What is hail damage with broken paint?
Cracked or chipped paint takes those dents out of the paintless option. Paintless repair relies on the paint flexing as the metal is pushed back. Cracked paint will not flex, it opens further. What keeps this small is that only one or two panels are involved.
What kind of repair does it need?
Paintless repair on the dents where the paint held. Conventional repair and painting on the panels where it did not. A car like this often needs both.
Two trades on one car. Dents with good paint are priced by count and access. Panels with broken paint are priced as paint work. This size of damage is not a write-off question.
What to do next
Have a paintless specialist look first. They will tell you how many dents can come out without paint. Only the rest needs painting. Ask for that split plainly. At this size, a write-off is not on the table.
Sources
- EZ Tech PDRrepairer
the paint film must remain flexible…
- Dent Detail PDRrepairer
PDR cannot repair impacts where the paint has been cracked or broken by the force of a particularly large or fast-moving hailstone.
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