling causing damage.

In Ireland, these type of large hailstones are extremely rare so its unlikely your car will be damaged from our hailstones here, which are usually only about the size of peas. But where we have had to repair hail damaged cars in Ireland before, was when people had driven their cars over to Europe and got caught in hail storms.

If this happens to you, we can repair your hail damage with paintless dent repair. This is the preferred repair method by car manufacturers, insurance companies, car dealerships and bodyshops for hail repair. It restores a vehicle to its original factory condition, keeping the manufacturers paint warranty and maintaining the vehicles original paint finish.

​If you suffer hail damage to your vehicle, get in touch and we can arrange repairing your vehicle with our Paintless Dent Repair methods.